'Graphic and dark' evidence found at Philadelphia home points to possible serial killer



A simple traffic stop led police to a massive trove of evidence that could implicate a 44-year-old man in the alleged murders of at least four women.

Eugene Horsch was pulled over in June by officers and found to be in possession of a fraudulent Drug Enforcement Agency identification, thousands of dollars' worth of drugs, and two illegal guns.

One troubling piece of evidence found was a handwritten note about the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.

His passenger also had a fake identification bearing the name of Blair Tonzelli, a missing woman.

Police searched Horsch's home on West Chew Avenue in the Olney section of Philadelphia and found evidence that two women reported missing had been at the home. They also found files showing the two women dead, according to police.

The bodies of the two missing women, Maribel Fresses and Gabrielle Amarando, have not been found.

Fresses had been missing since 2018, and Amarando had been missing since 2012.

Officers are sifting through the massive amount of evidence that includes 600,000 images, 70,000 videos, and more than 10,000 pages of writings, manuscripts, and drawings.

Investigators also found a fake identification for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an illegal gun, gun parts, five urns with possible human remains, "120 pieces of ballistic evidence," and a marijuana growing operation.

Police are testing 20 containers of unknown substances seized from what they described as a basement laboratory.

"They're going through that house with a fine-tooth comb, if you will. I mean, they're going to be looking for the tiniest fragment of forensic evidence that can tie him to victims and missing persons," said former FBI agent JJ Klaver to WGAL-TV.

The home was also the last known location of another missing woman named Amy McHale. She disappeared in 2016, and her family believes something happened to her at the house.

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Another troubling piece of evidence found was a handwritten note about the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.

The man remains in custody as the search continues at the mysterious home in Olney.

Horsch's father, Raymond Charles Horsch, had also lived at the home before he died in 2025.

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Victims' families roast 'demon' Gilgo Beach serial killer; judge's parting shot sparks courtroom cheers



New York serial killer Rex Heuermann will die in prison after being sentenced to multiple life terms without parole for killing seven women and admitting to murdering an eighth victim. The victims' heartbroken families appeared in court and castigated the serial killer as a "coward," a "monster," and an "ogre."

Heuermann in April pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in the first degree and four counts of murder in the second degree for the murders of seven women, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.

'You're a disgusting, small man, if you're a man at all.'

The DA's office added that Heuermann admitted "publicly, as part of his allocution, to killing an eighth victim, Karen Vergata" in 1996.

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said in a statement that state Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei sentenced 62-year-old Heuermann to three consecutive life sentences plus 100 years without the possibility of parole.

Tierney stated:

For the families of these eight young women who have waited decades for this day, your voices have been heard. Rex Heuermann will now serve the rest of his life in prison for taking the lives of your loved ones. None of the success of the Gilgo Beach Task Force would have been possible without your relentless dedication and assistance. You are the reason we do what we do. I also extend my heartfelt thanks to all the talented investigators from the partner agencies in our task force for their amazing work.

NBC News reported that Heuermann was charged with the deaths of 20-year-old Jessica Taylor, 22-year-old Megan Waterman, 24-year-old Melissa Barthelemy, 24-year-old Valerie Mack, 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 27-year-old Amber Costello, and 28-year-old Sandra Costilla.

Grieving family members confronted the serial killer and delivered gut-wrenching victim impact statements during the hearing.

The New York Post reported that Amanda Funderburg — whose sister, Melissa Barthelemy, was strangled to death by Heuermann in 2009 — told the convicted killer: "Look at me while I'm talking."

"I was forced to live with crippling anxiety, depression, PTSD, and destroyed nervous system constantly staring at my phone," Funderburg said in court.

According to court documents, Heuermann called and taunted Funderburg's family with grisly details of Barthelemy's murder.

Funderburg told the Gilgo Beach serial killer that "several times you had called me from my sister’s phone telling me she was a whore."

At the time of the murder, Funderburg was only 15 years old.

"I was robbed of my youth, I was robbed of my young adulthood, and I still feel robbed today," Funderburg said, according to People magazine.

"Do me a favor — save me a spot in hell, because I'll see you there," Funderburg proclaimed.

According to NBC News, Funderburg blasted Heuermann as an "ogre," a "repulsive monster," and a "demon inside and out."

Melissa Cann — whose sister Maureen Brainard-Barnes was slain by Heuermann — ripped the killer as a "coward."

