A 7-year-old American girl was found dead in Texas on Friday, two days after she went missing.
After several days of deep concern, the police announced the tragic news. The body of a missing little girl in Texas was found dead on Friday. Seven-year-old Athena Strand disappeared from her home last Wednesday while she was in her bedroom. Authorities quickly determined that she had been killed while also revealing a suspect’s name. According to early elements of the investigation cited by CBS, Athena was kidnapped by a FedEx delivery man who had come to deliver a package to the child’s home on the day of his disappearance.
Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, was quickly arrested and confessed to kidnapping the child. “We knew from the beginning of the investigation that there had been a FedEx delivery man who had made a delivery to the front of the house around the same time little Athena went missing,” County Sheriff Wise Lane Akin told a news conference on Friday. He added that police have in their possession “digital evidence” showing the man was in fact the suspect now charged with murder.
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A quarrel before disappearing
Athena Strand would have lost her life “about an hour after she disappeared,” the sheriff added, without specifying how the little girl was killed. It was his mother-in-law who called the emergency services on Wednesday evening and said that he could no longer find the child. She said she had a fight with her, “but nothing out of the ordinary”. “She left to prepare the meal and when she came back to see Athena, she wasn’t in her room,” the sheriff said.
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According to authorities, it is possible that the little American left home after the argument and got lost before falling on her killer, who kidnapped and killed her. If the Amber Alert (the equivalent of the kidnapping alert plan in France) was not launched immediately, it was because her relatives explained that she had already fled in the past and the police hoped to find her in the night. The warning was finally officially issued by the authorities on Thursday morning. However, Athena’s maternal aunt told NBC 5 that she doesn’t believe in the trail of a runaway, adding that her niece was afraid of the dark and would never have left the house alone. She was found dead about ten miles from her home.