A woman steps out of her home in the middle of the afternoon.

We're talking 2 o'clock Pacific time.

No rush, no panic.

There's some discussion about whether or not she had just come back from walking her dog.

But it was just a routine walk in her own neighborhood in a suburb of Oakland, California.

She had no phone.

There was no warning, no trace.

And in a world that you know was blanketed by cameras, neighbors, noise, she

disappears into absolute silence.

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best

guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, SCS Nation?

Welcome to Surviving the Survivor.

It is the global phenomenon bringing you the very best guests in all of true crime.

And tonight we're diving into a case that says stunning as it is puzzling.

And it seems like we've had a lot of these cases lately.

I don't know what is in the water.

But tonight we're talking to Amy Hilliard.

She's a beloved coffee shop owner.

Her husband and her have coffee shops in the Bay Area, Oakland, San Francisco.

She is a mother of two, a woman deeply embedded in her community, working with

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