How a church administrator tracked down the woman now accused of killing her father and 3 others
On a May afternoon two years ago, Christyn Akin-Crockett found herself in an unusual situation.
On a May afternoon two years ago, Christyn Akin-Crockett found herself in an unusual situation. Standing in an alley north of downtown Columbus, Ohio, the church administrator was dressed in black and staring at a run-down single-family home.
Akin-Crockett, 42, had heard that a woman in the area — identified to her only as “Becka” — was responsible for multiple killings, including her father’s.
Wayne Akin.Courtesy Christyn Akin-CrockettIn an interview, Akin-Crockett said she had previously tried to get local authorities to investigate Wayne Akin’s death as suspicious. When she’d gone to her father’s apartment after his body was found on April 17, 2023, she said she found women’s shorts and underwear on the floor, and his phone and wallet were missing. But when she went to Columbus police with her concerns, she said, an officer told her investigators had to wait for the results of toxicology testing to determine if Akin’s death was suspicious.
Frustrated, Akin-Crockett said she took matters into her own hands after someone reached out to her family via Facebook with information about his death and who may have been responsible for it. The tip prompted what Akin-Crockett described as a vigilante mission that she said brought her face to face with the woman authorities later identified as Rebecca Auborn, a sex worker and alleged serial killer charged in October 2023 with targeting at least four customers, including Akin, with fatal doses of fentanyl.
Prosecutors have accused Auborn, 34, of killing the men between January and June of that year. She was charged with trying to kill a fifth person in December 2022, an indictment shows.
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