Tanner Horner pleads guilty to the 2022 murder of Athena Strand

In November 2022, 34-year-old FedEx driver Tanner Horner abducted and murdered seven-year-old Athena Strand in North Texas. The incident occurred while Horner was at the victim's residence to deliver a package containing a doll. Just before the start of his trial, Horner pleaded guilty to capital murder. During court proceedings, prosecutors presented a photograph taken from a vehicle camera shortly after the abduction, which showed the child standing behind the driver's seat. This evidence contradicted Horner's initial claims that he had accidentally hit the child with his delivery truck and subsequently strangled her to dispose of the body. He now faces legal consequences for these actions as the trial concludes.