{"id":17598,"date":"2026-05-17T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17598"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:04:53","slug":"man-behind-the-murder-of-7-year-old-athena-strand-receives-final-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17598","title":{"rendered":"Man Behind the Murder of 7-Year-Old Athena Strand Receives Final Sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disappearance and death of 7-year-old Athena Strand in Texas in 2022 shocked communities across the United States. After she vanished from her father\u2019s home in Wise County, a large search effort involving police and volunteers quickly began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities later confirmed Athena had been abducted and killed. Investigators identified Tanner Lynn Horner, a delivery driver connected to a contractor working with FedEx, as the suspect. According to officials, he had been making deliveries in the neighborhood on the day Athena disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disappearance and death of 7-year-old Athena Strand in Texas in 2022 shocked communities across the United States. After she vanished from her father\u2019s home in Wise County, a large search effort involving police and volunteers quickly began. Authorities later confirmed Athena had been abducted and killed. Investigators identified Tanner Lynn Horner, a delivery driver &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17600,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions\/17600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}