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“Public Execution Is NOT Enough” - Athena Strand Killer BLAMES Voices For Her Murder
10 Apr 2026
Chapter 1: What happened in the tragic case of Athena Strand?
This guy who in North Texas, Rob, if you want to play this clip, this guy I have zero tolerance for in North Texas who is delivering a Barbie doll. He's an independent contractor for FedEx. He's a driver. While he's delivering this Barbie doll to the seven-year-old, he asked the kid to come, and this is November of 2022, if I'm not mistaken with the dates. She comes in the truck.
And then nobody knows what happens. The kid disappears. Everyone's trying to find out what happens. He apparently covers the camera, okay? So nobody will see what he ends up doing to her. And now in court this week, while they had the court, during court they played the audio. It's not public. We don't have it. But they're showing voice how the kid was fighting him, fighting for her life,
And he ends up killing her. He ends up killing her, the seven-year-old kid that he was delivering a Barbie to. He ends up killing her. Then while he's going through and he says, I cannot believe, what does he say? I will not be able to see.
He said, I'm not going to be able to see. I can't believe this. I'm going to miss Christmases with my children and all that. He's trying to make them feel bad for him because he's not going to be able to see his kids ever again.
And then his claim is he heard what?
He heard a voice in his head named Zero that told him to do all these things and told him to kill her.
A voice named Zero. Now, if you guys haven't seen Primal Fear, you guys know if you're friends with me, you're going to watch Primal Fear with me. If you've seen Primal Fear with Edward Norton, what is the story of Primal Fear about with Richard Gere and Edward Norton?
He kills this priest because, you know, all this abuse and all this stuff. Born and all this stuff. And then he acts like he's crazy and he has multiple personality syndrome. What is that time where you switch?
At the very end where he asks him, well, then how did you know and how did you remember? Ed Norton stops and goes, that one was for you. That was a work of art.
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Chapter 2: What claims did the suspect make during the court proceedings?
Horner was heard accusing a voice in his mind named Zero of making him kill her. I'm going to miss out on all my son's Christmases, birthdays growing up, and I'm going to miss out on everything, all because I listened to the stupid voice that isn't probably even there. Do you want to play this audio real quick on what he's saying to the cops? Go for it.
I don't even miss out on the first birth of my child. Okay? I can't. Well, I don't know that I would say that. I mean... This is one of those probation things. This is one of those... I'm going away for a long time things. I don't even miss out all of my... That's how life works.
Yeah. You're going to miss out on that. The parents of Athena are never going to see her.
Can you go to the other one, Rob, that the reports of what was said
In court, when... The lawyer? Yeah. The prosecutor? Yeah. Is this it, or is it the other one? Yeah, that's right up. Show more?
Yep.
Show more, Rob. Go on to show more top. Yeah, right there. We have DNA. Not only do we have initial DNA from Athena that has Tanner Horner's, we also have Tanner Horner's DNA in places where you shouldn't find DNA on a seven-year-old girl. Okay, so here's a question. What should happen to Tanner Horner? Honestly, North Texas, what should happen to Tanner Horner?
You already know. What should happen to him? We need deterrence, and it needs to be severe. You know, you need your day in court. We don't arrest people on day one and take them out back and just execute them against a brick wall. But once they have their day in court and it's all things like this and he's confessing to it, there needs to be deterrence. There needs to be absolute deterrence.
And I studied what Chuck Colson, who was a Watergate co-conspirator who did Time and came in and then did his life trying to serve in the prison system, Pat.
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Chapter 3: How did the suspect try to justify his actions?
And what he said was there was no longer deterrence. And the recidivation rate was because prison had become crime college. We need deterrence. And back in like 1980, there was a movie called Scared Straight. And it wasn't like straight gay. It was scared straight, like to the straight path and not to be committing crime.
And it scared the hell out of young men of all colors of the realities of what was going on inside prisons. And so there, what you found was deterrence because people were scared to death of the consequence. People are no longer scared to death of the consequence. Liberals will commute your sentences and get things. There needs to be deterrence, and there needs to be a rough outcome here.
We're not barbaric, but there can be absolutely rough outcomes that cause people to think twice about it.
Patrick, you know, at the beginning you said, what do you do with people who don't have a fear of death or who don't have a fear of God? Well, the example you make out of them is not for them because they can't be cured and they can't be redeemed. It's for others. And so, you know, I'm not going back. Public hanging, I know people would say it has to be public. It has to be visceral.
It has to be shocking to anybody else out there who would ever even dream of doing something so dark and sinister. I don't think we're going to get there. Life and, you know, just throw away the key or swift execution would be one thing.
In this particular case, though, one of the attenuating details, because we're going to compare it to the North Carolina one, is whether or not this guy's actually crazy.
By what I understood from the case, he accidentally struck the girl, and then it sounds like he panicked after he hit her with the vehicle, then put her in the vehicle, and you can now sort of understand what this guy's thinking is like, I just hit this girl with my car, I'm going to lose my job, I'm going to ruin my kid's Christmas.
And so then, in that moment, not a history of schizophrenia, the guy says... reacting like a dumb criminal. I'm going to kill this girl. This is how I'm going to hide my accident, keep my job, not ruin my kid's Christmas, and murder a seven-year-old girl to cover up for my initial crime. I mean, that's how I would frame this. And then he talks about a voice in his head. You're a lawyer, no?
No, but then he makes up a voice in his head. Well, if I plead insanity, if I look crazy, then maybe I'll get a softer deal.
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Chapter 4: What evidence was presented against the suspect in court?
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Chapter 5: What is the public's reaction to the suspect's defense?
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