Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver who pleaded guilty on April 7, 2026, to taking the life of 7-year-old Athena Strand, sat across from investigators in November 2022 and tried to negotiate for time.
In footage now shown to a Texas jury, the 34-year-old asked police for a month of freedom so he could spend Christmas with his son, a request that stood in stark contrast to his strangling of a child.
“There’s only one thing in this world that I want,” Horner told investigators. “I want a month.”
