Moments after Tanner Horner picked up Athena Strand and placed the 7-year-old in his FedEx truck, the confused little girl wanted to know what was going on. “Are you a kidnapper?” she could be heard asking him in video footage from inside the truck that was shown to jurors in Horner’s sentencing trial. As PEOPLE…
Toxic Childhood: A Life Surrounded by Drugs, Reptiles, and Neglect A heartbreaking tragedy has unfolded that paints a horrifying picture of a child’s life surrounded by danger, neglect, and substances no child should ever encounter. Two-year-old CJ Croxton Jr. died under circumstances that have stunned authorities and the public alike. The toxic cocktail of neglect,…
The maniac who slaughtered seven of his children and one of their cousins in Louisiana on Sunday was set to do battle with his estranged wife in divorce court Monday. Stress-riddled Army vet Shamar Elkins, 31, called his mom, Mahelia Elkins, and stepdad, Marcus Jackson, on Easter Sunday to tell them that his wife of two years,…
FORT WORTH, Texas – More than three years after the death of Athena Strand, the capital murder trial for Tanner Horner began with a guilty plea. Horner, a former delivery driver accused of kidnapping and strangling the 7-year-old after hitting her with his van in 2022, admitted to her capital murder in a Tarrant County courthouse on…
THEY WERE JUST STANDING OUTSIDE — THEN GUNFIRE ERUPTED AND THREE LIVES WERE GONE IN SECONDS THEY WERE JUST STANDING OUTSIDE — THEN GUNFIRE ERUPTED AND THREE LIVES WERE GONE IN SECONDS It was an ordinary Friday afternoon. The kind of moment that blends into everyday life. People outside. Conversations happening. Cars passing by….