{"id":333002,"date":"2026-05-26T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:55:09","slug":"oakland-coffee-shop-owner-amy-hillyard-missing-for-2-months-vigil-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333002\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland coffee shop owner Amy Hillyard missing for 2 months, vigil held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vigil was held on Monday by friends and family of Amy Hillyard, two months after the Oakland mother and coffee shop owner mysteriously disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/oakland-coffee-shop-co-owner-reported-missing-at-risk\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was last seen at her home near Lake Merritt on the afternoon of March 25<\/a>. Hillyard is considered at-risk, as she was taking mental health medication when she went missing, while also leaving behind valuables, like her phone and wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland police continue to investigate as they say they&#8217;ve found no evidence of foul play or any crime, such as kidnapping. Hillyard and her husband own Farley&#8217;s East coffee shop in downtown Oakland and Farley&#8217;s, a coffee shop in San Francisco&#8217;s Potrero Hill neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>On the two-month mark of her disappearance, the vigil was held as leads run dry.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/amy-hillyard-oakland-032726.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"amy-hillyard-oakland-032726.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Amy Hillyard, 52, was reported missing after she was last seen on Radnor Road in Oakland on March 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Oakland Police Department<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish there was something that we could jump on, otherwise we wouldn&#8217;t be here,&#8221; Alexandra, Amy&#8217;s sister told CBS News Bay Area. &#8220;Honestly we have no new leads. We have no new information. The best thing is just people sending anything they have into OPD. That&#8217;s the best chance we have of following up on anything and we haven&#8217;t had anything. We have nothing at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tejal Patel, Hillyard&#8217;s friend, said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve been patterning with OPD obviously and with a private investigator, as well as so many volunteers and friends and family to just continue looking for her in places she might be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amy&#8217;s husband, Chris Hillyard, thanked everyone for being there and still providing hope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still hoping. We are still believing. And we are still waiting for the day we can bring you home. We love you,&#8221; Chris said.<\/p>\n<p>The vigil was also held in honor of those still missing in Oakland, as May is Missing and Unidentified Persons Month. OPD&#8217;s Missing Persons&#8217; Unit manages about 1,500 missing persons&#8217; cases every year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amy is the queen of gathering community and making a difference and enacting positive change. And being able to have folks out here remembering all those families that are going through this,&#8221; Alexandra said. &#8220;Honoring Amy and providing hope for her is something that she would absolutely do for anyone in her community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A $25,000 reward has been offered for information leading to Hillyard&#8217;s safe return.<\/p>\n<p>Police described Hillyard as 5&#8217;4&#8243; tall, 120 pounds, with blonde hair and hazel eyes. She was reportedly last seen wearing a tan-colored top and tan pants.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have information on Hillyard&#8217;s whereabouts is asked to contact the department&#8217;s Missing Persons&#8217; Unit at 510-238-3641.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vigil was held on Monday by friends and family of Amy Hillyard, two months after the Oakland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5845,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-333002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-missing-person","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333002","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=333002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}