OH - Rebecca Auborn, Columbus woman indicted in serial killings, 25 October 2023

[DS2021]

Was there another woman involved?

Columbus woman indicted, accused of fatally drugging men to steal while meeting for sex

A Columbus woman was indicted on more charges, including four murder counts, for allegedly dosing men paying for sex with drugs to steal from them.

abc6onyourside.com

She reportedly confessed to a Columbus police detective that she engaged a man for sex with another woman and directed the other woman to dose the johns, the charging document for the original aggravated robbery charge filed in September said.

 

[nerosleuth]

I believe that the murders she committed were premeditated as she knew that the drugs were laced with fentanyl. And since she also intended to harm and rob her victims, I can't understand why she was charged with murder rather than the more serious charge of aggravated murder in Ohio.

 

[lonetraveler]

This woman looks older than 33 to me.

I'm thinking the very same thing.

 

[azure]

From a September article,

Rebecca Auborn, 33, who does not have a specific street address, is facing charges of aggravated robbery, felonious assault, murder, corrupt with drugs, aggravated trafficking in drugs and involuntary manslaughter.

Woman indicted on murder charges, was previously held for 3 felonies

abc6onyourside.com

I don't want to make apologies for this woman, obviously she killed 4 people and should spend the rest of her life in prison. But I think she was an extremely desperate addict living on the margins of society without the means to premeditate murder. I think she thought she'd give them fentanyl, a drug she was obviously addicted to, and they'd go to sleep and she'd rob them. I wonder if she even knew they'd died afterwards except for word on the street.

 

[nerosleuth]

The Columbus Dispatch newspaper has identified the victims of Rebecca Auborn. The newspaper article stated that Auborn intended to rob her victims by giving them fentanyl without their knowledge. Only one of the victims died in a hotel room and the other victims either died at their home or were found outside in a residential area.

And since fentanyl is a extremely dangerous drug, it very well could be possible that there could be more victims that had an encounter with Auborn that later died at a different location. It's possible that their deaths were thought to be medical or natural causes rather than an apparent overdose.


Source:

4 victims of accused serial killer identified

 

[arielilane]

Female serial killers are rare. The case of Rebecca Auborn is reminiscent of the Aileen Wuornos case. May her victims rest in peace.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728570351389696383

When Ohio’s top prosecutor announced the arrest of a sex worker accused of drugging and killing four customers, he failed to consider the victims and instead shamed them, the family of one victim said.

"Don’t buy sex in Ohio — it ruins lives and could cost you yours,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said last month in a news releasedetailing the indictment of serial killing suspect Rebecca Auborn, who was also charged with trying to kill a fifth customer.

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Ohio AG’s 'don’t buy sex' statement after arrest of sex worker charged with 4 deaths outrages victim’s family

Rebecca Auborn has been charged with fatally drugging four people and attempting to kill a fifth.

www.nbcnews.com

Nov. 25, 2023

 

[wendybtn]

As a 30YO myself, she looks closer to my mum's age than mine!

The lifestyle of a sex worker ages you, plus whatever other problems she struggles with.

 

[nerosleuth]

Rebecca Auborn pleaded guilty in December 2025 to four counts of murder and one count of felonious assault. Auborn appeared in court on Thursday for sentencing on the charges that she pled guilty to. She was sentenced to a prison term of 60 years to life in prison.


Columbus woman to spend decades in prison after admitting to four fentanyl overdose deaths

Rebecca Auborn was sentenced by a judge on Thursday after she pleaded guilty to four counts of murder and a count of felonious assault.

The judge sentenced Auborn to four consecutive life sentences for the four murders, ordering her to serve 60 years in prison before being eligible for parole. The judge also imposed a fifth sentence for felonious assault, tied to a man who was drugged and survived the attack. That sentence will be served concurrently with the murder sentences.

Columbus woman to spend decades in prison after admitting to four fentanyl overdose deaths


Woman convicted in Columbus 'serial killings' sentenced to 60 years to life in prison

A woman convicted on murder charges after she met men for sex and drugged them so she could rob them was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison.

Rebecca Auborn pleaded guilty to four counts of murder and one count of felonious assault and received four consecutive terms of 15 years to life in prison Thursday. She pleaded not guilty to 28 various counts in 2023, which included murder, drug, robbery, corruption and tampering with evidence charges.

Woman convicted in Columbus 'serial killings' sentenced to 60 years to life in prison



WSYX-TV in Columbus, Ohio carried the Rebecca Auborn Court Sentencing Hearing on their YouTube Channel.


Rebecca Auborn Court Sentencing Hearing

Rebecca Auborn Court Sentencing Hearing