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A nightmarish photo shows a seven-year-old girl being driven to her death by a FedEx driver who abducted and killed her while delivering her Christmas present.
Seven-year-old Athena Strand was seen standing behind Tanner Horner in the picture released by prosecutors on Tuesday, after the 34-year-old pled guilty to capital murder just before his trial was due to begin.
Athena looked concerned in the black-and-white photo, taken on the day she was strangled in November 2022, with Horner concentrating on the road in front of him.
He snatched the youngster while delivering a Barbie to her home that was to be one of her main festive gifts. Horner told investigators that he accidentally hit the girl with his truck, ‘panicked,’ grabbed her, and put her in his vehicle. Fearing what would happen if he told Strand’s parents, he said he strangled her inside the truck and dumped her body seven miles from her home, beside a country road. Her body was found two days later.
But the new photograph has seemingly demolished the killer’s claim that he struck the girl accidentally and drove off with her body. Horner, who previously denied killing Strand, pled guilty to capital murder of a child under 10 and aggravated kidnapping on Tuesday. The case has now been sent to the punishment phase, meaning a jury must decide whether he will be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole.
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