Erie Final Video of Missing Coffee Shop Owner: Where's Amy Hilliard?

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🗓️ 28 June 2026

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Summary

A new investigator has been brought in to investigate the disappearance of Amy Hillyard. The co-owner of Farley's Coffee has not been seen since Wednesday, March 25th, the Oakland community praying for her safe return.

Oakland, California police initially release information that Amy last seen near her home in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood around 2 pm, but surveillance footage places her near Dimond Park, about two miles away, at 4:30 pm that afternoon. Searches of the park have not revealed new leads.

Amy is considered "at-risk" due to an undisclosed medical condition. She is described as 5'4", 120 pounds, with blonde hair and hazel eyes, last seen wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers with a black stripe.

Amy's family say they are not giving up.

Anyone with information asked to call 911 or Oakland Police at 510-238-3641.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Jo-Anna Nieves - Criminal Defense Attorney and Founder of The Nieves Law Firm; Instagram, Facebook and X: nieveslawfirm, YouTube and TikTok: thenieveslawfirm
Brian Fitzgibbons – VP of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security; Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security, Kingsman Philanthropic’s 2022 rescue missions of women and children in Ukraine, Iraq War Veteranide_security
Dr. Rachel Toles - Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Author, “Inventing the Psychopath: How a Convenient Myth Makes the World More Dangerous,” coming 2027, Instagram and YouTube: TolzHaus, Facebook: Dr Rachel Toles
Dave Mack - Crime Stories Investigative Reporter

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:03.4	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.1	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:11.7	An eerie and haunting final video of a beloved Bay Area coffee shop owner.
0:27.3	She vanishes without a trace. Now, very disturbing new clues found inside her home. Where is coffee shop owner Amy Hilliard? I'm Nancy Grace. This is
0:36.5	Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us.
0:39.9	The last known sighting of a missing coffee shop owner has just been revealed. This is her family
0:46.0	desperately searches for her after she disappears seemingly without a trace. It's a surveillance
0:53.5	image showing Amy Hilliard walking her family dog
0:57.8	there in the Cleveland Heights area near Oakland, and it's just before she seemingly vanishes off the
1:04.0	face of the earth. In the last days, her family has hired a private investigator.
1:14.4	What more do we know about the disappearance of this beloved community fixture, Amy Hilliard, gorgeous, young, successful? Very high
1:22.5	profile in her neighborhood. Everybody loves her coffee shop. Extremely popular. Never a bad word about Amy
1:31.9	Hillier, the community banning together to have a vigil. She's disappeared days ago, last
1:39.9	seen to my understanding, in a public park. Where is she? Nobody, nobody, nobody just vanishes
1:48.2	off the face of the earth. It's not like we're in Harry Potter and you can apparate somewhere else.
1:54.4	That doesn't happen. Somebody knows where is Amy, joining us an all-star panel. But first, I want to go straight out to
2:02.5	Brian Fitzgibbon's Director of Operations, USA, nationwide security. He leads a team of
2:09.9	investigators that go around the world, searching for missing people and performing extractions of missing people.
2:19.7	Former Marine Iraqi War Vett.
2:22.5	I hate it.
2:24.2	Hate, hate, hate, hate when someone says they just disappeared like it's a vanishing act.
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