FedEx Driver Pleads Guilty to Murdering Girl

0:00It's April 7, this is Canada News Today, driven by AI, a former FedEx driver named Tanner Horner just pleaded guilty to Capitol murder in the death of seven-year-old Athena Strand. This went down right after his trial caked off Tuesday in Fort Worth, Texas. The killing happened back in December 2022 in the small town of Paradise near Fort Worth. Horner claimed he accidentally backed his van into Athena while dropping off a package at her house. He said she did not seem badly hurt at first, but in a panic, he put her in the van because he worried she would tell her dad. The family revealed that the delivery was actually a Christmas gift for Athena, a box of those you can be anything Barbies. Horner's lawyers had the trial move from Merle, Wise County to Fort Worth, arguing he could not get a fair shake there. Investigators say Horner admitted trying to break her neck first, then strangling her with his hands before dumping her body, which they found, too. Days after she went missing, he even led them right to the spot.

1:02Now with the guilty plea locked in, Horner faces either the death penalty or life without parole, bringing some closure to this heartbreaking case for. Athena's loved ones.