{"id":260109,"date":"2026-04-09T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:56:07","slug":"husband-of-missing-oakland-coffee-shop-owner-issues-plea-after-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260109\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband of missing Oakland coffee shop owner issues plea after 2 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The husband of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/amy-hillyard-missing-search-22190081.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing Oakland coffee shop owner<\/a> released a new video Wednesday, urging the public to help find his wife, who has been missing for over two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hillyard urged the community to continue searching for his wife, Farley\u2019s coffee shop co-owner Amy Hillyard, 52, in a video posted April 9 on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bringamyhome.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> dedicated to her search.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmy\u2019s superpower is to bring out the best in people,\u201d he said. \u201c&#8230; Now we need those powers to bring her home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was last seen around 2 p.m. on March 25 leaving her home on the 500 block of\u00a0Radnor Road in Oakland\u2019s Cleveland Heights neighborhood, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandca.gov\/News-Releases\/Police\/Missing-Person-Amy-Hillyard?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQyl4xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeMyEI5izlITzLWKWDBddNeHsfyaZknwWIUUi4gaxJwwg5-U6jUo6JxqZjVoI_aem_asyVVwRum_USBTRY4Z4JlA\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Police Department<\/a>. Her disappearance has prompted a large-scale search involving more than 400 volunteers, along with the Oakland\u00a0Police Department and Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Authorities believe she left on foot and consider her at risk due to a medical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt times, the pain of not having her here by my side is unbearable,\u201d Chris said, adding that the support of volunteers has given him \u201chope and the strength to continue.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Search teams have canvassed areas, including Skyline Gate in the Oakland hills, a place loved ones say she frequently visited, but those efforts have not produced new leads.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers have also reviewed surveillance footage, including from BART stations, while investigators continue to follow up on tips and conduct additional video canvassing in surrounding neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Hillyard is 5 feet, 4 inches tall, about 120 pounds, with blonde hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a white short-sleeve shirt, light jeans and white sneakers with black stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Oakland police at 510-238-3641.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The husband of a\u00a0missing Oakland coffee shop owner released a new video Wednesday, urging the public to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,1692],"class_list":["post-260109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sfgnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}