The Heartbreaking Case of Athena Strand

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The capital murder trial for former delivery driver Tanner Horner resumes in a few hours without the jury.

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Jurors cried, some wept openly as the prosecution played the audio recording from inside Tanner Horner's delivery truck. Seven-year-old Athena Strand asking if he is a kidnapper. Horner telling her to take off her shirt. Athena crying and screaming for her mom, telling Horner, "My mom says you can't do that to me." The sound of a brutal murder and Athena's final gasp for air.

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This is the story of seven-year-old Athena Strand, who was abducted right outside of her home by a FedEx delivery driver who was actually dropping off a Christmas present for Athena, a set of Barbies for her, for Christmas. That package. And even just saying that, it still doesn't feel real. This guy was dropping off a Christmas gift for her and as this seven-year-old innocent little girl, and then abducts her. But what we have learned since then, not only about the crime itself, but about Tanner, this monster, his past, the allegations against him, the predatory behavior, it paints an even more disturbing, more horrifying picture than we originally knew. Because now through the trial and the footage and the audio recordings that have come out, investigators believe that this was not only a sexually motivated crime, but