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DEATH PENALTY: Tot Athena Strand, 7, Found Dead, KIDNAPPED by FedEx Driver. · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Seven year old Athena's strand
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  Speaker 1: was looking forward to a birthday party and birthday presents,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't turn out the way her family planned.
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  Speaker 1: A fed Ex driver, thirty one year old Tenor Horner
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  Speaker 1: now formally indicted for kidnapping seven year old Athena while
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  Speaker 1: delivering a birthday present to the home. He is now
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  Speaker 1: also charged with capital murder and is facing the death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious Leven
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  Speaker 1: a Texas f X driver now charged and the kidnapping
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  Speaker 1: and strangling death of a beautiful seven year old little
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  Speaker 1: girl he allegedly kidnapped from her Dallas home. He's been
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  Speaker 1: formally indicted with a murderer, and in Texas that means
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  Speaker 1: the state can announce the death penalty will be sought.
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  Speaker 1: Now he has his own story, which I'm sure is
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  Speaker 1: a big lie, because once you hear it, I think
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  Speaker 1: you'll agree with me. Tanner Horner, thirty one years old
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  Speaker 1: tell us investigators he accidentally hit a Fenistrand with his
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  Speaker 1: truck that he panicked, grabbed her and put her in
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  Speaker 1: his FedEx car. Fearing what would happen if he told
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  Speaker 1: her mom and dad, he strangled her in the truck
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  Speaker 1: and dumped her body seven miles from home off some
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  Speaker 1: country road. She was found December two. Now, at that time,
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  Speaker 1: she was at the home of her dad and mom,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe the stepmom fully was convinced she was
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  Speaker 1: just outdoors playing. Little did she know the FedEx delivery
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  Speaker 1: guy had abducted beautiful little Athena. And in another headline,
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  Speaker 1: Athenis Transsather is now suing FedEx and a delivery driver
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  Speaker 1: he says strangled his daughter dead, claiming the company was
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  Speaker 1: negligent in employing him and failing to supervise him. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: strand Athena's dads seeking over a million dollars in damages
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  Speaker 1: from FedEx. He also names Horner and the contractor that
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  Speaker 1: hired him in his new lawsuit. Now Athenis Trans Biomom
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  Speaker 1: has also lost a private investigation into the circumstances surrounding Horner.
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  Speaker 1: Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver hiring Horner, now held on
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  Speaker 1: capital charges of murder and aggravated kidnapping in Wise County, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: But how did the whole thing start? Take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to our friends at CBSDFMW search cruise had been now
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  Speaker 1: here all day long trying to figure out where exactly
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  Speaker 1: she is. It's a very wooded terrain, and just a
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  Speaker 1: few moments ago I actually saw another group of volunteers
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  Speaker 1: with flashlights as they try to go out trying to
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  Speaker 1: find Athena. Now take a look at your screens. This
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  Speaker 1: is what seven year old Athena Strand looks like. She
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  Speaker 1: was last known with her dad and stepmom at her
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  Speaker 1: house on a County Road seventy three near Cottondale. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what happened. According to the Sheriff's office, Athena's stepmother called
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  Speaker 1: the Sheriff's department just after six thirty last night, saying
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  Speaker 1: Athena was missing. After searching for about an hour, the
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  Speaker 1: two had an argument and then Athena's dad wasn't home
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Right now, officials think Athena walked out
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  Speaker 1: on her own. You're hearing it just as everyone heard
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  Speaker 1: it at that time. She looks like a little angel.
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  Speaker 1: How do you have a fight with your stepmother and
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  Speaker 1: then suddenly just disappear from the family home with me
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  Speaker 1: An all star panel to makes sense of what we
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  Speaker 1: know right now, Alexis Terscha joining US Crime Online dot
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  Speaker 1: Com investigative reporter Alexis. First of all, this takes place
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  Speaker 1: in Paradise, Texas. And from what I understand, that's about
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  Speaker 1: forty miles northwest of Fort Worth. What can you tell
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  Speaker 1: me about Paradise, Texas. Well, it is in Wise County,
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  Speaker 1: and you're exactly right. It is northwest of Fort Worth
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  Speaker 1: and Dallas. Arlington's considered part of the Dallas metropolitan area.
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  Speaker 1: It is a small area. It's just a county that's
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  Speaker 1: only about seventy thousand people. Even though it's near these
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  Speaker 1: really big cities, it's a much smaller community. Seventy thousand people.
