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Prosecutors in the Dauphin County trial of Travis Collins called a mix of forensic, investigative and eyewitness witnesses who tied Collins to the Harrisburg Hilton killing of Ashley Sarazen through p...
The most recent Dauphin County murder trial of Travis Collins saw the defense call no witnesses during its case-in-chief, instead focusing on cross‑examination of prosecution witnesses and arguing lac...
Prosecutors in the Dauphin County trial of Travis Collins called a mix of crime‑scene and police witnesses who tied Collins to the Aug. 4, 2023, death of Ashley Sarazen, using photographs, physical ev...
The prosecution in the Dauphin County trial of Travis Collins called a range of witnesses that included prosecutors themselves presenting narrative openings, Harrisburg police investigators who descri...
At sentencing in the killing of Ashley Sarazen, Dauphin County Judge William Tully described the defendant’s conduct as “demonic” and said Sarazen’s injuries were among the worst he had seen in his 40...
The documents and links supplied for review do not include a transcript, reporter’s account, or victim impact statements from any Dauphin County courtroom for a 2025 sentencing of a defendant named Tr...
No publicly available Dauphin County docket entry for a "Travis Collins" (with or without a case number) after August 2025 is present in the reporting provided to this review; the sources supplied ins...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that Travis Collins—who was publicly tried in 2025 in Dauphin County for the alleged homicide at the Harrisburg Hilton—has filed a formal appeal or a post...
Travis J. Collins was convicted at trial of first-degree murder in the August 2023 killing of Ashley Sarazen and, at a subsequent sentencing hearing, was given a life sentence — described by reporting...
Travis Collins, a Berks County man, is on trial in Dauphin County for the August 2023 beating and death of Ashley Sarazen at the Harrisburg Hilton, with prosecutors pursuing first‑degree murder as wel...
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...
Prosecutors relied on a combination of forensic pathology, DNA and injury evidence, crime-scene photography, and Collins’ own actions at and after the scene to link Travis Collins to sexual-assault al...
The reporting provided does not include the Collins judgment itself, so the specific, verbatim sentencing order and parole-eligibility clause from Collins cannot be quoted here; instead, this analysis...
Travis Collins was convicted in Dauphin County in the August 2023 beating and strangling death of Ashley Sarazen, and a judge imposed a life prison sentence so that, as one report put it, he “will hav...
Travis Collins has been charged in Dauphin County with murder for the August 2023 beating and strangulation death of Ashley Sarazen, and prosecutors later added sexual-offense charges including forcib...
Ashley A. Sarazen, a 38-year-old Pittsburgh-area woman known for 13 years of work with at‑risk youth, died Aug. 4, 2023; her death in a Harrisburg Hilton hotel is the subject of a homicide investigati...