100th Episode! | Athena Strand, Michael Vaughan, Boy in the Box & Ask Us Anything

True Crime Society

True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On November 30, 2022, 7 year-old Athena Strand got off the school bus and headed into her home in Paradise, TX. She allegedly got into a fight with her stepmother and she went outside to cool off. After Athena’s parents hadn’t heard a peep from her for about an hour, they started searching for her and called police. People theorized that maybe Athena had run away, but trace of her was found for two days. Police announced on December 2 that Athena’s body had been found.

A FedEx delivery driver named Tanner Lynn Horner has been charged with Athena’s kidnapping and murder. Tanner had been delivering a Barbie doll that was a Christmas gift for Athena, when he abducted and murdered her in a crime of opportunity.

In the final episode of the True Crime Society Podcast for 2022, we discuss the murder of Athena Strand. We also discuss some updates to previous cases that we have covered.

In 1957, the body of a child was found in a box in Pennsylvania. For 65 years, the child remained unidentified. In December 2022, we finally learned his name – Joseph Augustus Zarelli.

Michael Vaughan went missing from his home in Fruitland, Idaho in July 2021. In November 2022, police excavated a backyard in the neighborhood – a two minute drive from Michael’s home. Police believe that married couple Stacey and Sarah Wondra had buried Michael in their backyard and have since moved his remains.

Read our blogs for these cases –

https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2021/07/26/who-is-the-boy-in-the-box/

https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2022/01/02/where-is-michael-monkey-vaughan/

https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2022/12/01/amber-alert-issued-for-7-year-old-athena-strand-missing-from-texas/

If you would like to start straight at the case content, please skip to (6:04).

As this marks our 100th episode (!), we also have a chat towards the end of the episode and we answer your questions about crime and life! Thank you so much for listening over the past few years. Here’s to hundreds more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:24.0	What's up guys, welcome to another episode of True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
0:28.9	Pete, she just hopped right on the bed.
0:30.8	She's ready to go and she's excited because it's our 100th episode.
0:39.9	And it's also the last episode of the year.
0:42.0	So it's worked out perfectly for us.
0:43.9	Yeah, no, that's not planned that way.
0:45.6	Lucky we had a few big breaks over the years.
0:48.4	So it worked out perfectly for this one.
0:51.0	Yeah, it did.
0:52.2	All came together in the end.
0:54.4	The weather here is freaking horrendous.
0:58.3	It's just like raining, snowing, slushy, and it's so cold.
1:01.9	So hopefully it doesn't mess with my internet connection.
1:04.8	It's actually super cold here too, which is weird because it was so nice.
1:07.7	But I feel like there's some like some Siberian Antarctic blast or something going on
1:12.4	around the world, which is why it's so cold and disgusting everywhere.
1:16.8	Yeah, I feel like I read something like that.
1:19.2	I'm not very specific, but it's definitely something like that.
1:22.8	There's something going on.
1:24.7	Yeah, well, as you're going to a concert after this.
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