A woman whom Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost called a "serial killer" admitted on Dec. 19 to causing the fatal overdoses of four men who had met her for sex.
Rebecca Auborn, 36, from Columbus, pleaded guilty to four counts of murder and one count of felonious assault in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. She is scheduled to appear at a sentencing hearing Feb. 20.
Columbus police arrested and charged Auborn in 2023 in the four overdose deaths, which occurred at Northeast Side hotels in Columbus.
According to court records, Auborn met with the men for sexual encounters. During those encounters, she would give the men drugs and rob them. Four men died, but a fifth lived. The survivor helped lead police to Auborn, court records say.
Her meetings with the men took place at hotels on the Northeast Side, particularly along Interstate 71, State Route 161, Cleveland Avenue, and East 17th Avenue. The fatal overdoses occurred on Jan. 15, 2023, April 1, 2023, April 13, 2023, and April 17, 2023. The man who survived met Auborn on Dec. 13, 2022.