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  Speaker 1: Straight out to Robert Crispin joining US private investigator, also
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  Speaker 1: former Federal Task Force officer for US Department in Justice
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  Speaker 1: d EA Miami Field Division. No lack of business in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Former homicide Crime Skits Children investigator now at Crispin's Special
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  Speaker 1: Investigations and you can find me at Crispin Investigations dot Com. Robert,
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  Speaker 1: seventy thousand people in the big scheme of crime. That's
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  Speaker 1: still considered a small town. Now, Listen, I grew up
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  Speaker 1: on a red dirt road literally much much smaller population.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're talking about suspects, you can take out
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  Speaker 1: I mean statistically women, you can take out everybody younger
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  Speaker 1: than let's just say ten. You can take out everybody
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  Speaker 1: statistically older seventy or older. And then what you've got
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  Speaker 1: left out of seventy thousand in the big scheme crispin
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  Speaker 1: as a small suspect pool, especially when you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: an area that's over an hour drive in traffic from
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  Speaker 1: a big city. You think you're in a safe community,
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  Speaker 1: right you would, But what that seventy thousand does is
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  Speaker 1: it it really gives you the opportunity to narrow things
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  Speaker 1: down versus being in a population of several million in
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  Speaker 1: a city. So it really helps the investigators narrow down,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the area where this happened. Being I believe
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  Speaker 1: it was somewhat rule. You're going to have, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have witnesses, and you're going to have stuff that's going
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  Speaker 1: to point you pretty much directly to your suspect pretty quick,
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  Speaker 1: versus something happening in downtown Miami. Well, I mean talking
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  Speaker 1: about pointing to a suspect. To Wendy Patrick, California Prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: author Red Flags and a new book, Why Bad Looks Good,
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  Speaker 1: Biblical wisdom to make smart choices in life, love, and friendship.
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  Speaker 1: She's at Wendy Patrick PhD dot com and you can
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  Speaker 1: hear her on Today with Doctor Wendy KCBT Wendy and
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  Speaker 1: child goes missing and step Mommy is the only one
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  Speaker 1: at home with a child. The first place you look
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  Speaker 1: is step mommy. You separate her from everybody else, and
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  Speaker 1: you hone in on the questions they cause as minutes
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  Speaker 1: go by. When a child is missing, every second counts.
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  Speaker 1: Children that are abducted are usually killed within three hours
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  Speaker 1: if it's a stranger abduction. So the first thing you
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  Speaker 1: do is you get step mommy and put her on
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  Speaker 1: the hot seat. Exactly right. You start at the very
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  Speaker 1: core of where the child went missing, and then you
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  Speaker 1: work outwards. So you're right, it would start with a
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  Speaker 1: stepmom it would begin to extend to the next door neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: and it would very slowly and methodically go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're right, it is within the first three hours,
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  Speaker 1: So that would be exactly where you would start. And
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  Speaker 1: you'd want to get that testimony while it's fresh. You'd
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  Speaker 1: want to get that interview, so you'd be able to
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  Speaker 1: then move confidently to see who else could have been
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  Speaker 1: in the area. And with a small town, you'd think
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  Speaker 1: it's more somebody saw something. Yeah, you know, And I'm curious,
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  Speaker 1: Alexis rush Shuk. You've given me the gist of the area,
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  Speaker 1: but I need to know. Do they live in an
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  Speaker 1: apartment complex as a single family dwelling? Was there a
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  Speaker 1: gate around it? Because I remember the case of Isabella's selice,
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  Speaker 1: and you and I covered that together. Isabella was taken
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  Speaker 1: out of her home by a stranger to her. He
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  Speaker 1: tangentially knew the family. But I kept looking at the
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  Speaker 1: entrances in exis to her home, and they had a
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  Speaker 1: huge wall, remember that attached to the side of the house,
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  Speaker 1: in the front on the sides and went all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the back and joined. I mean, you'd have
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  Speaker 1: to jump over the wall, and she was much too
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  Speaker 1: small to do that. So any intruder, I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: do you get into the home. So I need to
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  Speaker 1: know about the timeline, what happened that day just before
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  Speaker 1: she disappears, what time did she disappear, and what, if
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  Speaker 1: anything do we know about the structure. Alexis Terrez chuck.
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  Speaker 1: So she came home from school about four or fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: and so if you think of four fifteen, but it's
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  Speaker 1: getting dark at four fifteen, now it's getting it's just
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  Speaker 1: before sunset really, which is, you know, right around five.
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  Speaker 1: So she goes in her house, she finds out this
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  Speaker 1: is what you know, her mom has said. Stepmom. She
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  Speaker 1: goes in the house, she finds out her dad is
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  Speaker 1: not there. He has left to go on a hunting trip.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently she was julotle upset about this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she probably just likes dad and wants to spend some
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  Speaker 1: time with him. So she then there was apparently an
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  Speaker 1: argument with her stepmom about this, and stepmom didn't see
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  Speaker 1: her for a little while. So fourth fifteen, Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: right there, what do you mean stepmom didn't see her
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  Speaker 1: for a little while. What does that mean? Well, the
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  Speaker 1: stepmoma has said that there they had an argument. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't say what kind of argument it was, but that
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  Speaker 1: then she didn't see the little girl. So I guess
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  Speaker 1: she thought she went into her room in her house.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe she sent her to her room, but she just
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  Speaker 1: said she didn't see her for a little while. And
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  Speaker 1: then she made dinner and she went to get Athena
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  Speaker 1: for dinner, and she went to her room, couldn't find her,
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  Speaker 1: looked around the house and couldn't find her, and that's
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  Speaker 1: when she started to get panicked. We also know alexis Terrestie.
