The harrowing details surrounding the abduction and murder of seven-year-old Athena Strand by a FedEx driver have been revealed during court proceedings, painting a chilling picture of an innocent life cut short during a routine delivery. Tanner Horner, 34, entered a guilty plea to capital murder and aggravated kidnapping on April 7, immediately before his trial was scheduled to commence. Horner had been delivering a package containing a Barbie doll—destined to be Athena’s Christmas gift—when he struck the young girl with his delivery van outside her father’s home in Paradise, Texas, on November 30, 2022. While Horner later claimed to...
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