BREAKING FedEx driver accused of killing 7-year-old girl in Texas confessed to strangling her after hitting her with van, warrant says
delivered her Christmas present --Barbie dolls -- before the girl's disappearance, her mother said Thursday.CNN reported
Athena disappeared from the driveway of her home in Wise County, Texas on November 30. After a county-wide search, her body was recovered Friday evening, according to Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin. Authorities believe she was killed within an hour of her alleged kidnapping, but her cause of death is still under investigation, Akin said Friday.
Investigators said he told then that Strand wasn't seriously hurt after he hit her while backing up, but he panicked and put her in his van. He said she was talking to him and told him her name, the affidavit said.Gandy said her goal is to affect change in hiring policies "so that monsters wearing delivery uniforms don't show up on our children's doorsteps."
"The ultimate goal here is to ensure that no parent, or grandparent, or family member feels the loss that Maitlyn's going through right now," Varghese said.
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