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  Speaker 1: This is a single family home and it's about two
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards away from the street. Two hundred yards that's
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  Speaker 1: two football fields away from the street. So what person
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  Speaker 1: is going to come all the way up the drivewaynes
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  Speaker 1: drive back in there, get to the home, get the
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  Speaker 1: girl and leave without being noticed. Another thing, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go to Scott A. Johnson, forensic psychologists joining us out
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota, thirty two years in the business and find
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  Speaker 1: him at Forensic Consultation dot org. Author of multiple books.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Johnson, thanks for being with us. Isn't it true
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  Speaker 1: that a known, a tried and true parental technique is
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  Speaker 1: when your child throws a fit or is angry at you,
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  Speaker 1: you let them cool off, right, let them go to
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  Speaker 1: their room, let them color, do their homework, you know,
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  Speaker 1: until they get get hungry and can ask you for something.
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  Speaker 1: But long story short, a cooling off period. We even
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  Speaker 1: suggest that to parents. In fact, that's in the written
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  Speaker 1: letter of the law. When you are discussing a crime
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  Speaker 1: of passion, if the p has a cooling off period
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  Speaker 1: and returns and commits a murder, it's not in the
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  Speaker 1: heat of passion because there has been a quote cooling
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  Speaker 1: off period, in other words, for the passion to subside.
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  Speaker 1: You're not angry anymore. So it's recognized in the black
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  Speaker 1: and white letter of the law. So certainly it would
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  Speaker 1: apply in this case. The stepmom let the little girl
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  Speaker 1: go to her room, Brett. She did the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: So let the child calm down and be heard and
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  Speaker 1: just let it go. So, okay, Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: Okay to you, Eliza Terrestrian. Any idea how long the
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  Speaker 1: stepmom and the daughter were separated before stepmom that comes concerned.
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  Speaker 1: It was only about an hour, so as sad chat
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  Speaker 1: home about five four or fifteen, about five thirty, the
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  Speaker 1: stepmom realized that that's when she went to look for her,
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  Speaker 1: and so she looked and looked. It took her. She
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  Speaker 1: was looking for her for an hour. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say that she waited an hour because she didn't.
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  Speaker 1: She was looking for her and as you can see,
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  Speaker 1: you know from some of the photos and the video
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  Speaker 1: from the scene, it's the property is wide. She probably
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  Speaker 1: could have walked all the way down to the mailbox.
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  Speaker 1: She was looking around for her, looked at the house,
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  Speaker 1: maybe behind the house, if there was a play area,
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  Speaker 1: But she was looking for her for an hour, and
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  Speaker 1: that's when she called police. And again with that, I
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  Speaker 1: don't find that unusual, Wendy Patrick, because I've told you
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  Speaker 1: this story before when John Davy went missing in the
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  Speaker 1: babies or a superstore. I grabbed Lucy like a football
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  Speaker 1: and started running to the front door, which was all glass,
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  Speaker 1: because I immediately feared that someone had taken him out,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the obvious exit. Screaming my son is
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  Speaker 1: missing helped me. And you know, I was looking all
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  Speaker 1: around the store before I even can dawn on me
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  Speaker 1: to call nine one one. So I find that perfectly normal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that story, Nancy, and you know it is normal,
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  Speaker 1: and it's especially normal if it's a large property. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you've got a long way to look, if there
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  Speaker 1: are a number of police, as she could have walked
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  Speaker 1: to even on the property, you know, even if it's dark,
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  Speaker 1: and especially perhaps if it's dark, should probably look a
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  Speaker 1: little more closely it's not unusual. And you know, Alexis
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  Speaker 1: did a great job of specifying it's not a delay
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  Speaker 1: where she's sad and just wondered what she should do.
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  Speaker 1: She was actively looking. Can you even imagine going upstairs
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  Speaker 1: to get your stepdaughter for dinner and she's gone. I
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  Speaker 1: mean this that thought, I know, nanthy Uni, what that
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  Speaker 1: feels like. Your heart just just races. And so this
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  Speaker 1: mom probably didn't even have a concept of time as
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  Speaker 1: she looked through her property unfortunately unsuccessfully to find this
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  Speaker 1: little girl. She immediately COLLS nine one one following a
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  Speaker 1: search for the little girl. Take a listen to Nick Starling, CBS.
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  Speaker 1: When I asked Sheriff Lane Akin if someone could have
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  Speaker 1: possibly taken her, he told me all options are on
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  Speaker 1: the table at this point and they will leave no
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  Speaker 1: stone unturned. Now, several dozen search crews have been out
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  Speaker 1: all day, in the air and on foot trying to
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  Speaker 1: find this little girl. On usually you found the child
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  Speaker 1: close to the house, under the house, in the eddy,
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  Speaker 1: in the laundry, under the bed. Usually that's what happened,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't happen this time. So then the next
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  Speaker 1: thing is you look around the house and then you've
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  Speaker 1: got to expand that as time goes on, you know
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  Speaker 1: that sinking feeling, that feeling like, Okay, they're here, they
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  Speaker 1: got to be here. You look under the bed, you're
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  Speaker 1: look in the closet, you look behind the shower curtain.
