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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On another thread today a mob is angry about the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till.
For this terrible crime which took a 7 year old girl-——nothing.
RE: This guy had no prior criminal record. It’s puzzling.
Can’t locate a good source any longer but I used to have a figure from a police official on the estimated average number of crimes committed by a criminal before their first arrest.
Maybe “sealed” and “expunged” juvenile court offenses? Or women terrified to cross him in court?
Bad people are everywhere and can be anywhere. The problem is they don’t wear big signs that say “I’m a bad person”.
You have to be very careful. ALWAYS. No matter where you live, no matter the time of day, no matter if you are a guy or a gal.
This is a heinous and frightening crime. I worry a lot, I think I worry too much. Then something like this happens and I say: nope, I don’t worry enough!
I’d gladly pay for the privilege of putting that animal down myself.
I’m damn serious, too.
You have FR Mail...
***. lynching of Emmett Till. ****
Agitation movie driving POC crazy.
There will be no good relations as long as Socialists continue to divide us.
Common ground is shrinking.
Everything is splitting. Churches for one.
Biden may want to appoint him to some high gov’t position.
That vile creature definitely had a preference look for his victims.
The young girl looks actually close enough to be viewed as a younger sister of f he 16 year old he is alleged to have raped.
He is truly vile.
Emit Till was accused, lied about, tortured and killed by Democrats. The killers were Democrats, and the judge and jury that let them walk were Democrats.
He waas an aspiring rapper. Amazing.
He's a Biden?
There is no up side to this.
Fed Ex will pay big.And they should.
Make them hurt bad for unleashing demon spawn into neighborhoods where the defense-less little girl lived.
Question: What other unmentionable acts did this demon commit as he went about his daily rounds.
Guys like this you burn at the stake in public.
when do we start stringing these pukes up immediately
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article269550197.html
Per the above...
Appears he had no prior record in only a couple of counties.
Appears...In a few counties.
That means bugger all.
He was a contract worker.
Whoever hired this guy is in some deep doo doo if the perp should have flunked a background check.
A thousand cuts one day at a time
True.
Sen. Robert Byrd had the distinction of being an honored official of the Ku Klux Klan and later of the Democrat Party, with the gushing Hillary Clinton and others hugging his waist in happy photos.
Thank you for the article link on this creature.
Between the lines about “warning about him for years” was probably that the police said “we know it looks bad but we can’t do anything until he commits the crime.” Then it’s a matter of paperwork of reports about the crime scene.
Of course not. She's white.
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