{"id":554958,"date":"2026-03-30T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:03:08","slug":"family-of-missing-bay-area-coffee-shop-owner-asks-for-another-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554958\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of missing Bay Area coffee shop owner asks for another search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST March 30, 12:15 p.m.\u00a0The family of Amy Hillyard has requested another search for the missing 52-year-old woman, according to the Oakland Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department also clarified that Hillyard was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers with a black stripe\u00a0before she disappeared, the Oakland Police Department said in a statement to SFGATE. Police previously said she\u00a0was wearing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/amy-hillyard-farleys-missing-22155783.phphttps:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/amy-hillyard-farleys-missing-22155783.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tan-colored top and pants<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posters for Hillyard have been appearing throughout downtown Oakland and San Francisco, with some near Jack London Square, Grand Avenue and the Powell Street BART Station. The posters have also been spotted on the window of Farley\u2019s East coffee shop in Oakland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/oakland-coffee-shop-owner-missing\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTVU-TV reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hillyard, her husband, told SFGATE on Friday that the family doesn\u2019t have many details.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissing since 2pm Wednesday. That\u2019s all we know,\u201d her husband said in an email.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>March 30, 9:24 a.m.\u00a0CHP\u00a0issued an endangered missing alert for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/amy-hillyard-farleys-missing-22155783.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">52-year-old Amy Hillyard<\/a> on Sunday.\u00a0The alert was sent to mobile phones in the East Bay area in the evening four days after Hillyard went missing.<\/p>\n<p>Hillyard was last seen on March 25 around 2 p.m. walking on Radnor Road in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood of Oakland. She was wearing light blue jeans, a white top and white sneakers with a black stripe, according to the\u00a0CHP <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CHPAlerts\/status\/2038474855834861625\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">alert<\/a>. The Oakland Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandca.gov\/News-Releases\/Police\/Missing-Person-Amy-Hillyard\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consider<\/a>\u00a0Hillyard at risk due to medical conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hillyard,\u00a0along with her husband, are the owners of legacy institution Farley\u00a0Coffee, which has locations in both Oakland and San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement sent to SFGATE on Friday, the business said: \u201cOur hearts go out to Amy and her family and friends during this difficult time. She has been a passionate and active member of the Oakland community for 20+ years. We hope that she returns safely and we appreciate any information.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday evening, a candlelight vigil was held in Hillyard\u2019s honor with hundreds of people attending near Lake Meritt in Oakland, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/amy-hillyard-candlelight-vigil-held-missing-oakland-coffee-shop-owner-community-holds-hope\/18806321\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KGO-TV.<\/a> Friends and neighbors of Hillyard told the outlet they\u2019re holding out hope she will return and encouraged people in the area to check their security footage in case she is visible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Farley\u00a0Coffee was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/food\/article\/Farleys-coffee-is-potrero-hill-gathering-place-16575017.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened<\/a> by\u00a0Hillyard\u2019s father-in-law Roger Hillyard in 1989 in San Francisco. It was named after Roger Hillyard\u2019s grandfather Jack Farley, who disappeared in the Midwest in 1920.<\/p>\n<p>SFGATE\u00a0California editor Tessa McLean contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST March 30, 12:15 p.m.\u00a0The family of Amy Hillyard has requested another search for the missing 52-year-old woman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,243150,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-554958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-sfgnews","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}