Posted on 12/03/2022 3:24:41 PM PST by bitt
About 200 people in Paradise, Texas, searched for Athena Strand for three days. The authorities said she was taken near her home on Wednesday and found dead on Friday.
A search for a missing 7-year-old Texas girl ended with the discovery three days later of her body and a FedEx contract driver being charged in her kidnapping and killing, the authorities said on Friday.
The search for the girl, Athena Strand, began on Wednesday in Paradise, Texas, about 40 miles northwest of Fort Worth. Nearly 200 volunteers and numerous law enforcement agencies, using dogs and a helicopter with thermal imagining, participated in the search.
Her body was found on Friday but the authorities declined to specify where.
The authorities identified the FedEx driver as Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, and said he had been charged with aggravated kidnapping and capital murder of a person under 10 years old.
The authorities said that Mr. Horner did not know the family or the girl and that Athena had been taken from near her home. The Wise County sheriff, Lane Akin, said that Mr. Horner confessed to killing the girl and said the authorities believed that she had been killed within an hour of being abducted. They declined to specify how she died or what led them to believe that she died within an hour of her abduction.
“It’s been a really, really tough few days and I’m really proud of the people here who helped us get some resolution, to get some understanding to provide answers for the families,” Sheriff Akin said during a news conference on Friday.
The authorities said that Athena had stepped off her school bus and arrived home in Paradise on Wednesday around 4:15 p.m. Officials did not specify if anyone was home at the time.
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Get a rope...do him ASAP.
Flay his carcass and dip him in rock salt.
Most criminals don’t kidnap children w/ rape & murder ever either.
Pedophiles don’t start stealing gum, then watches, then autos, then child rape & murder...
Makes sense.
Precious little girl. Just sickening.
I’d pay $10,000 for the privilege of buying the executioner a beer. Dead serious too.
No one claimed most do this or that or what percentage.
Kids come up dead all the time. Turn on your TV. Even the lying posers on the tube will tell ya all about it with a wink and a gleam in their eye.
Btw, one can be a pedophile and also commit violent armed robbery, murder etc. C’mon.
Build the gallows. Hang him in the town square. Drag his corpse out of town by the rope with a horse. Leave ‘em for the birds and worms.
This is beyond horrifying. Put this guy in a glass tray and slowly raise the level of hydrochloric acid seeping into the tray. Slowly, slowly. And be sure to laugh at his screams. Tell him Hell will like that, but worse.
He had no record. He was likely thinking of doing something like this for a long time.
Pedophiles and regular street criminals aren’t wired the same.
C’mon yourself.
In Old Yeller, Travis had to shoot his dog because the dog was infected with rabies and would have killed his family if turned loose. God created man and some of those men, like Old Yeller, get wires crossed in their head.
Like Old Yeller, in this 22nd year of the 21st century, those men and women who harm kids in what we call “our society” must be disposed of permanently, finally and quickly by “our society”. Anything less makes “our society” equally as guilty.
I get that, but it still means zip. It's why there will be a conga line of investigators, cops and court appointed whatevers, lawyers etc, looking at the dirt under this guys fingernails and checking his history. To see if there are any other victims out there or try to establish if this was just a one off. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
He never got caught before.
As a grandmother of a 7 year old girl, I have to admit I have no words to describe my feeling on such a heinous crime. What is going through my head as to what I would do........
Yeah, I suspect there is a long list of criminal actions in his past. He was just never caught. By the time they run his DNA through tests with previous crime scene evidence, and performed a forensic search of his electronics, we will probably find he has done this before.
I think I hear the Mariana Trench calling.
Naw, ten feet of water will do it. There aren’t enough millstones for the need so reuse will be easier at ten feet to retrieve the tools. And the surface is still visible but beyond reach for the perp.
So horrific, prayer for her family.
That poor girl.
May God rest her soul.
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