"Rex, I noticed a slight smile,” Cann said in court. "There is no honor in this. You're a coward who hid behind a mask. You hunted and murdered to satisfy the darkness within you."

"You are a coward who preyed on vulnerable, innocent women behind a mask, a man without empathy, without a soul, who hunted, tortured, and murdered women,” Cann continued.

Nicolette Brainard-Barnes — Maureen's daughter — was only 7 years old when her mother was murdered.

“I was a little girl, and I needed my mom," the distraught daughter said. "Like every sex worker, my mother was an entire human being. You make me sick, and I don't forgive you."

PBS noted that Heuermann said he strangled his victims — a number of whom were sex workers — and dismembered some of their bodies.

JoAnn Mack — the adoptive mother of Valerie Mack — said at the hearing, "Justice has been done, but it can't replace what has been taken. She had dreams, and you took them all away from her."

Jasmine Robinson — the cousin of Jessica Taylor — said of Heuermann's sentence, "A million years isn't enough. Nothing will ever make this right."

Elizabeth Meserve — the aunt of Megan Waterman — blasted those who profited off "The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets," a Peacock documentary about the murders that haunted Long Island for more than three decades.

The Post reported that the series featured exclusive interviews with Heuermann’s ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, and daughter, Victoria Heuermann — and added that they both "were reportedly compensated for participating."

"These individuals profited from the monstrous acts committed against our loved ones by the demon sitting in this courtroom,” Meserve declared.

"This is the kind of world we live in," Meserve noted. "A demon tortures and kills our loved ones, and his family gets filthy rich off his crimes."

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Heuermann told the court, "There are no words that I can say. The words I would say have no meaning."

Judge Mazzei slammed the serial killer, "You're a disgusting, small man, if you're a man at all. And you're a coward."

The judge then ordered, "Get him out of here," which elicited cheers from the distraught family members.

The Guardian reported that Heuermann’s ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, did not attend the sentencing hearing "out of respect for those who endured unimaginable loss and suffering."

Her attorney said, "She does not wish her presence to distract from the purpose of these proceedings."

Court documents said the gruesome murders took place between 1993 and 2010, but authorities didn't get their big break in the case until several years later.

NBC News reported that Heuermann was arrested in 2023 "based on a trove of evidence, including DNA traces from a discarded pizza crust found in a midtown Manhattan garbage can."

PBS reported that investigators gathered cellphone and tracking data showing Heuermann arranged meetings with some victims shortly before their disappearances. After Heuermann's arrest, PBS said prosecutors recovered a "blueprint" for the killings from his computer files.

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Why leftism as a mental illness is a ‘comforting fiction’



As the divide between the right and the left continues to deepen, BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre explains that Americans are writing off what they don’t understand about each other as a “form of mental illness.”

“This is understandable when it comes to horrific crime. Someone like a serial killer is so violent and twisted that it's hard for us to comprehend their actions, and there is certainly a fair amount of mental illness that plays a factor,” MacIntyre says. “But today people often use this explanation when it comes to political disagreements.”

“Abortion, hatred for Christians and white people, the mutilation of children to turn boys into girls — these beliefs are so horrible that they can only possibly be explained by a malfunctioning brain,” he continues. “Of course, that's not the only explanation.”


“The other option is that some people have a very different set of values that drive them to pursue goals that we view as evil. The average American would like to avoid this truth, because it comes with an unnerving conclusion: Your political enemies aren't crazy; they are sane people who hate you and want to hurt you,” he adds.

MacIntyre explains that believing that a radical leftist who wants to mutilate children is mentally ill “is far easier than addressing the alternative.”

“The idea that half of America is crazy because they don’t share your political views is obviously absurd," he says. "The truth is much darker. We’re at least two societies, with mutually exclusive understandings of morality and purpose, trapped in one country.”

“The theoretical neutrality of the liberal system allowed this drift to occur under the surface, but the differences have become too extreme to ignore. Both sides have their own internally consistent understanding of the world, but they’re entirely incompatible with each other,” he explains.

“One side is going to win and one side is going to lose, and the winning side is going to impose its way of life on the other. There is no way to avoid this reality,” he continues. “And obscuring the truth with comforting fictions about mental illness only ensures that you’ll be on the side that loses.”

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Bryan Kohberger tried to use ‘autism’ to avoid death penalty



Former criminology student Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to four murders in Idaho, where he fatally stabbed Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin in an off-campus home on Nov. 13, 2022.

