BURLINGTON, VT — In a dramatic development in the death of 27-year-old Anna Kepner, federal agents have confirmed the discovery of a second phone hidden inside her cabin — a device unknown to local police and never logged in the original evidence report.
The phone, found behind a false panel beneath a built-in storage shelf, contained only one accessible file: a 4-minute, 09-second audio recording timestamped less than two hours before Anna was declared dead.
According to a senior federal source familiar with the case, what was captured on that recording has “completely changed the direction of the investigation.”
“Nothing about this call sounds accidental,” the source said. “It’s not a goodbye call. It’s not a confession. It’s something else entirely — like she knew she was being watched.”
WHAT’S ON THE RECORDING
Officials have not released the full transcript, but a highly placed investigator confirmed the following disturbing details:
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Anna can be heard moving around the cabin, whispering as if trying not to be overheard
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She mentions a name not previously connected to the case
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At one point she says: “If they come in, pretend I never found it.”
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In the final 30 seconds, a second voice appears in the background — barely audible, distorted by distance
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The recording ends abruptly with the sound of something falling and Anna gasping
Federal analysts are currently enhancing the audio to isolate the second voice, which one agent described as “male, low, and calm — too calm.”
A PHONE NOBODY KNEW EXISTED
The existence of a hidden second phone raises even more questions about the timeline and circumstances of Anna’s death, which was originally ruled accidental but is now being investigated as a homicide.
Why was the device concealed?
Who was Anna planning to speak to — or hiding from?
And why did someone go to such lengths to ensure this phone was never found?
FAMILY REFUSES COMMENT, BUT NEIGHBOR SPEAKS OUT
Anna’s parents have declined to comment since the discovery, but her neighbor — the same woman who recently spoke about the condition in which Anna’s body was found — said she is “not surprised at all.”
“Anna told me once, ‘If something happens to me, check the walls.’ I thought she was being dramatic. Now I wish I had listened.”
INVESTIGATION EXPANDS
Sources confirm the FBI is now tracking down anyone who may have been in contact with Anna through encrypted apps or burner numbers. Investigators are also seeking records of a package reportedly delivered to her cabin three days before she died, addressed with no return label.
The lead agent summed it up in one chilling sentence:
“This was never a simple death. Someone wanted her silenced — and she knew it.”
