RECAP: Tanner Horner Penalty Phase Day 5 - Letters to People, FBI, & Medical Examiner

Pretty Lies And Alibis

GiGi McKelvey

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

TRIGGER WARNING: We get into when they brought Athena out of the water & the medical examiner testified about the injuries Athena had & how she thinks some injuries got there.

NOTE: Medical examiner said no evidence of SA.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pretty Lies and Alibis.
0:03.0	Let's seek the truth and travel the long road to justice together.
0:08.0	What you know, Alibis, welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and Alibis.
0:12.0	I'm Gigi. Good to have you here. It's Monday, April 13th.
0:16.0	We are on day five in the penalty phase for Tanner Horner, who has admitted to killing seven-year-old
0:21.7	Athena Strand.
0:22.9	Just your daily trigger warning that this obviously includes sensitive content.
0:28.2	Having said that, let's jump in.
0:30.6	Back on the stand is Sergeant Brett Yarrow.
0:33.4	He was on the stand when we ended the day Friday.
0:36.8	He says, after Tanner tried to hurt himself in jail,
0:39.5	he went into Tanner cell to take photographs
0:41.7	and also took items into evidence,
0:44.4	including handwritten letters that were laid out on a bench in his cell.
0:49.4	They were addressed to Athena's family.
0:51.6	One said detectives only, his family and a church.
0:55.3	I'm going to play the audio of the state reading these letters right now.
0:59.6	It just saves me about 45 minutes between reading and editing those.
1:03.7	So let's take a listen.
1:04.7	I'll catch you guys on the flip side.
1:06.7	To Athena's statement, I wanted to start by saying how sorry I am about Athena.
1:13.1	The entire time I've known my legal counsel that it completely
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