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Former FedEx driver Tanner Horner was sentenced to death after pleading guilty to capital murder in the 2022 abduction and killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand in Paradise, Texas. Jurors found he posed a continuing threat to society, and testimony including an hour-long audio recording from inside his delivery van depicted the crime and the victim’s final moments.
A former FedEx driver, Tanner Horner, was sentenced to death for the 2022 capital murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand after abducting her from her Paradise, Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift; jurors found he posed a continuing threat to society, and evidence included audio from inside his delivery van showing Athena’s desperate pleas and his threats before her death from blunt force trauma and suffocation.
A Texas jury sentenced ex-FedEx delivery driver Tanner Horner to death after he pleaded guilty to capital murder and aggravated kidnapping in the 2022 killing of seven-year-old Athena Strand; jurors heard an audio recording of her final moments inside his delivery vehicle, and Horner will be executed by lethal injection on a yet-to-be-determined date.
A Fort Worth jury sentenced former FedEx driver Tanner Horner to death after he pleaded guilty to capital murder in the 2022 killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand in Paradise, Texas. The punishment followed a month of testimony and audio/video from inside Horner’s delivery van that captured Athena’s final moments. Investigators say she died from blunt-force injuries with suffocation and strangulation; the case was moved to Fort Worth to ensure a fair trial. Horner was found to remain a continuing threat to society.
A former FedEx driver, Tanner Horner, was sentenced to death for the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand in Paradise, Texas. Horner pleaded guilty to capital murder as his trial began, and jurors heard audio from inside his delivery van showing Athena’s final moments. The case found he would be a continuing threat to society, rejecting a life-without-parole sentence. Athena died from blunt force injuries with smothering/strangulation after being taken during a Christmas delivery; the defense argued factors like pregnancy-related issues, autism, and lead exposure, but the jury upheld the death penalty.
A Wise County, Texas jury sentenced Tanner Horner to death for the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand, finding him a continuing threat to society with no mitigating circumstances. The verdict followed a month-long trial featuring emotional testimony from Athena's family and extensive closing arguments from both sides, with an automatic appeal to follow.
A Tarrant County jury sentenced Tanner Horner to death for the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand after he pleaded guilty; the sentencing phase featured emotional testimony from Strand’s parents and experts, with prosecutors urging the death penalty and the defense seeking life without parole. Horner will be held in Tarrant County before transfer to the Texas Department of Corrections, and Strand’s family delivered a powerful impact statement.
In Fort Worth, a judge paused Tanner Horner’s murder trial for several days to conduct Daubert hearings on defense expert witnesses, delaying proceedings as the defense seeks to counter potential death-penalty eligibility after Horner’s guilty plea to kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Athena Strand.
Security footage shown in a Fort Worth courtroom shows 34-year-old FedEx driver Tanner Horner cleaning the van used to abduct and murder 7-year-old Athena Strand in Paradise, Texas, on Nov. 30, 2022; prosecutors say he killed Strand after hitting her with the van, then dumped her body in a creek. Horner has admitted to the murder, claiming it was a panic after the collision, and jurors are deciding whether his sentence will be death or life in prison.
A Texas murder case centers on ex-FedEx driver Tanner Horner, who pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old Athena Strand in 2022 and told investigators that his alter ego, “Zero,” took over during the crime, which he described as a nightmare; Strand was abducted from outside her home, strangled, dumped in the back of Horner’s truck, and later disposed of in a river as prosecutors allege, with the defense and court filings highlighting Horner’s split personality claim.
A former FedEx driver, Tanner Horner, pleaded guilty to murdering 7-year-old Athena Strand after delivering a Christmas gift to her Texas home; prosecutors say he strangled her in a panic after an initial claim of accidentally striking her, with evidence including DNA under her fingernails and video of the attack, and jurors will decide whether he receives the death penalty or life in prison.