The father of slain 7-year-old Athena Strand has filed a lawsuit against the delivery driver suspected of killing the girl, FedEx Ground, and Big TopSpin, the third-party contractor who hired the suspect.
Jacob Strand is seeking more than $1 million in damages in a jury trial, according to the lawsuit filed in the Wise County District Court on Tuesday (pdf).
Strand’s daughter Athena went missing on Nov. 30 from her family’s home in Paradise, Texas, a rural community about 40 miles northwest of Fort Worth.
Two days later, according to the arrest warrant affidavit, Tanner Horner, a FedEx driver who delivered a package to the home about the time Athena disappeared, allegedly admitted he killed the girl. Horner, 31, led authorities to her body in the nearby town of Boyd….