The daughter of an alleged serial killer victim has criticized Ohio’s attorney general for “shaming” the men targeted by the sex worker accused of fatally drugging and robbing them.
Rebecca Auborn, 33, is accused of killing four customers, including Christyn Crockett’s father Wayne Akin, a former postal worker who struggled with drug addiction.
When AG Dave Yost announced charges against the sex worker last month, he said, “Don’t buy sex in Ohio; it ruins lives and could cost you yours.”
In an interview with NBC News, Crockett said Yost’s statement was “devastating” and careless toward the families of Auborn’s alleged victims.
Crockett explained, “He’s not wrong. But for the sake of the victims, it’s just so insensitive.”
Sex worker Rebecca Auborn, 33, is accused of fatally drugging and robbing four clients
One of Auborn’s alleged victims, Wayne Akin, a former postal worker who struggled with drug addiction, is pictured above
In a video statement announcing Auborn’s charges, Ohio Attorney General Yost said, “Our message is simple: Don’t buy sex in Ohio!”
Her husband Itai Crockett added: “It was just victimhood. (The victims) have family and grandchildren; they have people who care about them.”
But Yost stands by his warning, telling NBC that while he understands the family’s trauma, they “weren’t his audience.”
“My audience was the many, many men who buy sex every day, who are complicit in human trafficking and who behave dangerously,” Yost said. ‘There is no sensitive way to talk about bad things. You are not doing anyone a favor or a favor if you do not openly talk about evil.”
Auborn has pleaded not guilty to killing four men with lethal doses of fentanyl to rob them between December 2022 and June 2023. She is also charged with the attempted murder of a fifth man who survived the attack.
She is accused of meeting men for sex at hotels in northeast Columbus, giving them lethal doses of fentanyl and stealing from them.
Police looked into her name after someone gave a tip about a woman Johns met to drug and rob them.
The suspected serial killer could claim more victims, with authorities warning their investigation is still ongoing.
Court records show that Auborn admitted to investigators on March 31 that she had put fentanyl in a man’s crack pipe and that she knew he was overdosing when she left the hotel room and took his car and bank card.
Auborn has at least one child and a daughter who died in 2016 at just 18 days old.
Akin’s daughter Christyn Crockett said of the AG’s comments: “He’s not wrong. But for the sake of the victims, it’s just so insensitive.”
The suspected serial killer could claim more victims, with authorities warning their investigation is still ongoing
Auborn is accused of meeting men for sex at hotels in northeast Columbus, giving them lethal doses of fentanyl and stealing from them
She had no prior criminal history.
AG Yost previously said Auborn meets the criteria for a serial killer because the four deaths she is accused of follow a similar pattern.
“If you have someone who committed a series of murders separated in time, to me that’s a serial killer,” Yost told the Columbus Dispatch.
‘We have the same MO here.
‘I have never seen a similar case in my career, and after speaking to colleagues, they have not seen this kind of thing.
Anyone with information about overdose deaths between December and August has been asked to contact the police homicide tip line.
While everyone who has spoken to her has been asked to come forward without fear of prosecution if they asked for sex.