Larry “Butch” Hollinger was killed in north Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday, April 23, 2017, in a still-unsolved homicide. Available public records describe him as Larry Hollinger, a resident of Phoenix whose case is recorded as a homicide with his body found and his death dated that same day; his exact age has not been publicly released, but he is identified as a White/Caucasian male.
In the early hours of April 23, 2017, sometime between midnight and roughly 9:30–9:42 a.m., Hollinger was attacked and fatally injured by an unknown assailant or assailants. He was discovered outside an abandoned house at 3010 W. Northern Avenue, near 27th Avenue and Northern, a mixed residential and commercial area in north Phoenix. People without permanent housing had been staying inside the vacant building that night. When police and later Silent Witness investigators interviewed those individuals, they reported that they had not heard any arguments, disturbances, or other noises that might explain what happened to Hollinger during the time window in which he was killed, leaving investigators with very little in the way of eyewitness accounts or clear leads.
Phoenix police quickly classified the case as a homicide and asked for the public’s help. Silent Witness issued a formal flyer and case bulletin under case number 2017-2448, noting that Hollinger, also referred to by his nickname “Butch,” had been killed by “an unknown suspect or suspects” and emphasizing that none of the individuals in the house could provide useful information about who attacked him or why. The community-tip program announced a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and/or indictment of those responsible, and ABC15 news amplified the appeal, urging anyone with knowledge about the killing to contact Silent Witness.
Despite these efforts, the case remains open. Public case summaries and crime-tip listings continue to describe Hollinger’s homicide as unsolved, reiterating that the suspect or suspects are unknown and that investigators are still seeking information about what occurred outside the abandoned house that morning. There are no credible public reports of any named suspect, person of interest, or arrest connected to Larry Hollinger’s death in Phoenix, and law enforcement and tip-line bulletins continue to frame the investigation as an active cold case dependent on new information from the public.
