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Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. Senior producer, CBS News Investigative Unit Pat Milton, an award-winning ...

Tanner Horner kidnapped and strangled the girl, Athena Strand, after delivering a package to her home in Texas. The package was her Christmas gift, a set of Barbies. By Rylee Kirk A former FedEx ...

A North Texas jury on Tuesday sentenced a former delivery driver to death for the abduction and killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand. Tanner Lynn Horner, who pleaded guilty last month to capital murder ...

Editors note: The below story features descriptions of sexual abuse and the assault of a child. Tanner Horner was bullied as a child, is on the autism spectrum and had a high exposure to lead that may ...

A Texas jury will hear more testimony on April 23 that defense attorneys hope will convince them to spare the life of a former FedEx driver who admitted to kidnapping and killing a 7-year-old girl ...

Disturbing recordings of a 7-year-old child's final moments left jurors visibly distraught on Thursday, April 16, during the sentencing trial of an ex-FedEx driver accused of kidnapping and strangling ...

Athena Strand's father, Jacob Strand, took the stand Thursday morning, facing his daughter's killer and making an emotional plea to the court to make the right decision in punishing Tanner Horner.

The trial of Tanner Horner resumed Wednesday, April 15, with the jury hearing about DNA and video evidence in the killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand and the day concluded with emotional testimony ...

In court Wednesday, Athena Strand’s mother described cherished memories, the shock of her daughter’s disappearance and the pain of seeing her again after she was found. A Fort Worth courtroom fell ...

Athena Strand was a strong, independent child who loved life, her mother testified Wednesday during the seventh day of Tanner Horner’s capital murder trial in Tarrant County. Maitlyn Gandy, wearing a ...