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The former FedEx driver accused of the 2022 kidnapping and killing of a 7-year-old girl from Wise County pleaded guilty in a Tarrant County court on Tuesday morning.
Tanner Horner told investigators that he accidentally hit the young girl, Athena Strand, with his vehicle shortly after delivering what was meant to be a Christmas present to her home. He kidnapped the girl and then strangled her to death. Several days later, authorities found her body dumped just six miles away…