According to newly released documents, the students were stabbed an ungodly amount of times — with one being stabbed over 50 times.

And Kohberger appeared to be proud of the weapon he used when he matched with a woman on the dating app Tinder in the fall of 2022. At one point in their conversation, the now-convicted murderer asked what the woman thought would be the worst way to die — to which she responded by knife.


Kohberger then asked something to the effect of “like a KA-BAR?” — which is the knife and sheath he had purchased on Amazon before the murders. While the sheath was found at the crime scene, the knife was never recovered.

BlazeTV hosts Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela are understandably disturbed by the crime.

“Might just be a Ted Bundy,” Angela tells the panel.

“An old-fashioned murder,” ¼ Black Garrett agrees, adding, “like just a spur-of-the-moment psychopath murder.”

In order to avoid the death penalty, Angela explains that Kohberger first “had his lawyers try to advocate for him to take the death penalty off the table because he had autism.”

“And they were like, ‘No,’” she adds.

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Is a serial killer prowling around Austin, Texas?



Since 2022, 38 bodies have been found in or near Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The most recent was recovered just earlier this month. On June 3, a teenage male kayaker was found two days after he swam into a deep part of the lake without a life jacket and disappeared under the water.

Many of the deaths in and around Lady Bird Lake have been attributed to accidental drownings. Other deaths have been ruled suicides and drug overdoses; only one death has been declared a homicide.

However, several cases remain unknown. Another disturbing fact is that 30 of the 38 bodies were males, 60% of which were between 30 and 49 years of age, leading many locals to suspect a serial killer, given serial killers usually target victims with specific characteristics — especially age and gender.

The Austin Police Department has insisted that no evidence supports the existence of a serial killer, but locals are not convinced. Several petitions for police to investigate drownings as potential homicides have been filed. Many believe that the proximity of Rainey Street, a nightlife hub with numerous bars and clubs, has led to men being drugged and lured to Lady Bird Lake where they were intentionally drowned.

While the city has implemented safety upgrades, including increased patrols, fencing, lighting, and cameras around the lake, APD has maintained that no serial killer is on the loose.

Dave Landau, BlazeTV host of the comedy series “Normal World,” sides with the locals.

He reads from a recent Buzzfeed article, detailing how in 2022, “A cluster of six bodies were found” — all males with “similar features.” The following year, “Five more bodies were found, again, all men,” who had apparently “gone missing after having a night out on the nearby Rainey Street.”

“So it looks like we have the Lady Bird Killer on our hands, ladies and gentlemen,” he says.

As for APD’s denial that there’s a serial killer on the loose, Dave thinks there’s a chance law enforcement “may not tell the public what they're looking at” to avoid hysteria.

To hear more about the scandal that’s got the people of Austin in an uproar, watch the episode above.

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Why our obsession with true crime isn’t as dark as you think



Social media has a way of humorously exposing humanity’s peculiarities. Using memes, reels, and trending audio, we love to make fun of ourselves.

One trend that’s been going strong for a while now exposes our strange obsession with true crime documentaries, books, and podcasts. There’s no telling how many thousands of Instagram reels and TikToks out there poke fun at normal people pounding popcorn while bingeing a series on Ted Bundy, for example.

Initially, it’s kind of funny. But a deeper consideration reveals a dark question: Why are we so drawn to serial killer stories? What is it about brutality, bloodthirst, and murder that attracts us?

This is one of many subjects author and Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan touches on in his new book, “The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness.”

On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Klaven and Allie Beth Stuckey unpacked this grim query.

While you might think that the duo arrive at an equally grim conclusion, they don’t. Peeling back the layers of this obsession with true crime leads to a paradoxically optimistic verdict: We are captivated by the collision of darkness and the moral order.

In an age when reading, especially the classics, is a dying practice, true crime fills the gap that dark literature used to fill.

Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” or even the biblical account of Cain’s treachery against his brother Abel are all tales that hinge on murder and betrayal. These stories, Klaven says, explore darkness “within that moral order.” Our instinctive recoiling at the murder of an innocent, for example, shatters the atheistic idea of moral relativism, which can actually lead us to God — the source of truth.

Ultimately, “that's what people are looking for in crime,” he tells Allie. “Murder is the place where everybody says, ‘Yes, that is evil'" because there is something in us that understands “the sanctity of the human person.”

