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The public record and press coverage show that Ashley Sarazen underwent a full forensic autopsy that documented extensive blunt and penetrating trauma and that a separate forensic sexual-assault exam ...
The defense in the Travis Collins murder trial did not call any witnesses and rested without presenting an affirmative alternative narrative, instead focusing in closing on flaws in the investigators’...
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 available reporting contains no record that Ashley Sarazen’s husband testified during the four-day trial of Travis Collins; contemporaneous coverage lists specific witnesses and explicitly notes t...
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...
Prosecutors at Travis Collins’ August 2025 murder trial relied heavily on forensic crime-scene documentation, a bloodstain-pattern expert and the victim’s autopsy to tie Collins to the beating and str...
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...
Ashley Sarazen’s family used the sentencing hearing for Travis Collins to read forceful victim-impact remarks that confronted Collins as “the monster” who killed her and to insist he spend the rest of...
Family members, friends and law enforcement recount a mixture of confrontational, denigrating and self-exculpatory statements made by Travis J. Collins after the Aug. 2023 killing of Ashley Sarazen: C...
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...
The publicly documented support offered to Ashley Sarazen’s family after her death was centered on funeral and memorial services — obituary notices, in-person funeral arrangements and multiple online ...
Publicly available directory data identifies a person named Shane Sarazen as a private individual in their 40s with multiple U.S. phone listings and at least one Gibsonia, Pennsylvania address, but th...
Prosecutors anchored their case tying Travis Collins to the Harrisburg Hilton guest room with a mix of biological forensics, surveillance video, crime-scene documentation and Collins’ own presence and...
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...
Family and friends of Ashley Sarazen delivered nine victim impact statements at the sentencing hearing following the trial of Travis Collins, using the courtroom to humanize Sarazen, condemn Collins a...
The publicly available reporting does not include the Harrisburg medical examiner’s full autopsy report, so definitive, line-item conclusions about the precise timing and age of every injury cannot be...
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...