GUILTY TX - Athena Strand, 8, Abducted & Murdered by FedEx Contract Driver, Tanner Horner, Paradise, 30 November 2022 #2

[Megnut]

Feed pulled.

 

[tlcya]

and now we are at color bars and high pitched tone squealing. did the stream end?

 

[CHEL]

It was after the delivery at the home with the two little girls.

Singing off steam IMO.

I wish we could grab the lyrics.

This is the song. Sunflower by Post Malone.

https://genius.com/Post-malone-and-swae-lee-sunflower-lyrics

 

[arielilane]

Something that stood out to me as odd is that Tanner Horner has his seatbelt on after he abducts Athena. I just thought it was an odd thing to do in the middle of a kidnapping, but I looked it up, and FedEx gets an alert if the driver doesn't have his seatbelt on.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044789290417508776

 

[Megnut]

This is all so disturbing.

Methodical, predatory.

 

[tlcya]

This afternoon, audio from inside the van that Horner was driving when he abducted 7-year-old Athena will be played for the jury — that part will not be shown on the livestream.

Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article315430872.html#storylink=cpy

gonna be a rough day in the courtroom

 

[Tealgrove]

Wow, the day he stole Athena wasn't the only time he covered the front facing camera.

He also did that the day he covered a package at the neighbors' house, with the two little girls.

Chilling.

OMG!

 

[tlcya]

The state asked Jacob Strand to describe how Athena's murder impacted him and his role as a man.

"It made me feel horrible," Strand said. "You know, like, I should have done something or been there. I wasn't there to protect them like I should be, like a father's role."

Strand went on to describe the guilt he felt after Athena's death and how he handled his pain and trauma through "self-destruction." Strand said he "just kind of held everything in," and he told the jury that he turned to alcohol. He said her death ruined his marriage, that he couldn't sleep, and that he "lost, like 50 pounds" because he "would only eat, like, every seven days."

He said that Athena's sister was in therapy after Athena's death, and that she recently returned to therapy because she had been having nightmares about "everything that she's having to hear about and what happened to her sister."

When the prosecution passed the witness, the defense said, "Mr. Strand, we have no questions for you, and we are terribly sorry for your loss."

“I wasn't there to protect them,” Athena Strand's father describes how her disappearance affected him

 

[georgiar]

This afternoon, audio from inside the van that Horner was driving when he abducted 7-year-old Athena will be played for the jury — that part will not be shown on the livestream.

Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article315430872.html#storylink=cpy

gonna be a rough day in the courtroom

I can't believe they are even playing it for the gallery in all honesty. I hope they forced her family to leave.

 

[Megnut]

This is the song. Sunflower by Post Malone.

https://genius.com/Post-malone-and-swae-lee-sunflower-lyrics

I wonder if he was listening to his soundtrack or the radio.

It's like he's listening to relationship songs on his way to pick up a date.

Except he's looking to steal the first little girl he can.

 

[arielilane]

Thank you, all for being here for Athena. She mattered. She will always matter. That can never change.

She is eternally loved



An undated photo of 7-year-old Athena Strand
CBS News Texas

 

[CHEL]

Did the video cut because they are showing "the video"

 

[Megnut]

I wonder if he has an M.O.

Did he ask Athena if there was an adult nearby, you know, to accept the package, less he spoil a Christmas surprise.

Quite sophisticated really.

A variation on candy and puppies.

Asking if a parent is home (to receive Christmas gifts) sounds extra thoughtful....

But isn't.

Because he's is actually asking, how close the adults are in order to abduct a child and escape before they see him.

Evil.

 

[tlcya]

As the Tanner Horner trial continues, the jury must decide what comes next

My thoughts are with Athena's loved ones and that jury right now. May they be able to process what they are seeing and hearing and find healing and peace one day. I don't know that I could serve on such a jury.

 

[Megnut]

Back live, streaming, in the courtroom.

 

[tlcya]

we are now seeing video from December 1st (day after abduction during search) TH is driving his route and delivering packages in the area of Athena's residence, you can see all the vehicles alongside the road his front and internal truck cameras are on. He speaks to someone along the road and says he has packages he needs to deliver down here and heads down the road towards Athena's home. Drives down the road lookey louing, stops briefly, turns around, (just the sheer scope of the vehicles and people present on the scene helping with the search is impressive. So So many) and leaves the area having delivered zero packages..

 

[tlcya]

asks someone is this not 3565? they tell him no, he says oh I have the wrong address, thank you, and drives some more. He is finding reasons to be in the area. Oopsy wrong address. Drives back into the search area yet again. Stops lookey lous some more while sitting there idling, then has the audacity to honk impatiently at someone walking in the road as if he is a rush or something.

beep beep beep beep, honks again, and again one LOOOONG honk. still creeping along because crowded search happening.

He then asks people to move their vehicles because they are in the way. He is finding reasons to engage w LEOs IMO, he is acting confused about the roads being blocked and the hubbub happening in the area. "Are you serious?!?!" he asks.

 

[Megnut]

This is sickening. What -- he's reliving it?

Returning to the scene of the crime in his perfect delivery truck camouflage...

The jury will grant him no mercy.

JMO

 

[tlcya]

Still driving in the search area, past vehicles parked alongside the road, trailers that probably brought ATVs etc.

judge excuses jury for about 10 minutes and feed is shut down once more.

 

[joe jones]

very rarely do we get to see a murderers behavior in real time post the murder