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  Speaker 1: Then you go out in the yard, you're look in
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  Speaker 1: the car, and that feeling that sinks in when you've
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  Speaker 1: run out of places to look. Let's hear what Sheriff
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  Speaker 1: Lane Aiken has to say. And that search, for the
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  Speaker 1: most part was that area of the house, inside the house,
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  Speaker 1: under the house, and then the immediate area and that
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  Speaker 1: six acred track where they live, but they weren't able
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  Speaker 1: to locate the child. Later on in the night we
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  Speaker 1: had THHP who came to help, and multiple local pds
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  Speaker 1: joined in and helped us in the investigation and the search.
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  Speaker 1: And in the nighttime we had DPS one on one helicopter,
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  Speaker 1: DPS one on one and four PDS air one that
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  Speaker 1: were there and they had thermal imaging helping to locate
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  Speaker 1: e signatures on the ground, but they didn't find anything
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  Speaker 1: other than wildlife rabbits, hogs and some deer and no
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  Speaker 1: indication that there was any human activity. They're doing everything right.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, after thermal imaging helicopters and bringing in
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Highway Patrol to help, they take another step
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  Speaker 1: to find this little girl. Take a listen to the sheriff.
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  Speaker 1: Local law enforcement as well as Rescue one. Search and
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  Speaker 1: Rescue one had their canine teams, and those canine teams
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  Speaker 1: worked throughout the night in the darkness until the early
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  Speaker 1: morning hours trying to pick up a track a trail.
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  Speaker 1: They picked up a short trail that just kind of
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  Speaker 1: circled around the house and then headed back over toward
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty three, two different dog teams ran that trail.
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  Speaker 1: I go, but still we didn't find a female. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Crispin, they're doing everything right. Did you hear what
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff said about the dogs. They bring in the dogs,
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  Speaker 1: they go round and around and around the house, and
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  Speaker 1: then that's it. That would suggest she didn't leave the house, correct,
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  Speaker 1: They would have picked up on that scent and they
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  Speaker 1: would they went somewhere with that set with those dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Those dogs are fantastic, which immediately is going to make
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  Speaker 1: them jump to that child was removed on that property,
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  Speaker 1: hence taking this case apartment or the child is somewhere
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  Speaker 1: on that property. Since the dogs aren't indicating she left
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  Speaker 1: another thing, could you explain what the thermal helicopters do.
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  Speaker 1: So the thermal imaging is in other terms called flur
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  Speaker 1: forward looking in for red. And what it does is
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  Speaker 1: it it projects down onto the ground or in the
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  Speaker 1: air wherever to pick up heat from a body heat
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  Speaker 1: from someone. You see it now on Fox News all
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  Speaker 1: the time when you see a lot of the illegals
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  Speaker 1: coming across the border. It's nighttime and you see a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of white images walking through a very dark wooded area.
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  Speaker 1: So the thermal is going to pick up on the
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  Speaker 1: body heat and it's it's going to tell you if
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  Speaker 1: there's a child lost. They use it a lot for
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  Speaker 1: children that are lost in the wilderness or people that
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  Speaker 1: are lost in the weldness. In this case, they're looking
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  Speaker 1: for maybe the child wandered into the woods and got
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  Speaker 1: lost or is vetted down somewhere, and that thermal imaging
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  Speaker 1: or that flear is going to pick right up on
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  Speaker 1: it and it's going to hone in where that kid is.
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  Speaker 1: It's very amazing technology. And what about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: there is a six acre track for them to search
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  Speaker 1: six acres of wooded land. It's going to be very difficult. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the helicopter is great because it can cover such a
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  Speaker 1: large area and that flur. They can dial it in
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  Speaker 1: to within a few feet, or they can go out
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  Speaker 1: a little bit wider and start to do a grid
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  Speaker 1: pattern and fly back and forth, which is why you
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  Speaker 1: see helicopters flying in circles or up and down or
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  Speaker 1: back and forth. They're doing a grid search and there
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  Speaker 1: are projecting that flur under the ground and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to pick up things such as a deer. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to pick up a rabbit, They're going to pick up
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  Speaker 1: a duct, They're going to pick up anything that is
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  Speaker 1: emitting to keep and it's going to lock onto that child.
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  Speaker 1: And it didn't. And of course, to special guests joining us,
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  Speaker 1: a forensic psychologist Scott A. Johnson out of Minnesota. Why
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  Speaker 1: is it that children, when they are faced with an
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  Speaker 1: argument with their parents, they may go hide. Why do
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  Speaker 1: they hide? Well, they're sort of get out in their head.
