Manhattan Woman Pleads Guilty to Drugging, Robbing and Killing Three Men She Met on the Street

Manhattan Woman Pleads Guilty to Drugging, Robbing and Killing Three Men She Met on the Street

Manhattan woman pleads guilty to drugging, robbing and killing three men

Tabitha Bundrick pleaded guilty this week to drugging and killing three men she encountered on the street, Manhattan prosecutors said. Between 2023 and 2024, Bundrick lured victims to vacant apartments or their own homes, sometimes with promises of sex, before drugging and robbing them and leaving them to die, according to the New York Times. The case is one of several recent prosecutions involving women accused of using drugs to incapacitate and rob men before abandoning them without medical help.

How Tabitha Bundrick targeted victims in 2023 and 2024

Street encounters, promises of sex, vacant apartments

Bundrick approached men on the street, according to prosecutors, often offering sex as a way to get them alone. She then directed them to vacant apartments or brought them back to their own homes, where she could control the environment and leave without drawing attention. The New York Times reported that this pattern repeated across the three killings prosecutors tied to her during the guilty plea.

Drugging, robbery and abandonment as the common method

Once alone with a victim, Bundrick drugged him, according to prosecutors, then robbed him. In each of the three cases, she left the man behind rather than seeking help, and the men died. Manhattan prosecutors described the deaths as the result of this drugging-and-abandonment method, repeated over roughly a year.

The guilty plea and what prosecutors said in court

Bundrick entered her guilty plea in a Manhattan courtroom, admitting to drugging, robbing and killing the three men, according to the New York Times. The plea resolves murder charges she faced after her arraignment, which followed the string of deaths tied to the same method of luring, drugging and abandoning victims.

Manhattan district attorney’s office statement on the case

Manhattan prosecutors laid out the pattern (street encounters, promised sex and vacant apartments) as the backdrop for the drugging and robbery scheme that led to all three deaths. Their account, as reported by the New York Times, forms the basis of the charges Bundrick pleaded guilty to.

Legal consequences: charges, plea deal and expected sentencing

Bundrick’s guilty plea addresses the murder charges brought against her following her arraignment in Manhattan. Specific sentencing terms had not been detailed in initial reporting on the plea. The case follows a familiar path in recent prosecutions of drugging-robbery schemes: arraignment on homicide-related charges, followed by a negotiated plea rather than a trial.

Part of a broader pattern: similar drugging-robbery cases nationwide

Bundrick’s case is not isolated. Investigators and prosecutors in multiple cities have pursued similar cases in recent years, each involving a woman accused of drugging men she met through casual encounters or dating apps, robbing them, and in some instances causing their deaths.

Rebecca Auborn’s New York case and its parallels

Rebecca Auborn, indicted in October 2023, faced charges tied to the fatal drug overdoses of four men and the attempted overdose of a fifth. Auborn later pleaded guilty to four counts, according to prior reporting. Her case mirrors Bundrick’s in method: drugging men to rob them, with fatal outcomes in multiple instances rather than a single isolated death.

Aurora Phelps and the Las Vegas-to-Mexico dating app scheme

Aurora Phelps, 43, used dating apps to befriend older men before drugging, robbing and, in at least one case, killing them, according to federal authorities. She was originally charged with homicide in the death of 67-year-old Robert Erbach. A judge in Guadalajara, Mexico, later convicted her, according to reporting on the case. Phelps was also charged separately with operating an identity theft lab, after police in Las Vegas said she allegedly drugged and fleeced older men she met on dating apps. Sue Fahami, acting U.S. attorney, addressed the case in a February 2025 statement, according to the Associated Press. A federal bulletin issued that same month detailed the scope of the scheme, which spanned from Nevada into Mexico.

Why these cases are hard to detect and prosecute

Cases like Bundrick’s, Auborn’s and Phelps’s share features that make them difficult to investigate. Victims often meet suspects casually, through street encounters or dating apps, leaving little formal record of the interaction beforehand. The drugging itself can obscure cause of death, particularly when victims are later found alone and toxicology isn’t immediately linked to a suspect. And because perpetrators target multiple victims over months or years before being caught, as seen in both the Auborn and Phelps cases, individual deaths can initially be treated as isolated overdoses rather than connected crimes.

What happens next in the Bundrick case

With her guilty plea entered, Bundrick now awaits sentencing in Manhattan on the murder charges tied to the three deaths. Prosecutors have not detailed the specific terms of her sentence in initial reporting. Her case adds to a growing list of prosecutions, alongside Auborn’s in New York and Phelps’s in Nevada and Mexico, involving drugging-robbery schemes that target men met through casual or online encounters.