{"id":1032,"date":"2025-10-14T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/1032\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:36:16","slug":"woman-charged-in-killing-three-men-with-fentanyl-in-manhattan-seeks-penpal-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/1032\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged in killing three men with fentanyl in Manhattan seeks penpal from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sex worker accused of administering fatal doses of fentanyl to three men in Manhattan<\/a> during a 10-month robbery spree has an online profile<\/a> seeking correspondence with a penpal willing to accept the alleged killer \u2014 despite her disturbing crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super funny, loving, caring, and outgoing. Hoping to get to know you as you get to know me. Talk to you soon,\u201d reads the penacon.com profile for Tabitha Bundrick, 36, who was charged in Manhattan Criminal Court<\/a> with murder, robbery, burglary and assault for the crime spree, in which she administered fentanyl-laced drugs to knock out four men \u2014 three of whom died.<\/p>\n

Bundrick, who is already serving 13 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to two counts of narcotics distribution in connection with the men\u2019s deaths as part of a plea agreement in February, enjoys scary movies, working out, academics and is \u201choping to go home soon,\u201d according to her penacon.com profile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am looking for someone to get to know me, accept me for who I am, and do the same for them in return,\u201d Bundrick\u2019s profile reads.<\/p>\n

According to prosecutors, Bundrick\u2019s less sunny background includes luring three victims to their deaths with offers of sex for cash, before poisoning them with fentanyl-laced drugs, stealing their belongings and leaving them for dead.<\/p>\n

Bundrick first appeared on the Manhattan DA\u2019s radar in March 2024 following her arrest on burglary and grand larceny charges, prompting the investigation that led to the recent triple homicide charges. She remained in federal custody on related offenses while the DA\u2019s investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Bundrick first struck under the guise of a sidewalk soap vendor outside a Washington Heights laundromat when she offered to have sex with two men, 42-year-old Mario Paullan and his former brother-in-law, in exchange for cash on April 30, 2023.<\/p>\n

\"MarioMario Paullan<\/p>\n

Bundrick led the two men to a vacant apartment she\u2019d broken into on W. 159th St near Amsterdam Ave., where she doled out a drug she told the men was \u201cperico,\u201d slang for cocaine, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

The next morning, Paullan\u2019s friend awoke to find the victim dead beside him, with his belongings, including his wallet and cellphone, stolen, said prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Investigators recovered footage on Paullan\u2019s phones recorded in the hours leading up to his death, in which the victims can be heard \u201csnorting and sniffing\u201d as Bundrick urges them to consume more of the fentanyl-laced drug, prosecutors said. At one point, Paullan can be heard refusing Bundrick\u2019s offer of drugs, only to then inhale a third and final line of the purported cocaine as she continued to pressure him, said prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Bundrick is then heard in the video telling Paullan to follow her to bed, while instructing his former brother-in-law to wait, saying she could \u201conly handle one of them,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

An autopsy found that Paullan died due to acute fentanyl and alcohol intoxication, and that no trace of cocaine was found in his system, said prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Paullan had immigrated to the United States from Ecuador and worked in construction to support his family, including a wife and three children, still living in his home country, a friend told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a good person. He was working for his family. He told me about his family, he wanted to bring the family here,\u201d said Fernando Guano. \u201cHe was here a couple months, he worked a lot to help his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The immigrant had only been in the country for five months before his run in with Bundrick, Guano said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was new to this country. He didn\u2019t understand the danger,\u201d Guano said.<\/p>\n

Paullan\u2019s son described the pain of losing his father in a letter submitted to federal court prior to Bundrick\u2019s sentencing on federal charges in August.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad\u2019s death has been the hardest blow life has given me,\u201d Paullan\u2019s son, who is not named in the letter, wrote. \u201cI felt like my world collapsed. He told me I had to be the man of the house, to take care of my mother and sister. Now, even though I feel broken inside, I dry my tears so I can hold them and tell them everything will be okay.\u201d Paullan\u2019s son wrote to the court.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s wife, who was also not named, said Paullan\u2019s killing had left her \u201cto be both a mother and father, working tirelessly from Sunday to Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[It] is very hard for me to hold myself together emotionally and financially. It hurts not being able to be there for my children the way I wish I could,\u201d she wrote, adding she was at a loss to explain his passing to their 4-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n

Bundrick\u2019s second victim would die on Sept. 27 of that year, when, after meeting 39-year-old Miguel Navez, she accompanied the man to his W. 158th St. apartment near Amsterdam Ave. where they planned to have sex prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\"MiguelMiguel Navez, 39, died on Sept. 27, 2023. (GoFundMe)<\/p>\n

There, according to prosecutors, Bundrick incapacitated the victim with fentanyl, before stealing belongings, including his cellphone and tablet, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Later that day, Bundrick\u2019s roommate used Navez\u2019s cellphone to call 911 after the defendant suffered an asthma attack, and Bundrick herself used the phone to make several calls the day after that, including to her mother and her drug dealer, said prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Navez\u2019s brother found the victim dead, his pants at his knees and a drug wrapper lying on the bed next to his body, on Sept. 30, prosecutors said. Pathologists ruled his death the result of acute fentanyl and alcohol intoxication, court documents show.<\/p>\n

Neighbors of both Paullan and Navez told The News that the victims\u2019 grieving families held memorials at the buildings where they died.<\/p>\n

Bundrick\u2019s most recent alleged murder occurred on Feb. 25, 2024, when she stalked 34-year-old Abrihan Fernandez to his apartment building on W. 144th St. near Convent Ave., where the pair chatted before heading inside together, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\"Abrihan<\/p>\n

Obtained by Daily News<\/p>\n

Abrihan Fernandez died on Feb. 25, 2024. (Obtained by Daily News)<\/p>\n

After incapacitating Fernandez with fentanyl, Bundrick was spotted exiting and entering the victim\u2019s apartment multiple times, rigging the building\u2019s door for ease of access as she hauled several large bags outside, before entering a cab that carried her to her apartment, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Bundrick also stole Rodriguez\u2019s credit cards, which her son was captured on video using the next day, said prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The superintendent of the building where Fernandez lived told the Daily News he found the victim \u201ccold and stiff\u201d inside his apartment after the man\u2019s cousin called requesting a wellness check.<\/p>\n

The super said the building recorded footage of a woman entering the building with Fernandez, before leaving with the victim\u2019s belongings and her face covered.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wiped him out, she took his clothing, his computers, sneakers, everything,\u201d the super said. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy, she\u2019s a serial killer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ManhattanManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks during a press conference related the indictment of Tabitha Bundrick for allegedly using fentanyl-laced drugs to rob four men, killing three of them, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025 in Manhattan, New York, New York. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News; Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

In a submission to federal court prior to her August sentencing in federal court, Bundrick\u2019s lawyer argued that she relied on drugs to \u201cget through the experience of prostituting her body\u201d and that she never intended to kill anyone when shared her drugs with the victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery night that Tabitha Bundrick laid down on her bare back, opened her legs, and let complete strangers sexually penetrate her body, the only thing that could get her through this terrifying outer body experience was the numbness that she achieved from being high on drugs,\u201d Kristoff Williams from the Federal Defenders said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It] was a life that she was pimped into as an impressionable teenager with a learning disability that, to this day, has capped her intellectual functioning at a third-grade level.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Roni Jacobson<\/p>\n

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