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  Speaker 1: You know, why is mommy or daddy angry at me?
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe they're angry at mom or dad for being
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  Speaker 1: angry at them. And I think it's just hiding makes
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  Speaker 1: things better at the time. I guess it's just a
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  Speaker 1: human nature. The next thing cops are doing now the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: shaff tries to piece together a timeline. Remember, at this juncture,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: if step mommy is not involved and Daddy's not involved,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that means this is a stranger abduction. A stranger abductions
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly the child is killed within three hours. So what's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the timeline? Listened to Sheriff Lane Aiken had about four
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: or fifteen seven year old athen of Strands stepped off
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: her school bus arriving home like she does almost every
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: day at County Road thirty five seventy three in Paradise.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Had about six forty pm that same day, Why is
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Canty Sheriff's Office dispatch received a nine one one call
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: from athena step mom reporting that Athena was missing. Within
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: about fourteen minutes, we had deputies, ms, volunteer fire departments
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: there and there was a search that commenced just right away.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: You know, as far as I can see, alexis teresta
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: crime online like commonist to gative reporter, And they wasted
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: no time. As soon as they got the call from
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the mom, they did their own all out search. They
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: brought in thermal imaging, as you heard Robert Crispin describing
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: floor they brought in. They're doing everything, and they're doing
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: it quickly. They also very important nail down the timeline.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: They're doing everything right so far, and that they even
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: had people on horses searching because it's you know, it's
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: not an urban area, so they're searching all around thinking
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: maybe she got lost, but if somebody took her, maybe
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: they're still close enough that they could find them and
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: get her back safely from them. They absolutely took this
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: very seriously. They did not think that she had run
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: away at all. They were very worried about her. The
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: minutes tick by in the search and then there is
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: a break. Take a listener share of Lane aken and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: we want to send our condolences out to the family
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: of Athenas Strand. Her body was recovered about two hours ago,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: maybe three six miles that direction. It hurts our hearts
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to know that that child died, so much so that
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that she is on her way now to the Medici
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Examiner's office and there's a Texas ranger in front of
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: her and there's a Texas ranger behind her. This community
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: does not like losing our children, and we could see
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: it because of all the people who came out and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: helped us throughout this ordeal. The stepmother is doing everything
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: she can to find Athena. The bio dad is gone.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Of course, he turns around and comes back, but he's gone.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: At the time of the disappearance, there's no indication of
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a forced entry. There were no visitors in the home,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: no relatives, no next door neighbors came over. Take a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: listen now to our friends at WF A. Cherif lean
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Aiken of Wie County told us that law enforce been
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: got a tip Friday regarding Little Athena that they knew
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a FedEx driver had been in the area of Athena's
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: house in rural Ice around the time she went missing,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: but the tip and investigative work leading them to thirty
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: one year old Tanner Lynn Horner, the driver of that
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: FedEx truck who was delivering a package to Athena's home.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: He was taken into custody on Friday and gave a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: confession to investigators per the sheriff, telling them where he
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: dumped Athena's body. It was found roughly six miles southeast
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of Boyd investigators believe she died within an hour of
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: being abducted again. In the last days, the dad of
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: seven year old Athena Strand is suing FedEx and the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: delivery driver who's triangled his daughter dead according to him,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: claiming the company who was negligent and employing him and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: failing to supervise him. Authorities were led to her body
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: by a tip, a tip about a fed Ex delivery person.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: It's every parent's worst nightmare. I was recently writing another book,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and it's called Don't Be a Victim. And when I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: was researching Don't Be a Victim, I did a whole segment,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a whole chapter on how to stay safe at your home.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: And I wrote on and on about what to do
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: if a delivery man or a repairman comes to your
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: home that you don't know. I don't mean cousin Eddie
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: that can fix your fridge, mean anybody that comes to
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: your home, whether it's the pizza guy, the painter is
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: going to paint the back of your house, the delivery guy,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the electrician. How to take steps to protect yourself. And
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you know, when I wrote the book, I was thinking
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: about mostly women living alone or with their roommates gone
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that find themselves alone and face with the prospect of
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: letting an unknown male into the home or female. And
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I keep thinking about the stepmom, probably in the kitchen
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: fixing supper, thinking Athene was back in her room, cooling
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: off from their argument about dad taking a hunting trip.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And somehow, according to what we know now, Athena was
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: no longer in her room. She had been kidnapped and killed.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just imagining stepmom, you know, making the pasta or
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: whatever she was making and setting the table, and when
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: she goes to get a thinner for supper, she's gone.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Take a listen now to our friends at kate x
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: as our cut seven. The body of seven year old
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Athena Strand has been found. A Wiss County Sheriff Lane
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Atkin announced late last night that Strand was kidnapped by
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a fed Ex driver. That driver, he says was doing
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a delivery, had Athena's home at the same time. Athena
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: left home after an argument with her stepmother. Sheriff Atkins
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: says she was likely killed within an hour after she
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: was kidnapped. Her body found southeast of Boyd, about ten
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: miles from where Athena was reported missing too Alexe to rush.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: So did the little girl we think go outside? Did
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: she never go back to her room? She did go outside.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know if she went back to her room
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: first or not, but she did go outside. I guess
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: when the truck was there. You know, Roma, Crispin. It's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: just too much to take in that your child goes
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: outside to play and you have to worry that the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: FedEx guys coming up the driveway. I mean, I tell