But is true crime a good substitute for dark literature?

Not exactly, says Klaven.

“I think that people would be better off if they were reading Dostoevsky more and maybe being titillated by true crimes a little less,” because “it’s when the mind and heart and soul of the artist engage with murder that we see it become something beautiful in this larger context, which is what I think God is doing with the world itself,” he says.

Allie then brings up another good point: Unlike thought-provoking literature that invites us to explore the human condition, true crime often leads to “fear and paranoia.”

“There is some sort of balance between looking at darkness, recognizing it for the objective evil that it is, [contrasting] it to God's goodness, and constantly dwelling on the darkness,” she says, citing Philippians 4:8, which encourages readers to focus their thoughts on what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and praiseworthy.

While not denying the truth of the verse, Klavan says that Philippians 4:8 is not synonymous with the “You Can Fly!” song from Peter Pan, which features the lyric “Now, think of the happiest things / It's the same as having wings.”

“You have to remember that Peter Pan never grows up, and if your faith never becomes the faith of a grown-up person, it's not going to stand up very well when you come into contact with the things that really do happen in this world — not just the evil, but also the suffering, the cruelty,” he says. “We believe in a God who was crucified … that's a very, very tragic truth, and yet the very deepest thing that God does for us is contained within that crucifixion.”

“One of the first things it says in Philippians is meditate and dwell on what is true, and what is true is all the beauty we experience, all the good that we experience, all the God that we experience takes place in this very dark world,” he continues.

The best Christian art, he argues, pointing to Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Mozart, and Bach, dealt with the kind of “sorrow and darkness and pain and suffering that Christianity was meant to address.”

However, even non-Christians unknowingly do this. “Many writers who have no faith have produced beautiful works that speak of God because I think any time you tell the truth, you're going to speak of God,” says Klaven. “The arts convey [and] transform this evil and this darkness into a source of light, and I think that that is a beautiful thing.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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Black ex-Marine allegedly threatened to gun down white people like a 'serial killer': 'NEVER understand my struggles'



A black former Marine remains in a New Jersey jail on a federal charge after he repeatedly threatened to kill white people en masse, the Department of Justice says.

'This is why people like me shoot people.'

From December 2022 until at least May 2023, 23-year-old Joshua Cobb of Trenton, New Jersey, repeatedly sent text messages and posted social media messages that threatened to harm white people, a DOJ press release indicated. The press release shared several messages reportedly written by Cobb that reveal a strong hatred for humanity in general and white people in particular.

The following are just some of the messages attributed to Cobb:

  • "I want to cause mayhem on the white community. The reason I specifically want to target white people is because as a black male, they will NEVER understand my struggles. Same way I will never understand their struggles, but I don’t care to. I want to erase them. All of them really, but in this case as many as I possibly can. As of today I have officially began planning my attack. ... I have not chosen a exact date but I am going to be sure it is close to an important holiday to their race."
  • "Tbh I hope I do progress into a serial killer because I f***ing hate life man. ... But one day everyone will suffer. I promise I will make everyone feel my f***ing pain. My deep, sincere, raw, & sharp pain."
  • "It’s all a f***ing game and you all are going to die. I currently lack the means necessary to kill as many as I intend to but one day I will have the available resources (finance) to purchase the appropriate weaponry for my killing(s)."
  • "I’m just leaving evidence for whoever investigates my case."

Some of those messages were allegedly sent via text. Others were allegedly shared on social media under the username 1dayUsuffer. No such account currently exists on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or X.

In speaking with law enforcement, Cobb allegedly admitted to writing at least some of the threatening messages and to planning a mass attack. He reportedly identified a Jersey Strong gym and an Aldi grocery store in Robbinsville, New Jersey, as two possible locations.

Cobb also reportedly expressed admiration for some white serial killers and indicated he felt a connection with them. He allegedly told investigators he respected the racist white shooter who gunned down black people in a Buffalo grocery store for his "element of surprise and style." He likewise claimed to have felt the white Parkland shooter's "pain."

When investigators told Cobb they would seize his digital devices, Cobb allegedly responded, "These are the things that make someone want to do the things we talked about." Cobb also allegedly told another Marine, "This is why people like me shoot people."

Cobb joined the Marines sometime in 2023 and completed basic training last June. He was stationed in California until he was discharged last week. He is believed to have made most, if not all, of the threatening messages from his home in New Jersey.

