TX - Athena Strand, 8, Abducted & Murdered By FedEx Contract Driver, Tanner Horner, Paradise, 2022 #2

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Case No. CR24559
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Case No. CR24558
AGG KIDNAPPING FACILITATE
02/15/2024Other (9:00 AM) (Judicial Officer Smith, Brock R)

https://jail.co.wise.tx.us/PublicAccess/default.aspx

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Wondering what ALL these Orders are?? Too bad they do not let us know...

And thanks for checking - I shall be back in about a week... :)
 
@PommyMommy - just wondering if there might be an update yet for hearings? TIA! :)

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@PommyMommy - just wondering if there might be an update yet for hearings? TIA! :)

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Happy Easter, @Niner! Here are the latest entries.

Case No. CR24559
CAPITAL MURDER OF PERSON UNDER TEN YOA
03/05/2024 APPLICATION FOR CRIMINAL SUBPOENA (DEFENDANT)
03/06/2024
Subpoena
CHANGE.ORGUnserved
06/14/2024 Other (9:00 AM) (Judicial Officer Smith, Brock R)

Case No. CR24558
AGG KIDNAPPING FACILITATE
06/14/2024 Other (9:00 AM) (Judicial Officer Smith, Brock R)

https://jail.co.wise.tx.us/PublicAccess/default.aspx
 
Friday, June 14th:
*Other Hearing (Wise County) – (@ 9am CT) - TX - Athena Presley Monroe Strand (7) – (last seen near the 200 block of County 3573 on Nov. 30, 2022 in Paradise. Reported missing by mom @ 6:40pm on 11/30/22; found deceased along the water’s edge of the Trinity River southeast of Boyd on the evening of Dec. 2, 2022 about 9 miles from her home). *Tanner Lynn Horner (31/now 32) arrested & charged (not formally) (12/3/22), indicted (2/17/23), charged & arraigned (3/6/23) with capital murder (under the age of 10) & 1st degree felon aggravated kidnapping. Bond $1M (murder) $500K (kidnapping). Surety Bond Total $1,545,000. Plead not guilty (3/6/23). DA will seek DP (12/7/22). Wise County
For Murder case public defenders Bill Ray & Steven Gordon. For Aggravated kidnapping attorney Pamela Fernandez.
Case info from 11/30/22 thru 1/2/24 reference post #356 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...actor-tanner-horner-paradise-2.649712/page-18

1/11/24 Update: Horner will not be transferred to another jail. A judge denied Horner’s request to be moved from the Wise County jail. Other hearing on 2/15/24.
3/5/24 Docket update: Application for criminal subpoena (defendant). Next other hearing on 6/14/24 with Judge Brock R. Smith presiding.
TX - *Tanner Lynn Horner (31/now 32) charged (12/21/22) with 3 counts of sexual assault (from 2013) in Fort Worth. Bond @ $45K. Surety Bond Total $135K. Tarrant County
Case info from 11/30/22 thru 12/12/22 reference post #279 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...actor-tanner-horner-paradise-2.649712/page-14

12/21/22 Update: Wise County jail records now show he's also facing three counts of sexual assault on a child. However, these charges are not related to Strand's death & appear to have been filed in Tarrant County. The charges are related to three separate incidents which all occurred in 2013 in Tarrant County. Next initial appearance in Tarrant County on 1/5/23 @ 10am. No update thru 6/14/24
 
In a way, I wish he had not been charged with the DP. Not that he doesn't deserve it. But, he has no reason to make a plea or cooperate. This will probably go on for years, possibly, longer than his victim was alive.

Why do we remember the villains, and not their victims? Can anyone name one of Ted Bundy's victims? Yet his name rolls off our mind in an instant. We will be following "Tanner Horner" for years, in the news, until his death, and even then, his name will live on...
 
In a way, I wish he had not been charged with the DP. Not that he doesn't deserve it. But, he has no reason to make a plea or cooperate. This will probably go on for years, possibly, longer than his victim was alive.

Why do we remember the villains, and not their victims? Can anyone name one of Ted Bundy's victims? Yet his name rolls off our mind in an instant. We will be following "Tanner Horner" for years, in the news, until his death, and even then, his name will live on...
I could certainly name at least six Bundy victims if asked, and I never remember TH's name unless I'm checking this thread. I always remember Athena's name, though.
 
These are the latest court entries, @Niner. I don't see anything in MSM.

Case No. CR24559
CAPITAL MURDER OF PERSON UNDER TEN YOA
06/14/2024 Other (9:00 AM) (Judicial Officer Smith, Brock R)
09/16/2024 Motion Hearing (1:30 PM) 09/12/2024 Reset by Court

Case No. CR24558
AGG KIDNAPPING FACILITATE
06/14/2024 Other (9:00 AM) (Judicial Officer Smith, Brock R)

 
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Tanner Lynn Horner is seeking to move his capital murder trial out of Wise County.

Horner’s attorney with the Regional Public Defenders Office (RPDO) filed a change of venue motion in 271st District Court in Decatur Wednesday, according to court records.
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Horner’s attorney with the Regional Public Defenders Office (RPDO) filed a change of venue motion in 271st District Court in Decatur Wednesday, according to court records. RPDO attorney Susan Anderson argued in the motion that “inflammatory pre-trial publicity” about the case would prevent a fair trial. She cites publicity in newspapers (including the Wise County Messenger), television, radio and on social media since Strand’s disappearance on Nov. 30, 2022, from her father’s home in Cottondale.
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Defense counsel retained the services of Bryan Edelman of Trial Innovation, a national jury research firm, to assess the impact of pretrial publicity on Horner’s ability to obtain a fair trial. He reviewed 125 news articles published by the Wise County Messenger, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Dallas Morning News, with 72 of the articles appearing in the Messenger, according to the motion.
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District Attorney James Stainton said he believes this is a Wise County case and should be tried locally.

Both sides are expected to make their arguments on the motion in front of District Judge Brock Smith at a court hearing Sept. 16.

No trial date has been announced.
 

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