Spartanburg Public Safety Increases Reward Offer for Cold Case
Detectives Hope Reward Will Solve 2005 Cold Case Murder (Added: January 28, 2013)
Spartanburg Public Safety detectives are hoping a $5,000 reward will help solve a eight year old murder case. (more)
Spartanburg Public Safety Cold Case Reward Poster
January 28, 2013
SPARTANBURG, S.C. Nearly eight years later, Pamela Williams is still trying to find out who shot and killed her younger brother.
“To this day it is just so hard to believe that you got heartless people that will do these kinds of things,” said Williams.
Azon Hollis was killed in October of 2005. Police tell us his body was found slumped over in a car on Appian Drive in Spartanburg. Now, Public Safety is revisiting the cold case, along with about 25 others.
Captain Regina Nowak says an investigator is assigned to each cold case. Some have no tips, and others have strong leads. Either way, Public Safety is now turning to bigger rewards to help close cases.
“We may have information about a suspect, but it's not solid information so the little piece of information someone may have, that may be the critical piece of information we need. And $5,000 is nothing,” said Nowak.
In the Hollis case, the reward jumped from a $1,000 to $5,000. Nowak says that happens when tips stop coming or when they're close to an arrest. And for some cases bigger rewards do bring in the right tips.
“On one of our cases, an investigator just recently received some information on it and was able to close out a case based on that information,” said Nowak.
As for Williams, she wants her brother's case closed too. She's hoping increasing the reward money will bring in more information, an arrest and closure.
"It will give us some peace of mind of what happened and why who done this,” said Williams. “We really don't know anything other than what we're hearing. And that's not a lot."
Spartanburg investigators tell 7 On Your Side they plan to spotlight one cold case a week.
If you have information on the Hollis case or others, you can call Crime Stoppers at 1.888.CRIME.SC.
“To this day it is just so hard to believe that you got heartless people that will do these kinds of things,” said Williams.
Azon Hollis was killed in October of 2005. Police tell us his body was found slumped over in a car on Appian Drive in Spartanburg. Now, Public Safety is revisiting the cold case, along with about 25 others.
Captain Regina Nowak says an investigator is assigned to each cold case. Some have no tips, and others have strong leads. Either way, Public Safety is now turning to bigger rewards to help close cases.
“We may have information about a suspect, but it's not solid information so the little piece of information someone may have, that may be the critical piece of information we need. And $5,000 is nothing,” said Nowak.
In the Hollis case, the reward jumped from a $1,000 to $5,000. Nowak says that happens when tips stop coming or when they're close to an arrest. And for some cases bigger rewards do bring in the right tips.
“On one of our cases, an investigator just recently received some information on it and was able to close out a case based on that information,” said Nowak.
As for Williams, she wants her brother's case closed too. She's hoping increasing the reward money will bring in more information, an arrest and closure.
"It will give us some peace of mind of what happened and why who done this,” said Williams. “We really don't know anything other than what we're hearing. And that's not a lot."
Spartanburg investigators tell 7 On Your Side they plan to spotlight one cold case a week.
If you have information on the Hollis case or others, you can call Crime Stoppers at 1.888.CRIME.SC.
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