Cobb was arrested last Friday and charged with one count of transmitting a threat in interstate and foreign commerce, a federal offense that carries a sentence of up to five years in prison and $250,000. He remains in custody at the Monmouth County jail without bond. He has another hearing scheduled for Friday.

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Los Angeles authorities believe there is a serial killer on the loose



Los Angeles authorities believe there is a serial killer on the loose – who is responsible for the murders of three homeless people.

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an extensive search for a suspected serial killer who shot three homeless people in three separate attacks across the city. Police said all of the murders happened in the early morning hours over the course of a few days in November.

The first murder occurred at around 3:00 a.m. on Nov. 26 in an alley located in the southeast area of Los Angeles. Police identified the victim as Jose Vamos, a 37-year-old male.

The second murder occurred in Central Division around 5:00 a.m. on Nov. 27. The victim was identified as 62-year-old Mark Digs.

The third occurred around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 29. The victim was said to be a 52-year-old male.

LAPD Chief Michel Moore said, "Each one was shot and killed as they slept" or were getting ready to go to sleep.

The LAPD will dispatch more patrols in areas where homeless people congregate.

The LAPD has created a task force to track down the serial killer.

Moore said, "We're bringing Homicide investigators from throughout the city. We're bringing additional investigators from specialized posts and we have placed our forensic science division on ready so that any forensic evidence that is gathered is also quickly processed and analyzed in an effort to identify the person we believe responsible for these three homicides."

Moore noted that the LAPD had contacted law enforcement officials in nearby cities to see if there were similar murders.

"We have no unsolved homicides outside the city of Los Angeles," Moore said. "Yet our work continues in identifying whether there are any other shooting victims of persons who are experiencing homelessness, which are unsolved and may have any similarities to these homicides."

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, said, "This is a killer preying on the unhoused."

"Our message to the unhoused community is clear — do not sleep alone tonight," Bass advised. "Seek shelter, seek services, stay together, seek support and we need your help to get the word out."

The LAPD released two photos – one of the suspect and another of a dark-colored sedan car believed to be involved in the murders.

Police urge anyone with information on these cases to contact the tipline at (213) 486-6890.

The Los Angeles Times reported, "The killings raised new alarms in Los Angeles’ homeless community, which a count completed earlier this year pegged at more than 46,000 people. The city has been struggling to provide housing to this population, which the count found increased 10% over the last year."

The outlet noted that approximately 70% of the city's homeless population is unsheltered.

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'Hard to comprehend': Pennsylvania nurse who confessed to killing off men in care facilities now linked to 17 deaths



A Pennsylvania nurse who admitted in May to killing patients with fatal doses of insulin has now been linked to 17 care facility deaths. Heather Pressdee, 41, of Natrona Heights was slapped Thursday with dozens of new charges pertaining to a series of slayings going back to at least 2020. Her alleged victims ranged in age from 43 to 104.

Pressdee has worked at over 11 rehabilitation facilities since 2018. It appears she changed locations at least once in response to disciplinary measures over her alleged abuse of staff and patients.

Pressdee told investigators on May 24 that she gave victims lethal doses of insulin, hoping that "they would slip into a coma and just pass away," reported CBS News.

She was initially charged in connection with the murder of two men, ages 55 and 83, at Quality Life Services in Chicora, and the attempted murder of a third man, age 73.

Pressdee is now suspected to have abused 22 victims and has admitted to trying to kill 19 patients.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced Thursday that she filed charges against Pressdee regarding the mistreatment of an additional 19 patients across five care facilities.

The victims had been at Concordia at Rebecca Residence; Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation; Quality Life Services Chicora; Premier Armstrong Rehabilitation and Nursing Center; and Sunnyview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center — all locations where Pressdee served as a registered nurse.

Investigators indicated Pressdee would administer fatal doses of insulin during overnight shifts when there were few staff on hand and "often took steps to ensure her victims would expire prior to shift change so that they wouldn't be sent to the hospital where her scheme could be discovered through medical testing." If it looked as though her victims might pull through, Pressdee would allegedly take additional measures to ensure they died.

For instance, the criminal complaint noted that when insulin failed to kill one victim whom Pressdee later told investigators "needed to die," she administered a syringe full of air into the victim's catheter to create a lethal air embolism.

The complaint also details various messages the suspect sent to her mother, complaining about patients and her desire to kill various people.

