{"id":260900,"date":"2026-04-10T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260900\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:53:10","slug":"missing-oakland-womans-husband-speaks-out-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260900\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Oakland woman&#8217;s husband speaks out for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More than two weeks after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/candlelight-vigil-held-missing-oakland-132515544.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oakland business owner disappeared from her home;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Oakland business owner disappeared from her home&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland business owner disappeared from her home<\/a>, we are now hearing from her husband for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Amy&#8217;s superpower is to bring out the best in people. She made me a better person. She makes most people she comes in contact with a better person. She&#8217;s able to bring out everyone&#8217;s superpowers. Now, we need those powers to bring her home,&#8221; said Chris, Amy Hillyard&#8217;s husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fifty-two-year-old Amy Hillyard left her home in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood near Lake Merritt on March 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/missing-oakland-womans-friend-shares-162244511.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Missing Oakland woman&#039;s friend shares message for her nearly 2 weeks since disappearance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Missing Oakland woman&#039;s friend shares message for her nearly 2 weeks since disappearance&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Oakland woman&#8217;s friend shares message for her nearly 2 weeks since disappearance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was last seen near Dimond Park, where a search was conducted last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hillyard, who owns Farley&#8217;s Coffee with her husband, is considered at-risk due to an undisclosed medical condition.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/131c44567cfd550c1c93df1368fb6896.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;re on the ABC7 News app, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here to watch live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here to watch live&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here to watch live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than two weeks after an Oakland business owner disappeared from her home, we are now hearing from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[107912,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-260900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-amy-hillyard","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260900","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=260900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}