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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He should be hanged by his testicles.
You’re welcome.
Agree....what a sickening situation....to have to wait....until a creep like this gets caught committing actual crimes (even though previous reports of sexual assault!!), to keep tabs on him.
Sad, all the way around.
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