'JFK ain't lying dead in that room': Man laughs off murder of 'businesswoman' he just met at bar, says 'she got the short end of that stick,' DA reports

A Pennsylvania antheral is connected trial for allegedly raping and killing a pistillate astatine a Hilton Hotel aft getting drunk each time and gathering her astatine a bar, telling constabulary she was his "lady of the night" and had attacked him archetypal — causing him to springiness her "a fewer combos," according to cops.

"I deliberation I broke her neck," said Travis Collins, 32, during a 911 telephone to the Harrisburg Bureau of Police aft allegedly murdering Ashley Sarazen, 38, connected Aug. 4, according to PennLive.

"I don't remember," Collins allegedly told the dispatcher. "She fell connected the furniture and started bleeding."

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Officers responded to the Harrisburg Hilton Hotel connected Second Street astatine 3:10 a.m. aft receiving the 911 telephone and recovered Sarazen dormant — with injuries that made her astir unrecognizable — wrong a edifice room, PennLive reports. Cops said Sarazen was successful municipality visiting from the Pittsburgh country and had met Collins astatine the Bourbon Street Saloon connected Second Street earlier successful the evening. The barroom is astir a artifact distant from the Hilton, arsenic good arsenic the Crowne Plaza hotel, wherever prosecutors accidental Collins was staying with a friend.

The brace was bar-hopping successful Harrisburg aft traveling determination from Collins' location successful Kempton, which is astir 70 minutes away, per PennLive.

After arriving astatine the scene, officers allegedly spoke with Collins and helium claimed helium had an altercation with Sarazen that led to him defending himself. "That [expletive] happening successful here," helium allegedly told constabulary portion describing Sarazen and what happened. "JFK ain't lying dormant successful that room, it's immoderate abdominous hooker," Collins added, according to investigators.

Local ABC affiliate WHTM reported that Sarazen was seemingly strangled to death.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Zawisky told jurors astatine the commencement of Collins' proceedings connected Monday that Sarazen was a "businesswoman" who visited Harrisburg often arsenic portion of her occupation moving with juvenile transgression offenders, and that she had met Collins portion drinking, PennLive reports. Police said she allegedly had a intoxicant contented (BAC) of .30 — astir 4 times the section ineligible driving limit, portion Collins' was reported to beryllium astir .175-.213.

The brace went up to Sarazen's edifice country that nighttime aft gathering and spent astir an hr and 10 minutes unneurotic earlier Collins called his person and allegedly said, "I [expletive] up, she's dead," according to prosecutors. Phone records amusement him allegedly talking to the pal for much than 15 minutes earlier Collins called 911 astatine astir 3:06 a.m. and reported what happened.

Zawisky told jurors connected Monday that Collins — who is 6 feet, 2 inches gangly and astir 270 pounds — changed his communicative aggregate times astir what occurred.

He allegedly settled connected the assertion that Sarazen, who is 5 feet, 1 inch gangly and 120 pounds, "ambushed" him aft helium caught her rummaging done his wallet, telling cops she ripped the hotel's landline telephone retired of the partition and attacked him with it, Zawisky said.

Collins denied having intersexual interaction with Sarazen, but her autopsy showed signs of intersexual battle and her assemblage had Collins' DNA connected it, with constabulary uncovering a wound people that helium allegedly gave Sarazen connected her buttocks, according to prosecutors. "You got maine walking down this hallway similar Cyrus 'The Virus,'" Zawisky recalled Collins telling an serviceman aft arriving astatine the Harrisburg constabulary station, successful notation to histrion John Malkovich's quality — a psychopath and rapist — successful the 1997 movie "Con Air."

"Ya spot this? I did this to myself," Collins allegedly told constabulary astatine 1 constituent astir a paper-cut-sized scratch connected his forehead, which helium antecedently claimed Sarazen had caused.

"Nah, I'm conscionable joking," Collins allegedly said.

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While being taken into custody, Collins allegedly told the serviceman who transported him that helium had paid Sarazen to slumber with him that night.

"Ya prosecute a woman of the nighttime and she tries to rob you," helium allegedly said. "She got the abbreviated extremity of that stick."

Collins' attorney, Jessica Bush, did not effort denying the grounds and comments stacked up against Collins. She alternatively argued that helium did not termination Sarazen with intent oregon malice, meaning his lawsuit does not conscionable the ineligible modular for convicting him of first-degree murder, which is the complaint against him. Bush told jurors that Collins drunkenly overreacted that nighttime aft seeing Sarazen allegedly going done his wallet and helium was excessively intoxicated to archer close from wrong. She blamed Sarazen's decease straight connected Collins' alleged drinking binge, claiming it started astir lunchtime, PennLive reports.

Zawisky said it was hard to judge the allegations owed to Sarazen's information erstwhile recovered by police.

"[Collins' story] doesn't adjacent instrumentality into relationship the harm and demolition to her little body, including her organs," Zawisky told the jury, with him noting however Sarazen suffered terrible injuries caused by Collins' alleged rape of her. "It was extreme, and it was overkill," Zawisky recounted. "She ne'er made it location due to the fact that of that man."

Collins allegedly has a past of convulsive attacks and incidents involving women. PennLive reports that helium has been charged successful the past for drunken outbursts against his cousin, a erstwhile neighbor, and a random mates astatine a bar. The execution proceedings is expected to proceed done the week, with Collins' facing beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole.