April 8, 2026

SON, BADGE & BODY BAGS: EX-NYPD COP CHARGED IN PARENTS' MURDERS, FEDEX KILLER ON TRIAL & THE MIAMI MODEL WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS FROM THE FUTURE

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A son who allegedly shot his parents over money. A man who killed a seven-year-old because she was going to tell her dad. And a woman who drove 78 miles an hour through a red light high on pink cocaine and told cops she was from the future. Humans. Suck.

Garret Fisher covers three cases that will test your faith in humanity — and your patience for the justice system. A former NYPD officer is charged with shooting his elderly parents to death in their Florida apartment, allegedly motivated by money and a two-hundred-thousand-dollar loan he had no intention of repaying. In Texas, the capital murder trial of Tanner Horner begins — the FedEx driver who confessed to strangling seven-year-old Athena Strand with his bare hands. And in Miami, a judge has had enough: Maecee Lathers, the Instagram model who plowed through a red light while high on a ketamine-based party drug called pink cocaine and killed two men on their way to work, remains behind bars while her attorneys cannot seem to cooperate.

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, Wednesday, April eighth, twenty twenty six.

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I'm Garrett Fisher, and this is Daily Crime Injustice. I

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want to warn you up front. Today's show has a

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lot of awful in it. We're going to cover a

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son who allegedly shot his elderly parents because they were

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planning to finally cut him off. We're going to cover

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the start of a capitol murder trial for a FedEx

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driver who killed a seven year old girl and left

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her body in a river. And we're going to cover

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a woman who got behind the wheel of a Mercedes

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while high on something called pink cocaine, ran a red

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light at seventy eight miles an hour, and killed two

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men who were on their way to work. These are

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the stories I was talking about when I said I

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got into this not because crime is interesting. It's not

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not really. It's boring and sad and repetitive, but because

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the people at the center of it deserve to be named,

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and the systems that handle these cases deserve to be watched.

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So let's do that first. Philip Rapecci Junior, thirty eight

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years old, former NYPD officer. His parents are dead. Police

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say he shot them. His own sister called it, and

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the evidence is about as damning as it gets. Second

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Tanner Land Horner, thirty five years old, former FedEx driver.

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Opening statements began yesterday in Tarrant County, Texas. He's charged

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with capital murder in the death of Athena Strand, seven

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years old. He confessed the defense's play is to keep

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him off death row. This case is going to wreck you.

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And Third Macy Lathers twenty five years old, Instagram model Miami.

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A red light, a Mercedes, two dead men, and a

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judge who is out of patience with everyone in the room.

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Let's get into it. Let me tell you about Philip

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Rapaci Junior, and let me be honest with you about

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how this one lands. Philip Senior and Joeann Rapaci were elderly.

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They lived in Fort Pierce, Florida. They had a son,

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Philip Junior, thirty eight years old, former officer with the

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New York City Police Department, and they had a daughter.

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They had been trying for some time to figure out

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how to live their lives in a way that didn't

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involve their son consuming them. According to investigators, the Rapachees

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were in the process of buying another property, not because

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they wanted a vacation home or an investment, because they

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could no longer tolerate living with their son. Their plan

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was to let Philip Junior have the existing property and

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move somewhere else to get away from him. They were

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trying to escape quietly, without a confrontation. They were buying

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a house to get away from their own child. That

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tells you something, that is the kind of detail that

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sits in your chest. On February time, twenty fourth of

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this year, someone requested a welfare check at the Rapachi apartment.

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That someone was Philip Junior's sister, the couple's daughter. When

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officers arrived, Philip Junior was already at the scene. Body

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camera footage shows him walking toward his parents' apartment, spotting

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the police, and then turning around and walking away. Gets

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in his car drives off Before police got inside. A

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maintenance worker told them that when he went to use

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his keys to open the apartment door, a man came

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to the door, claiming to be the owner and told

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him to leave. The worker described the man as very confrontational.

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Inside the apartment, Philip Senior and Joanne Rapacchi were found

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shot to death on the floor. Philip Senior had gunshot

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wounds to his head and chest. Multiple shots had been

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fired inside the residence, but only one nine millimeter casing

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was recovered at the scene. Philip Junior led police on

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a brief pursuit into neighboring Indian River County before he

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was taken into custody. When investigator searched his car, they

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found a blue tote bag. Inside the tote a box

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of latex gloves, and a plastic bag containing six spent

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shell casings. Those casings had what looked like brain matter

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on them. He is now charged with two counts of

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first degree murder. Here's what investigators learned about the alleged motive.

