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

[PMJ]

OMG

The judge, coughing, before excusing the jury until tomorrow, said "before I choke to death."

How, how, how could he say something so imappropriate when the victim died by strangulation?????

I'm beyond appalled.

After all of the trials he must have experienced over his life time, he is probably numbed by most of what he hears in the court room. I’m sure he felt embarrassed by his expression the minute he said it.

 

[PMJ]

I did not watch the grandmother's testimony. Did she go into any of TH's proclivities or oddities, or family history of proclivities or oddities that may have helped answer the question of what she meant by the remark "I know how you get" after she asked him about doing anything weird to Athena?

I agree, that statement was very telling, imo. He said to her that due to the medicine he takes, it causes him to have a “low libido”. And yet he had raped two young women in the past and his “fiancé” claimed that they had sex on the night Athena went missing.

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

I agree, that statement was very telling, imo. He said to her that due to the medicine he takes, it causes him to have a “low libido”. And yet he had raped two young women in the past and his “fiancé” claimed that they had sex on the night Athena went missing.

Gross! And his fiancé still talks to him!

 

[PMJ]

Gross! And his fiancé still talks to him!

I wonder how he was able to maintain a relationship long enough to become engaged, what with his long history of mental/emotional/social issues.

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

I wonder how he was able to maintain a relationship long enough to become engaged, what with his long history of mental/emotional/social issues.

She must have big problems too.

I wonder how they could live in that shed.

There’s a saying - you can tell the state of your mind by your home.

 

[PMJ]

Oh, that’s pretty interesting. It was shocking when they showed the shed he lived in, next to his Mother’s house. At first I thought it was an abandoned building filled with years of trash inside and then to see a bed in there!! I couldn’t believe he lived in there.

 

[Morequestionsthananswers]

Oh, that’s pretty interesting. It was shocking when they showed the shed he lived in, next to his Mother’s house. At first I thought it was an abandoned building filled with years of trash inside and then to see a bed in there!! I couldn’t believe he lived in there.

The state of it shocked me too, what a filthy mess. Imagine the smell.
Did the fiancé and kid live in there as well?

 

[Niner]

Okay - no one mentioned it yet - but there is NO trial today, correct? Per my notes I have that. Trial continues on Monday, 5/4/26, correct? TIA!

 

[tricia]

Okay - no one mentioned it yet - but there is NO trial today, correct? Per my notes I have that. Trial continues on Monday, 5/4/26, correct? TIA!

Court TV does not have a video scheduled for today so it is a day off.

 

[Niner]

Court TV does not have a video scheduled for today so it is a day off.

Thank you!

 

[steeltowngirl]

Is anyone feeling any kind of sorry for TH? I'm only getting angrier with him.

JMO

Hellz NO!

I’m so over hearing about the penny-pooping, coke-snorting loser who sang Jingle Bell Rock as he brutally tortured and killed an innocent 7 year old who was excited for Santa to bring her Barbie dolls.

I’m beyond pizzed that they’ve attempted to diagnose him with ASD with no proof, and worse yet - with zero link between ASD and MURDER. It is a complete disservice and affront to folks who have ASD.

The only bright side in all of this is that TH committed this heinous murder in a state that allows for the harshest penalty available.

Crossing my fingers that the jury is as disgusted as I am and does the right thing.

JMO

 

[Poedelini]

I agree, that statement was very telling, imo. He said to her that due to the medicine he takes, it causes him to have a “low libido”. And yet he had raped two young women in the past and his “fiancé” claimed that they had sex on the night Athena went missing.

I wonder if he really did use coke before or/and during the assault. Coke really can make someone temporarily impotent.