Killer FedEx driver Tanner Horner made the outrageous request to spend a month with his son during Christmas after strangling seven-year-old Athena Strand, police interview footage reveals.
The deranged 34-year-old driver is shown trying to make the baffling bargain with Texas cops in exchange for handing over information about the murder, according to a video shown to a jury Thursday.
“I imagine that you have, basically, a list and bullet points that you want to know from me,” he tells investigators in the footage, shot in an interrogation room in November 2022.
“There’s only one thing in this world that I want,” Horner said, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.
“I want a month.”
“Even if y’all have to put an ankle monitor on me, GPS monitor, check-ups with you,” he adds.
“If you give me a month with my family, so I can have Christmas with my son, I’ll tell you everything.”
Police, however, told him his request was likely impossible because he was under arrest for murdering a child,the NY Post reports.
“Either way, that’s basically my price,” Horner fired back defiantly.
Before jurors at his murder trial were shown the footage, they were told by prosecutors that Horner had requested the interview with police.
His entitled request was ultimately not granted.
Horner abducted Athena from her house in Lake Worth, Texas, on November 30, 2022, as he delivered a box of Barbies that were meant to be a Christmas gift for her.
He strangled her in his truck before heartlessly tossing her body into a nearby wooded area.
Horner first lied to police, claiming he accidentally ran into the girl with his truck before “accidentally” killing her in a panic.
Horner pleaded guilty to murder earlier this week.
The jury is now tasked with sentencing him.
He faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
The article first appeared in the NY Post and was republished with permission.