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Philip Junior had no current job. He was living off

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an NYPD pension. He had borrowed two hundred thousand dollars

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from his parents alone that by all accounts, he had

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no plan to repay, and according to his sister, he was,

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in her words, very motivated by money and always plays

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victim and mental health issues. His sister also told investigators

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something that provides important context. Philip Junior had a history

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of physical violence with his parents. At some point Joanne

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Ripacci had confided to her daughter that Philip Junior had

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placed his hands around her neck and shoved her face

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into a mirror. The parents had reportedly been enduring this

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for someon time before they decided to try to buy

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their way out by just buying another house. When the

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sister was asked by investigators what she thought happened, she

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didn't hesitate. This homicide was fueled by money. Let me

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say the quiet part out loud. A man who swore

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an oath to protect and serve, who carried a badge,

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who was trained to de escalate, who knew exactly how

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crime scenes are processed and how investigations work, allegedly used

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all of that background to walk into his elderly parents'

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apartment and shoot them dead, rather than give back a

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loan he'd spend, or except that they were finally going

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to move on without him. Philip Junior has entered a

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not guilty plead to the fleeing and eluding charges from

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Indian River County. He has not yet entered a plea

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to the murder charges that's coming. Philip Repachi Senior and

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Joanne Repachi, they were trying to move They just wanted peace.

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Someone has to say their names coming up. A seven

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year old girl named Athena Strand was killed by a

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FedEx driver who was afraid she would tell her father.

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That driver confessed, and yesterday a Texas jury started hearing

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the case. This one is hard, but we're going to

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take you through it. I need a moment before I

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tell you this story. Athena Strand was seven years old.

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She lived with her father and stepmother in Cottondale, Texas,

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Wise County out in North Texas. She had a little sister.

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She had a bedroom she shared with that sister in

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a converted storage shed on the property because kids make

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those kinds of spaces into something magical. She was seven.

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She was, by every account, doing everything a seven year

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old is supposed to be doing. November thirtieth, twenty twenty two,

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three and a half years ago. It was the holidays. Actually,

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Athena's mom called nine one one at six forty one

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in the evening because she couldn't find Athena. She was

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t us gone. The family started making calls, checking everywhere. Nothing.

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Investigators started working the timeline. FedEx had delivered a package

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to the Strand home that afternoon. The package was one

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of Athena's Christmas presents. Somebody had ordered her a gift,

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and a man named Tanner Lynn Horner had been the

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one to deliver it. He was working for a contractor

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company called Big Top Spin under a FedEx contract. When

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police tracked Horner down and approached him, he didn't wait

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for them to put it together. He told them what

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he'd done. According to police, Horner said he hit Athena

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with his delivery van while backing out of the driveway.

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He said she wasn't seriously hurt, but he panicked because

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she told him she was going to tell her father

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what happened. He was afraid, and so he made a decision.

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He took her into the van. There is video from

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inside the truck of Horner talking to Athena after he'd

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put her in there. She told him her name. The

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affidavit says he knew he was talking to Athena strand

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she told herself, and then, according to police, he decided

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to kill her. He tried to break her neck, it

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didn't work, so he strangled her with his bare hands,

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and then he led investigators to where he'd left her

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body in the Trinity River about fifteen miles from her home.

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She was missing for two days before her body was found.

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Take a second with that two days. Her family spent

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two days not knowing Tanner. Horner was arrested, indicted in

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February twenty twenty three, and pleaded not guilty to capital

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murder and aggravated kidnapping. The case then went through the

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long grinding machinery of the American legal system, delays, change

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of venue, pre trial hearings, a gag order, more delays.

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The trial was moved from Wise County to Tarrant County

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because the judge concluded Horner couldn't get a fair trial

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in the community where it happened, which fair. A lot

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of people knew Athena. A lot of people were devastated.

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You can't see an impartial jury in a room full

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of grief. Jury selection began April first, Final jury selection finished,

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and yesterday, April seventh, opening statements began in Tarrent County.

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Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Texas law on capital

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murder cases means that after a guilty verdict, the jury

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then has to make two separate findings. First, would this

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defendant be a continuing threat to society. Second, is there

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enough in his background or circumstances to justify something less

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than death. If the jury answers yes to the first

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and no to the second unanimously on both, he gets death.

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If they can't agree at any stage, the sentence becomes

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life in prison without the possibility of parole. The defense

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has two arguments. One, the confession should be suppressed, their

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claiming Horner didn't knowingly or voluntarily waive his Fifth Amendment

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rights before he started talking. The judge has not yet

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ruled on that. If the confession comes in, and most

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legal analysts expect it will, the defense's job on guilt

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gets much harder. As one legal expert put it, If

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that confession comes in, the guilt phase will be pretty

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cut and dry. Two. Autism. Horner has been diagnosed with

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autism spectrum disorder, and his attorneys are arguing that it

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reduces what they call his moral blame worthiness. That argument

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isn't really aimed at winning the guilt phase. It's aimed

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at the sentencing phase. They're trying to give the jury

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a reason to choose life over death. Look, I'm going

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to be honest with you. I understand that autism is real,

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and that it affects people in profound ways. I understand

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that the science on neurodevelopmental conditions and criminal culpability is

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genuinely complicated. None of that changes what happened in that van.

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A child told him her name. She told a man

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who was about to kill her her name, and he

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did it anyway. Her family is in that courtroom. The

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package Horner delivered that day, the one that brought him

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to a driveway, was one of her Christmas presents someone

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had ordered Athena a gift. That gift brought the man

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who killed her to her door. In Athena Strand's memory,

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the Texas legislature created something called the Athena Alert, a

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new system to help law enforcement get information about missing

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children to the public faster. So her name lives on

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in something good. It doesn't fix anything, but it's something.