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: my children when a delivery person comes, don't open the door.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Do not open it. And we specifically, like in the book,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: have a window by the door so you can look
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: out and see who it is. Don't open the door.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: But a seven year old child is thinking like we think, Crispin,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and she's already out there. She's not in the home,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: and she's outside when this FedEx driver pulls up. Not
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in the town of seventy thousand people, I guarantee you
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: everybody sleep with their doors open in their cars, left unlocked.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Innocence of a seven year old probably saw the truck
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: coming up and was excited to run out and say
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: hi and get the package for their parents. That's the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: sad part or the iron of all this. So back
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to you, Alexis. To rush Chuck, Alexis, I wanted to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: ask you about the tip. Apparently it was a neighbor
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: in the community, in the neighborhood that saw a FedEx driver.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: What do we know was in the tip and why
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: did the neighbor Why didn't that stick out in the
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: neighbor's mind. I believe that the neighbor had seen the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: FedEx truck and it was around the same time, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that it was very close to the house, and so
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: they thought, well, maybe something had happened there. Everybody knows,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you know, FedEx has the tracking on the truck, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that that would be the reason that they would be
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: able to trace it very quickly and then they could
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: get the cell phone of the driver and find out
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: where it was. I don't know if the neighbor went
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: into that much of depth, but you're absolutely correct, Alexis,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Terres Chuck, a neighbor happened to remember seeing a FedEx truck.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: For all we know, Stepmom didn't even know a package
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: had been delivered. We don't know if it was dropped
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: at the mailbox or dropped on the front porch. She
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: may never have even seen the FedEx delivery guy. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to what the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: FBI says happened. Joining us at Fox News. Listen. When
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you look at the digital evidence that's out there and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you combine all these different things, it is very easy
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to track somebody if you have a combination of a
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: visual identification of what vehicle was, if they have a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: tracking device on that truck, and if the individual who
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: kidnapped the girl has a cell phone on her. I'm
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: not sure if the seven year old had one on her,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: but the phone company's in cooperation with law enforcement, especially
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: in an emergency circumstance, they have the ability to track
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a phone. So and it's it's pretty easy to figure
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: out where it was. It's just a click of a button.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: It just has to have legal approval. Straight out to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Robert Crispin, joining us from Crispin Investigations dot com. So
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: what happened? How did they truck and buy his phone
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: or by the FedEx truck tracker and how does that work? So, Nancy,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: these FedEx trucks, I'll have GPS's summer along the line.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: In this investigation, it started to move very quick and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: they be able to determine what driver dropped that package off,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and they probably won't write straight to FedEx. And they
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: were able to find out where is that truck, get
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the history of it. Because GPS is you can go
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: back in time and you can do a playback, and
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you can do a certain time. You can search between
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: one and five o'clock. It'll tell you exactly where that
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: truck is. And I guarantee they probably went and did that,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and that put that truck in that driveway at that time,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and it all started to come together. Then they were
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: able to go find the truck, identify their driver, and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: start to move this case forward. Then we can start
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: doing cell phone work, i e. His cell phone, the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: electronic digital leash that we all carry every single day
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that reports to towers. There's hundreds of towers everywhere, and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: each tower has an address. Some are on private property,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: some are on businesses. And your phone is you're talking
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and driving, is going to bounce off these towers. If
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: you drive from Miami to four Lauderdale, you're bouncing off ten, fifteen,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: twenty different towers. And each one of those towers have
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: an address, so I can track you or anyone can
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: track you moving up an interstate, moving through a neighborhood.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Digital evidence the best evidence. It brought him right to
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: mister FedEx man. Prime stories with Nancy Grace Little Lathena Strand,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: just seven years old, kidnapped and allegedly strangled by a
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: FedEx driver outside of Dallas. Strand vanished from her dad's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: home there in Wise County, her body found two days later,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Horner thirty one telling cops he accidentally hit Strand with
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: his truck and panicked and in his panic, strangled her dead.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I don't believe that for one minute. If he really
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: hit her, he would have should have called nine one one.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Sounds like Tom on Casey in he's a bogus story
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: that Kelly drowned in the backyard pool and instead of
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: calling nine one one her dad just decided to put
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: her in a trash bag and throw her in a swamp.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Does not make any sense one because it's not true.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns, Chief Medical Examiner, Tarrett County, there In
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Texas Lecture University, Texas, Texas A and M and Faculty, University,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Texas Medical Branch. Doctor Crowns, thank you for being with us.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: No problem, Nancy, happy to be here. Doctor Crowns. I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: know that you have done literally thousands of autopsies. Is
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: it different when you have to perform an autopsy on
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: a child? Children autopsies are always unfortunate, you know, it's
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: emotionally a little bit more taxing. But if you still
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: follow the same procedures, then you have to come to
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the answers so you can get the information necessary to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: help law enforcement find out who did what or figure
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: out what happened. Would you say, doctor Crowns, that when
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: you have a stranger on stranger child abduction, not when
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: a family member or relative martyrs a child, but stranger
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: on stranger, the motive is usually sex, a sex attack
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: on the child. Yes, typically when it's an unknown individual
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: picking the child up, it is they're a sexual motivation too. Guys,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I want you to hear more from our fans. A
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Khou police A Tanner Horner, a contract driver for FedEx,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: was delivering a package to the Strands home in Wise
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: County when she was abducted. Authorities believe Athena was killed
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: only an hour after she was taken. The video shared
