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Teen pleads not guilty to raping, murdering stepsister on Miami-bound cruise

Sixteen-year-old Timothy Hudson did not appear in Miami federal court on Wednesday to answer to charges that he raped and murdered his stepsister on a cruise bound for South Florida. Instead, he entered a written not guilty plea.

Teen suspect in stepsister’s cruise ship death says he doesn’t remember anything, documents say

A 16-year-old boy being investigated in the death of his stepsister on a Carnival cruise ship last month has no recollection about what happened, according to text message exchanges between his parents filed in a custody court case in Florida.