Were any rape or sexual-assault convictions returned against Travis Collins in the Dauphin County trial beyond the murder verdict?
Executive summary
The public record provided shows the Dauphin County case against Travis Collins was being tried in August 2025 with prosecutors pursuing first-degree murder and presenting sexual-assault evidence, but the sources do not report that a jury had returned rape or other sexual-assault convictions beyond the murder charge; reporting available during jury selection and early testimony notes allegations and forensic findings but not a completed verdict on sexual-offense counts [1] [2] [3].
1. The narrow question and what the reporting actually covers
The user’s inquiry asks specifically whether any rape or sexual-assault convictions were returned against Travis Collins in the Dauphin County trial in addition to a murder verdict; the contemporaneous local reporting documents that Collins was on trial in late August 2025 and that prosecutors were seeking a first‑degree murder conviction, but none of the provided articles state that jurors rendered guilty verdicts on rape or sexual‑assault counts — the coverage available describes allegations and evidence presented in court, not post‑trial convictions on those counts [1] [2] [3].
2. What prosecutors presented during trial about alleged sexual assault
During testimony described in press coverage, Dauphin County prosecutors introduced forensic evidence they said tied Collins to sexual contact with the victim — Pennsylvania State Police DNA testimony reported Collins’ DNA under the victim’s fingernails, in her rectum, and on a bite mark on her buttocks — and prosecutors displayed other items they said linked Collins to sexual conduct in the hotel room, including a sex‑themed coin they believe belonged to him [1].
3. Pretrial posture and jury selection: charges and framing
Local outlets covering the case reported that Collins faced murder and rape allegations in connection with the August 2023 death at the Hilton Harrisburg and that jury selection was underway in late August 2025; police accounts cited in those pieces say officers found Collins at the scene with blood on his hands and that investigators allege he beat and strangled the victim — but those news items focus on charges and evidence rather than announcing any jury findings on sexual‑assault counts [2] [3].
4. Defense stance reported in the record
Reporting also noted aspects of Collins’ defense strategy: earlier court filings and articles say Collins contested the circumstances of the encounter in court while not disputing that the victim died, a distinction the defense used in pretrial hearings and testimony [4] [5]. The materials provided do not include a defense concession or plea on rape counts that would equate to a conviction, nor do they include a published jury verdict document on sexual-assault charges.
5. Why some public records about “Collins” can be misleading
A cautionary note arises from the name: the reporting corpus contains multiple legal cases involving individuals named Travis or other Collins in different jurisdictions and years, including entirely separate criminal convictions in other states; conflating those unrelated cases would be an error — the Dauphin County reporting cited here is specific to the August 2023 Harrisburg death and the 2025 trial, and other Collins cases in the search results are distinct and not evidence about the Dauphin County trial’s outcomes [6] [7].
6. Conclusion and limits of the available evidence
Based on the provided sources, there is detailed reporting of alleged sexual‑assault evidence presented at trial (DNA, bite mark, coin) and clear reporting that Collins was tried for murder and related allegations, but there is no source here reporting that jurors returned convictions for rape or other sexual‑assault offenses beyond any murder verdict; absent a news item or court record in the supplied material explicitly documenting guilty findings on sexual‑assault counts, the record supplied does not support claiming such convictions occurred [1] [2] [3].