Tanner Horner was sentenced to death on May 5, over three years after killing 7-year-old Athena Strand Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

A former FedEx driver pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing a 7-year-old girl after delivering what would have been her Christmas gift, but the prosecution and defense told conflicting stories ...

A Texas jury has sentenced former FedEx driver Tanner Horner, 34, to death for the kidnapping and murder of seven-year-old Athena Strand in November 2022. Horner had pleaded guilty to capital murder ...

Tanner Horner has been sentenced to death for the murder of Athena Strand. A North Texas jury took the decision on the brutal 2022 crime. The former FedEx driver had earlier pled guilty to murdering ...

A former delivery driver has been sentenced to death for murdering a seven-year-old girl in Texas. Tanner Horner, 34, killed Athena Strand in November 2022 after delivering her Barbie Christmas ...

A Texas jury sentenced a former FedEx driver to death for kidnapping and killing a 7-year-old girl after delivering what would have been her Christmas gift. In a surprising move, Tanner Lynn Horner ...

A Tarrant County jury sentenced Tanner Horner to death in the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand on Tuesday. Horner pleaded guilty to the crime just moments before his trial began ...

A former FedEx driver who admitted to killing 7-year-old Athena Strand has been sentenced to death by a Texas jury. Tanner Horner, 34, a former delivery driver accused of kidnapping and strangling the ...

Horner, 34, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering Athena Strand, 7, in 2022 Texas EquuSearch/Facebook; AP/Shutterstock Athena Strand, 7, was kidnapped and murdered in Paradise, Texas, on Nov. 30, ...

Editors note: The below story features descriptions of sexual abuse and the assault of a child. Tanner Horner, the former FedEx driver who murdered 7-year-old Athena Strand, was sentenced to death ...

FORT WORTH – A former FedEx driver was sentenced to death Tuesday for abducting and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand after delivering a package of Barbie dolls to her Wise County home. Tanner Horner, ...

Former FedEx driver Tanner Horner pleaded guilty on April 7, 2026, to capital murder and aggravated kidnapping in the November 2022 death of 7-year-old Athena Strand, just as his criminal trial was ...