Hey, everyone back to crime weekly news.

I'm Derek Lavasar.

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

Talking about a case today that we've covered on Crime Weekly

News before. There's finally an outcome in it. I have a lot to say about it. But for anybody who

doesn't know in 2022, FedEx driver Tanner Horner kidnapped and killed seven-year-old

Athena Strand, he was allegedly delivering what would have

been her Christmas present. Now, why we're covering it today is that a Texas jury has now

sentenced Horner to death. And yeah, there's a lot to talk about anybody who doesn't know this

case. I don't think there are many of you. We'll give a quick rundown. And then we'll talk about

not only the outcome, but how all of us can kind of perceive

this incident in general as it applies to our own lives. But Stephanie, take it away.

I mean, as Derek said, this happened in November of 2022. It was November 30th. So right after

Thanksgiving, Athena was a seven-year-old girl from Paradise, Texas.

And she disappeared from her family's property after an argument with her stepmother, which, you know,

there's so many layers of sadness and tragedy to this case because you know that what started

and just could have remained as this tiny little argument that parents

have with kids and you know you kind of get mad at your kid and you're like go outside or

I can't deal with this right now and then what happened to Athena after that is something

that I feel like the parents, the stepmother, the mother of the father,

they will never be able to get over.

Like that's a guilt.

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