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The trial is expected to run several weeks will follow it.

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Athena Strand seven years old. She told him her name.

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Someone has to say your name. Athena coming up Miami,

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an Instagram model, a Mercedes, a drug called pink cocaine,

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two men who were just trying to get to work,

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and a judge who is officially run out of patience. Okay,

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third story, and this one is a different kind of awful,

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So the kind where you keep stopping and saying wait

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and then what because it just keeps getting worse. August tenth,

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twenty twenty four, Miami, early morning, around seven am, Abraham

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Molina and Jesus Rubio are in a Suzuki on their

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way to work. Molina's fiance, Juanita Hernandez, is with them.

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Three people early morning going to their jobs. Coming the

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other direction a Mercedes ben sedan driven by a twenty

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five year old from New York named Macy Lathers, who

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describes herself as an Instagram model. She had a suspended license.

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Investigators say she was high on a drug called pink cocaine.

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It goes by the name to S or to C

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and it's a ketamine based party drug, and she ran

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a red light. The Mercedes hit the suzuki. Abraham Molina

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and Jesus Rubio were killed. Juanita Hernandez, Molina's fiance, was injured.

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Lathers tried to flee the scene, bystander stopped her. Here's

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where it gets into a different category entirely when police

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body cameras turned on at the scene. Lathers was on

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the ground vomiting in the street, and she started telling

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officers her name was Mercedes, not Macy Mercedes, and that

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she was from the future. She was not from the future,

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she was from New York and she was very, very high.

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The toxicology came back confirming drug use. Investigators also noted

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she had accelerated, not slowed, accelerated from fifty seven miles

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an hour to seventy eight miles an hour right before

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the crash at one hundred percent throttle. The charges piled

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up vehicular homicide, reckless driving, driving on a suspended license,

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leaving the scene, and then after the toxicology results came

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in dui manslaughter two accounts, one for Abraham Molina one

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for Jesus Rubio. She initially posted bail and was placed

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under house arrest with GPS monitoring. That ended when the

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manslaughter charges came in. She was sent back to jail.

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A judge looked at everything the crash, the flight, the

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drug use, the suspended license and said she was extremely dangerous.

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Bond denied. She remains in jail. Her attorneys tried at

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one point to get her iPhone and iPad returned to

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her while she waited. That was also denied. Now April

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first status hearing, the case is still working its way

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through the system, no trial date set yet, and the

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judge who has been presiding over this mess has apparently

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had enough of the lawyers. At the status hearing, the

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judge scolded both sides, prosecution and defense, for their inability

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to work together. She reportedly told them in open court

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that if they couldn't cooperate on depositions, she was going

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to have to attend and essentially babysit the proceedings herself,

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a sitting judge threatening to personally supervise attorney depositions because

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they can't behave like adults. That's not great, That's not

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how a case moves efficiently toward accountability. And in the meantime,

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Abraham Molina's family, including the fiancee who was in that

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car with him, is waiting. Jesus Rubio's family is waiting.

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They've been waiting since August of twenty twenty four, a

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year and a half, and the case hasn't made it

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to trial yet. Look, I'm not going to pretend this

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is the same weight as Athena strand or what happened

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to the rapaces. The death of two men going to

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work because someone decided to drive while high is different

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in its character from what we talked about earlier, but

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it's not different in its consequence. Abraham Molina and Jesus

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Rubio are just as dead, their families are just as

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without them. And the detail that keep nagging at me,

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she had a suspended license. She already wasn't supposed to

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be driving. That's not a mistake, that's a choice. That's

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not a moment of bad judgment. Driving with a suspended

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license is a sustained, ongoing decision to disregard the rules

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that exist to protect other people at drugs at a

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throttle floor to full at a red light, and two

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men don't make it home. Macy Lathers faces up to

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thirty years in prison if convicted on the manslaughter charges.

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No trial date has been set. Abraham Molina, Jesus Rubio

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on their way to work. Someone has to say your names.

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That's daily Crime and Justice for Wednesday, April eighth, twenty

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twenty six. Philip Rapazzi, Junior, former NYPD officer, charged with

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two counts of first degree murder for the shooting deaths

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of his parents, Philip sor And and Joanne Ripachi in

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their Fort Pierce, Florida apartment, a two hundred thousand dollars loan,

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a pension he was living off, a sister who saw

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it coming, and a bag in his car with brain

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matter on the shell casings. He hasn't entered a plea

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to the murder charges yet he will Tanner Lin Horner.

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Opening statements began yesterday in Tarrant County, Texas for the

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capital murder of seven year old Athena Strand. He confessed

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he tried to break her neck and then strangled her.

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She told him her name. The defense is fighting to

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save him from the death penalty with an autism argument.

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The trial continues and Macy leathers pink cocaine suspended license

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seventy eight miles an hour through a red light. Abraham

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Molina and Jesus Rubio are dead. A judge is threatening

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to babysit. Lawyer depositions, no trial dates set still waiting.

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