Pressdee reportedly wrote regarding one patient on June 26, 2022, "If you get like this you will get pillow therapy."

Concerning another male patient, she allegedly wrote on Sept. 6, 2022, "I drugged him already and I don't know how he is awake."

On Dec. 7, 2022, Pressdee messaged her mother regarding a female resident who was sleeping, stating, "She could be dead, she hasn't made a noise since 9 and I'm not checking on her," adding later, "Well she's alive and she may die now," according to the complaint.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that while a 104-year-old victim had reportedly been mobile and doing well, Pressdee allegedly expressed disgust, telling co-workers, "When is she going to die already?"

Extra to her previous charges, Pressdee now faces two counts of first-degree murder, 17 counts of attempted murder, and 19 counts of neglect of a care-dependent person. Despite her various admissions, prosecutors appear to have stuck with attempted murder charges in various cases where the victims died, as causes of death could not be determined.

Still, Pressdee could face the death penalty, which one of her defense attorneys, James DePasquale, told the Associated Press that he is working to avoid. Capital punishment is legal in the state, although Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) has so far maintained former Gov. Tom Wolf's moratorium on executions.

"We have been in communication with our client and the substantial amount of charges that were brought were not a surprise to anyone involved," said Pressdee's other attorney, Phil DiLucente.

Pressdee is being held at the Butler County Prison without bail.

"The allegations against Ms. Pressdee are disturbing. It is hard to comprehend how a nurse, trusted to care for her patients, could choose to deliberately and systematically harm them," said Henry. "The damage done to the victims and their loved ones cannot be overstated. Every person in a medical or care facility should feel safe and cared for, and my office will work tirelessly to hold the defendant accountable for her crimes and protect care-dependent Pennsylvanians from future harm."

The New York Times reported that the family of 68-year-old Marianne Bower, one of the victims, initially believed that she died of respiratory failure in September 2021. However, they recently learned from investigators that Pressdee admitted to killing Bower with insulin. Bower, like many of Pressdee's victims, was not a diabetic and had no need for insulin.

Rob Peirce, a lawyer representing Bower's estate in a wrongful death suit against the Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, said, "This is one of the worst cases we have seen with someone in the health care system going from facility to facility and, unfortunately, admitting to killing multiple people."

The Times indicated the facility did not return its requests for comment.

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Ohio woman allegedly lured men with sex, then fatally drugged, robbed them. Police searching for more 'serial killing' victims.



An Ohio woman is accused of carrying out the "serial killings" of at least four men in Columbus. The woman allegedly lured the men to hotels with the promise of sex. However, the woman instead would fatally drug the men before stealing their belongings, according to the attorney general.

Rebecca Auborn was charged on Sept. 11 with aggravated robbery, felonious assault, murder, corruption of another with drugs, trafficking in drugs, and the illegal manufacture of drugs.

On Wednesday, authorities announced new charges for Auborn. The 33-year-old from Columbus is now facing four counts of murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter, five counts of aggravated robbery, five counts of felonious assault, five counts of corrupting another with drugs, one count of tampering with evidence, and four counts of trafficking in drugs — all felonies.

Investigators suspect Auborn to be involved with the overdose of four men and one who survived the encounter with the woman. The Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force received information that a woman was meeting men in northeast Columbus and then dosing the "johns" with drugs in order to steal their belongings.

Police believe Auborn lured a man to a hotel room with the promise of sex on Dec. 13, 2022. The man overdosed but survived.

Between January 2023 and June 2023, police said there were four men who suffered a fatal overdose of drugs while suspected of being with Auborn for sexual relations.

The Columbus Dispatch reported, "Court records from another case said Auborn admitted to detectives that she had mixed fentanyl in a man's crack pipe after meeting him for sex. In that case, Auborn told detectives she knew the man was overdosing, but took his vehicle and debit card, according to court records."

Investigators stressed that they believe there are more victims. Police are reinvestigating overdose deaths that happened near the other crime scenes from around the same timeline as the other deaths.

A statement from state Attorney General Dave Yost described the death as "serial killings."

"Don’t buy sex in Ohio – it ruins lives and could cost you yours," Yost said.

Auborn has been detained in the Franklin County jail. She is expected to appear in Franklin County Common Pleas Court for an arraignment on Friday.

Police are urging anyone with information related to the deadly overdose cases to contact the Columbus Division of Police homicide tip line at 614-645-2228.

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