Tanner Lynn Horner, the FedEx driver who admitted to kidnapping and murdering a seven-year-old Texas girl, Athena Strand, had also allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl named Shay Marie back in 2014. 

Marie, currently aged 23, has repeatedly talked about Horner’s crime against her on social media. 

Horner admitted to snatching Strand from the driveway of her family home in Paradise, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon, last week. She was found dead on Friday and the authorities have said that she was likely killed within an hour of her kidnapping.

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Who is Shay Marie?

In 2018, Marie posted a series of screenshots of text conversations she had with friends and with Horner’s then-girlfriend.

“On a Friday night, [Horner] got me drunk with the intention of having sex with me. I was nearly blackout drunk when he decided to rape me. I couldn’t physically fight him. My body wouldn’t move,” one of the texts said. “The next day, I was still out of it… It was just Tanner and I. I had almost no recollection of the night before at this point. We did acid. We were fine until they come down. I was laying down and had my back to him.”

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The victim said that she constantly kept pushing away Horner’s hand as he kept touching him. “Started having bad anxiety. I was frozen. I cried. He was stroking my legs and side, talking about my most recent ex at the time. He wouldn’t stop,” she wrote. “He wouldn’t give me his address so I could leave. He wouldn’t leave the room so I could change. He kept demanding I talked to him, asking what he did wrong. He acted innocent. He began cutting himself behind me. I got a hold of my friend. I had to run and hide in the bathroom. Her and and her mom came and got me. By the time it was at this point, it was about 8 am on Sunday morning. I haven’t spoken to him since.”

A friend of Marie’s said in a post on social media that Marie did report the rape to law enforcement. Marie wrote in a November 2019 Facebook post: “Friendly reminder that Tanner Horner is a rapist.”

In another post from last September, she said: “I am 23. The man who assaulted when I was 16 was 23. We were ‘friends,’ he tried convincing me to date him and I declined. We stayed ‘friends’ until he could get me inebriated enough to take advantage of me – a 16-year-old child. I could never in a million years imagine being friends with a 16-year-old now, let alone trying to date/sleep with a 16-year-old. I will never understand it.”