One month after Lazale Ashby went on trial for the gruesome slaying of Elizabeth Garcia, he wrote a note ... the pantry and burned the handle so my print aren’t on it. About how the police ...

Twenty years ago, on Sept. 9, 2003, Lazale Ashby was arrested and charged with rape and murder in the death of Elizabeth Garcia, a young mother who was killed in her Hartford apartment the winter ...

Lazale Ashby, 38, has been sentenced to 46½ years in prison for the 2002 murder of Elizabeth Garcia, 21, of Hartford. Ashby's sentence is the third he has received in connection with the case.