Update April 3: Friends and family have created a website to hold information and updates on Hillyard and the search enters a second week.
March 31: Local law enforcement from Alameda County and volunteer search parties were staged at Zion Lutheran Church off of Park Boulevard on Tuesday morning as they continued to look for Amy Hillyard, missing since March 25.
One of Tuesday’s searches was centered around Sausal Creek and Dimond Canyon. A coordinated search of Dimond Park was carried out by the Oakland Police Department and assisted by the Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin county sheriff’s offices and 60 of Hillyard’s friends, family and volunteers, Oakland police said Tuesday.
News helicopters circled the area for hours before departing around noon.
Amy Hillyard was last seen around 2:00 p.m. on March 25, 2026, in the 500 block of Radnor Road. Friends and family posted an update on social media this week saying she was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers with a black stripe.
Hillyard is described as a 52-year-old White female, standing 5’4” tall and weighing 120 pounds. She has blonde hair and hazel eyes.
Hillyard is known to many in the Piedmont and Oakland communities as a co-owner of the popular Farley’s coffee shops. She is also listed as the president of the board of the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. Members of the community along with her friends and family gathered for a candlelight hope vigil for her on Sunday by Lake Merritt.
If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Hillyard, please contact the Oakland Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (510) 238-3641.