By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-10-06 21:47:00 | Updated at 2026-10-06 22:16:34
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Families of the three men murdered by New York City’s notorious hooker from hell slammed her as a heartless brute Tuesday — after the diabolical fiend was slapped with a sentence that will land her behind bars for decades.
Seven family members of the victims — Mario Paullan, Miguel Navez and Abrihan Fernandez — chose to remember their lost loved ones as men of good character in Manhattan Supreme Court, as they railed against Tabitha Bundrick, 39, for heinously duping her victims into ingesting fentanyl to rob them.
The diabolical prostitute was hit with 27-years-to-life in prison after copping to the murders last month.
“She took part of my heart,” Fernandez’s mom, Brigida Rodriguez, said while she pointed at Bundrick, as she fought through tears during an emotional victim impact statement.
The grieving mother, who remembered her son as a college graduate, said he had come to the United States for a “better future” — but that ended when Bundrick drugged him with fentanyl on Feb. 25, 2024, in her third killing inside a Washington Heights apartment.
“Half of my heart is missing because she doesn’t have one,” raged Brigida Rodriguez, who wore Fernandez’s college ring that she claimed couldn’t be pried off her son’s hand by the crazed hooker.
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said Bundrick carried out a “deliberate and repetitive” scheme by pumping her victims with fentanyl until they passed out — and then robbed their phones, money, watches, clothes and sneakers during an April 2023 to February 2024 spree.
“Robberies were the motive, fentanyl was the means and murder was the result,” Yoran said.
Bundrick claimed her first victim, Paullan, when she convinced the 42-year-old him and a pal to come back up to an apartment where they planned to trade cash for sex, prosecutors have said.
She then offered the men what she said was cocaine and repeatedly encouraged both to “do it again” over and over, pressuring Paullan three times to keep taking the drugs, despite telling her he had never done drugs before, Yoran said.
Paullan died at the scene, and his friend woke up in an empty apartment next to his pal’s body, prosecutors said.
“My father was a happy man. He liked to joke and was very hard working, a man who loved his children who is no longer here,” Paullan’s daughter, Aylin, remembered during a speech in court.
Five months after Paullan’s death, Bundrick then met up with Navez, 39, went back to his apartment and laced cocaine with fentanyl.
His brother found his body — with his pants down around his knees — two days after the encounter, and many personal items missing from his apartment, prosecutors have said.
In February 2024, Bundrick pulled off the act one final time when she drugged Fernandez, 34, inside his Manhattan apartment — where she was caught on surveillance footage hauling out several “giant laundry bags” with sneakers, according to prosecutors.
She was arrested that March and has also been charged federally — where she pleaded guilty to narcotics distribution and was sentenced to 13 years behind bars. She pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in the second degree and one count of assault in the second degree on Sept. 8.
Bundrick, who wore a big wooden cross on her neck, apologized to the families and blamed her drug addiction for their deaths — telling the court Tuesday that it caused her to “make bad choices and bad decisions just to get high.”
Her new state sentence will run concurrently with the federal sentence, according to Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Kathryn Paak.
“Tabitha Bundrick’s absolutely callous conduct has left three devastated families,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
“Today in court, we heard powerful statements from the loved ones of the defendants victims, who are still mourning in anguish. I hope this prison sentence will allow for some measure of healing.”
