Overview
- Jacob Strand, who testified Thursday morning, described his daughter's spirit and asked jurors to make the right decision on punishment.
- Prosecutors played new surveillance from Horner’s FedEx truck that captured him driving past the active search near Athena’s home on Dec. 1, 2022.
- The court plans to play a recording from inside the delivery truck later Thursday for jurors only, with no livestream or public feed.
- Tanner Horner pleaded guilty last week to capital murder and kidnapping, and the jury now must choose between the death penalty and life without parole.
- The case led Texas to create the Athena Alert, which lets officials issue Amber-style messages more broadly when a child is reported missing.