A female serial killer and mom has pleaded guilty to drugging four men with fentanyl and robbing them after meeting them at hotels for sex.
Rebecca Auborn, 36, of Columbus, Ohio, admitted to the grisly string of fatal drug overdoses at a hearing on Friday.
Her murderous rampage was only brought to an end after one of her victims survived the overdose and went to the police, according to court records seen by the Columbus Dispatch.
Auborn killed her four victims — Joseph Crumpler, 30; Robert Snoke, 54; Wayne Akin, 64; and Guy Renda, 42 — by dosing them with narcotics, including the extremely potent synthetic opioid fentanyl, after luring them to hotels for sex.
She told detectives in one case she mixed fentanyl in a man’s crack pipe during their encounter, court records show.
Auborn said she knew the man was overdosing, but took his vehicle and debit card, court records show.
All of the deaths took place between January and June 2023 at hotels in the northeast of Columbus.
The man who survived met Auborn for sex on Dec. 13, 2022, and was able to provide police with enough information to lead to her arrest and charging in 2023, court documents show.
Auborn had no significant criminal history before her murders started, court records seen by the Columbus Dispatch show.
She has at least one daughter and had a second daughter who died at 18 days old in 2016, records show.
Auborn pleaded guilty to four counts of murder and one count of felonious assault. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 20.
She faces mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole for 15 years for each of the four murder charges and a maximum of 11 to 16 and a half years in prison for the felonious assault charge.
Judge Karen Held Phipps will decide whether Auborn’s prison sentences will run concurrently or consecutively.
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