FedEx Driver Who Murdered 7-Year-Old Sentenced To Death In Texas
The FOX True Crime Podcast
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4.7 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back. |
| 0:04.4 | Mom! |
| 0:05.0 | Up the stairs for something. |
| 0:07.8 | Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for. |
| 0:12.0 | Mom, what's for dinner? |
| 0:13.6 | Chop, sizzle, done. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier. |
| 0:23.4 | So its phones down, forks up. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. |
| 0:33.4 | Texas jury sentenced Tanner Horner to death in the 2022 kidnapping and murder of seven-year-old Athena Strand. |
| 0:40.0 | Horner pleaded guilty to the crime just moments before his trial began last month, |
| 0:43.8 | sending the case to the sentencing phase where the jury watched and listened to video and audio of Athena Strand's last moments. |
| 0:50.2 | Horner was working as a FedEx driver November 30th, 2022, and went to Athena's home to deliver a Christmas gift. |
| 0:56.3 | Investigators say he accidentally struck the girl while backing out of the driveway. |
| 1:00.2 | And when he got back in the truck, Horner covered the van's camera. |
| 1:03.2 | But audio captured the seven-year-old asking him, what are you doing? |
| 1:07.1 | Are you a kidnapper? |
| 1:08.4 | Horner can be heard telling the crying child to take off her shirt |
| 1:11.2 | before capturing sounds of the attack, including banging, screaming, crying, and choking. Horner told |
| 1:16.4 | investigators he strangled her at a fear she would tell her father. Athena's body was found two days |
| 1:20.9 | later about nine miles away from her home. There's more on this story at foxnews.com or |
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