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: with our sister station WFAA that you're Seeing Right Now
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: shows an investigators surrounding that truck in Paradise yesterday afternoon.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Authority say Warner has confessed to talk to taking and
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: killing Athena, and they do not believe that he knew
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the family. He's currently being held in Wise County Jail
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: on a one and a half million dollar bond. This
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: little girl was likely sex assaulted and murdered within one hour.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: This beautiful little life ripped from her family and murdered.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Statistics show stranger on stranger abduction of children result in
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: a murder overwhelmingly within three hours. It brings to mind
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: a mother Aaron Runyon and her gorgeous little girl, Samantha
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: run and the killer Ajandro Avila. Take a listen to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: our cut twenty four our friends from Fox eleven. Little
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Samantha Running was taken from her front yard in Stanton,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: kicking and screaming. Please ask your capture to let you go.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: We love you. She is my sill little Linda. Please
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: let her go. We won't sleep either, were you Alejandra Abula,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: an accused child molester who had beat an earlier charge
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a few years prior, dumped Samantha's body the next day
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: after he took her, abused her, and killed her. Abila
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: now sits on death row for what he did to Samantha.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Another case for the child, and there are so many,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: is murdered within a very short time after the abduction.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Straight out to our special guests got a Johnson psychologist.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: What is the thinking why murder the child and why
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: so quickly after the abduction? Well, there's probably two main reasons.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: One of course, is to avoid detection, and the other
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: is likely simply I'm done using the child. They're done
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: with the child, so there's no point in keeping them.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: So it's like the child is why an empty McDonald's
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: coffee cup. He's throw it away. He used it and
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: get rid of it. You know, Nanty, this is Wendy.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Another reason it could be that a seven year old
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: is verbal. A seven year old is old enough to
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: provide a suspect description, to provide the vehicle. You know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: this isn't a three year old, So perhaps that's also
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: a motivation. Sometimes in let's say older children older being
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: seven or older than that, she would have been able
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: to describe her assailant to say, every time the fat
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: X comes to your house, you got to worry about
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: your children. You know how many times have I been
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: walking or jocking, sometimes with one or both of my
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: twins and I see a truck going slowly behind us
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: or in front of us. I'm like, get off to
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the side. Let mind me see this truck is because
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: they're going so slowly and I don't like that, it's abnormal.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: And then I see it's FedEx truck or an Amazon truck.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, never mind, it's FedEx. Come on, everything's okay.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Not in this case. Take a listen to our cut sixteen.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: This is raywas w FAA. The company also says contract
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: drivers have to go through a criminal history background check
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: through a third party. Horner does not appear to have
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: a prior criminal history. Authorities say Horner confessed to taking
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and killing Athena, and it is currently in the Wise
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: County Jail on a one point five million dollar bond.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: As to the why behind what Horner allegedly did to
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Athena on Wednesday, that is something we don't know yet.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: It's been a really, really tough few days. It hurts
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: our hearts to know that that child died. And more
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: from Special Agent with the FB from Fox and interestingly enough.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: When I was looking at the FedEx page a minute
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: ago about what it takes to become a contractor. There
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: there are some things that they have, some hoops they
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: have to jump through. But one of the things that
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: surprised me is that if you have a felony or
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: any other record, or you're on probation or have been
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: on parole, they're okay with that as long as it's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: been a year since those things passed. Now that's very
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: interesting to me because you know, in this country, if
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you've done something and you're a felon, you probably have
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: a record of doing things. And as we see with
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: this alleged report from this other individual, this person had
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: a history potentially of and most likely of doing these
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: violent things. Yeah, that's a woman, said, a woman who
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: claims that he raped her when she was sixteen years old.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: We don't know the disposition of that case. That's right.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: This guy that FedEx hired has claims in his background
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: that he is a rapist. Take a listen our friends
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: at crime Online. While Tanner Horner doesn't appear to have
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a prior criminal record in Tarrant or Wise Counties, sex
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: assault claims had been made against the thirty one year old.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Twenty three year old Shay Marie from Texas claimed in
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: multiple Facebook posts that Horner allegedly raped her when she
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: was sixteen years old. In one of her posts, Marie
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: shared a screenshot of a text conversation between her and
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Horner's then girlfriend. Marie wrote that Horner quote got her
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: drunk with the intention of having sex. Shay writes she
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: was nearly blackout drunk when Horner raped her, a friend
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: of Marie said, and a social media post that Marie
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: did report the rape to law enforcement. Marie wrote Horner
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: kept touching her, stroking her legs inside and wouldn't stop.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Marie said Horner wouldn't give her his address so she
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: could leave, and wouldn't leave the room so she could change.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Marie says Horner kept asking what he did wrong. Finally
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Marie got ahold of her friend. She ran in the
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: bathroom to hide until her friend and her friend's mother
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: could come pick her up. In a November twenty seventeen
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Facebook post, Marie writes friendly reminder that ten Or Horner
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: is a rapist, and in another from just last September,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Marie wrote that Horner got her drunk to take advantage
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: of her. Yet here he is driving up the driveway
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: that six acre plot and sitting right there, right there
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: is seven year old Athena outside playing. It's not the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: first time a FedEx delivery person has been accused of
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: a sex felony. Take a listen our friends at crime Online.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Last year, a FedEx delivery man in New York was
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: accused of rape and sexual abuse, evolving several teenagers. He
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  Speaker 1: allegedly scouted his victims while driving his route in Duchess County.
