Amy Hillyard, the beloved owner of a Bay Area coffee shop, was working through mental health challenges when she vanished last month, her husband said Thursday, but he remained hopeful that she would return home.
“We won’t stop searching for Amy until we have answers,” her husband, Chris Hillyard, said in an exclusive interview with the Chronicle. “We believe she is still alive.”
When she disappeared, he said, she was “recovering” from depression and anxiety stemming from the death of a close friend and one of the family’s dogs, as well as extensive caretaking of close relatives…