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FedEx driver charged with kidnapping and killing 7-year-old girl
1 month ago | By NBC News
Texas sheriff Lane Akin confirmed missing 7-year-old Athena Strand has been found dead. Her body was discovered less than ten miles from her driveway, where investigators say 31-year-old FedEx driver Tanner Lynn Horner was making a delivery to her home when he kidnapped the girl.
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FedEx driver is arrested in the kidnapping and killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand in Texas
1 month ago | By WCVB
Sheriff: 'It's one of the toughest investigations that I've been involved in because it's a child.'
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Body of 7-year-old Texas girl found, FedEx driver arrested
1 month ago | By Boston Herald
A 7-year-old Texas girl has been found dead, two days after being reported missing, and a FedEx delivery driver arrested in her death, authorities said.
The body of Athena Strand was found Friday and Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, was arrested on kidnapping and murder charges after confessing to killing the girl and telling authorities where to find her body, according to Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin.
Horner remained jailed Saturday on $1.5 million bond. Jail records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Akin said during a late Friday news conference that a tip led authorities...
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