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Guiniard, thirty, was charged with two counts of rape,
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  Speaker 1: two counts of criminal Sexual will act, and forcible touching.
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  Speaker 1: WABC reports Guineyard was accused of picking up the girls
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  Speaker 1: in his delivery truck, giving them marijuana, and assaulting them.
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  Speaker 1: In August, another FedEx driver in New York was charged
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  Speaker 1: with murder and arson after an elderly woman's body was
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  Speaker 1: discovered after a house fire. Twenty four year old Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Dotson of Yorkville drove a route near the woman's home.
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  Speaker 1: In March, a FedEx driver in Connecticut was accused of
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  Speaker 1: breaking into a Bridgepoort home, holding a woman and her
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  Speaker 1: children hostage. Lawrent say Tyrek. Herbert twenty had approached the
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  Speaker 1: woman while she was taking a walk and introduced himself
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  Speaker 1: as a FedEx driver. The next morning, while the woman
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  Speaker 1: was making breakfast, Herbert knocked at her door, pointed a
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  Speaker 1: gun at the woman, and forced his way inside. Herbert
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  Speaker 1: ordered the woman to get on the floor. When the
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  Speaker 1: woman screamed in Spanish for her children to run to
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor's house, Herbert began shaking his head and hugging
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  Speaker 1: the victim, telling her, ma'am, I'm sorry, I got the
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  Speaker 1: wrong person. Then he left. The Post reported weeks later
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  Speaker 1: Herbert forced his way into a college student's home and
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  Speaker 1: raped her. Nearly a year ago, a FedEx delivery driver
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  Speaker 1: in western North Carolina was charged with breaking into at
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  Speaker 1: least eleven homes before being captured on surveillance video. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: found several pieces of jewelry and two guns in the
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  Speaker 1: driver's FedEx vehicle. You know, when I see the FedEx
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  Speaker 1: driver pull up the driveway, I usually you can get
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  Speaker 1: a cold water bottle water to give to them and
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  Speaker 1: welcome them, looking forward to whatever package they're bringing. It's
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  Speaker 1: not safe and it's not safe for your children. If
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  Speaker 1: you think you're invincible. You know your children are not.
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  Speaker 1: This step mom could have no idea what was going
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  Speaker 1: to befall Athena that day. From Cherish Periwinkle to Jessica Lonsford,
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  Speaker 1: children are killed within a few hours after their kidnapped
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  Speaker 1: by strangers. Alexis terres Chuck, Where does the case stand now?
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  Speaker 1: Though he is in a custody, he has been arrested
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  Speaker 1: and the police have said that he confessed. They will
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  Speaker 1: not release the detail of confession, but they said he
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  Speaker 1: absolutely confessed and that is how they have charged him
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  Speaker 1: with her murder. Take a listen now to our friends
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  Speaker 1: at k x A S and the grand jury indicted
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  Speaker 1: Tanner Horner on two charges capital murder and aggravated kidnapping.
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  Speaker 1: That makes this a potential death penalty case. Bethina Strand's
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  Speaker 1: mother released this statement through the Tarrn County District Attorney's office.
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  Speaker 1: It reads, I would like to thank the Wise County
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  Speaker 1: Grand Jury for their role in this process. Hearing the
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  Speaker 1: fact and circumstances of my seven year old daughter's kidnapping
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  Speaker 1: and murder was undoubtedly very difficult for them. I want
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  Speaker 1: them to know that their work is deeply appreciated. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: want the death penalty in this case if he is convicted.
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  Speaker 1: Reminded to everyone this occurred in Paradise, Texas, where the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty is absolutely in force. We wait as justice unfalls.
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  Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,