A 36‑year‑old woman from Columbus, Ohio, admitted to murdering four men by drugging them with the highly potent synthetic opioid fentanyl. The cases, which spanned from January to June 2023, involved men who had agreed to meet her for sex in hotel rooms across the city’s northeast corridors.
Rebecca Auborn pleaded guilty in a Columbus court this Friday, accepting responsibility for the four murders and an additional charge of felonious assault. Her crimes came to light after one of her intended victims survived an overdose and turned to the police with testimony that led investigators to her.
The victims – Joseph Crumpler (30), Robert Snoke (54), Wayne Akin (64) and Guy Renda (42) – all ended up dead after she allegedly mixed fentanyl into their crack pipes or otherwise administered the drug during their encounters. In court records, detectives note how she “knew the man was overdosing, but took his vehicle and debit card.”
Auborn says she used the victims’ vehicles and credit cards, and that she mixed fentanyl directly into a crack pipe during one meeting. The surviving client, who met her on Dec. 13, 2022, provided enough details for police to secure Auborn’s arrest in 2023.
Evidence shows Auborn had no prior criminal record before these killings. She is a mother to a daughter and suffered the loss of a second daughter, who died at 18 days old in 2016.
She will be sentenced on Feb. 20. If each murder sentence is served concurrently, she faces life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. The felonious assault charge carries a maximum term of 11 years. Judge Karen Held Phipps will determine whether the sentences run consecutively or concurrently.
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