After a two-week hearing, a jury chose to execute Horner by lethal injection rather than sentence him to life without parole.

The trial of Tanner Horner resumed Wednesday, April 15, with the jury hearing about DNA and video evidence in the killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand and the day concluded with emotional testimony ...

Athena Strand was a strong, independent child who loved life, her mother testified Wednesday during the seventh day of Tanner Horner’s capital murder trial in Tarrant County. Maitlyn Gandy, wearing a ...

Prosecutors continued their case for the death penalty against Tanner Horner, who has already pleaded guilty to the 2022 murder and kidnapping of 7-year-old Athena Strand. Jurors heard emotional ...

Male DNA found on Athena Strand's rape kit A forensic analyst testified during Tanner Horner's murder trial that male DNA was found on Athena Strand's rape kit. FOX 4's Peyton Yager has more on the ...

Disturbing video played in a Texas courtroom shows the former FedEx driver who pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old Athena Strand flipping between personalities as his defense argues his life should ...

Scientists have found that DNA polymerases can write long, structured stretches of new genetic material without any template to copy. That finding reframes a long-known but overlooked behavior as a ...

The authors adapt sequencing of nascent DNA (DNA linked to an RNA primer, "SNS-Seq") to map DNA replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei. The main impact of this work is reporting a new set of ...

A former FedEx driver who murdered 7-year-old Athena Strand told investigators he "kind of tossed" her into the woods after killing her, according to interrogation video shown to jurors as they weigh ...

Killer FedEx driver Tanner Horner may have sexually assaulted 7-year-old Athena Strand before her twisted murder – which the sicko meticulously planned out in advance, a Texas prosecutor said. The ...

New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent—an ability to create entirely new and highly sophisticated DNA sequences from ...