The Skeleton Key Chronicles

21 hours ago

More than two weeks have passed since 52-year-old Amy Hillyard stepped out for an afternoon walk near her Oakland home and didn’t return. She was last seen on March 25th around 2 p.m. on Radnor Road in the Cleveland Heights area, and she did not have her cell phone with her.

Hillyard is a local business owner and mom of two, co-running Farley’s East on Grand Avenue with her husband, Chris, along with the original Farley’s location in San Francisco.

Since then, the search has gradually expanded beyond where she was last seen. Updates shared by loved ones on the Bring Amy Home site show efforts now reaching into areas she was known to spend time, including a hiking spot several miles away. Teams spent hours searching there, but it didn’t lead to anything new.

That same site has become a central place for updates as friends work alongside investigators, reviewing hours of transit footage in hopes of spotting her somewhere along the system. Police are continuing their own video canvass as well, while following up on tips that continue to come in.

Anyone in the Oakland area who may have seen Amy that afternoon, or has camera footage from Radnor Road or nearby streets, is asked to contact the Oakland Police Department.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

1 day ago

A new search is underway in Southwest Washington, focusing on the disappearance of 16-year-old Jamie Rochelle Grissim more than five decades ago. Yesterday investigators with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office conducted a coordinated ground search in the Dole Valley area near Yacolt, focusing on a location identified through new information gleaned last year.

Grissim was last seen on December 7, 1971, after leaving Fort Vancouver High School. Attendance records later confirmed she attended two classes that day before leaving campus. She was never seen again. Early on, investigators considered the possibility that she had left on her own, but her family pushed back, noting she left nearly all of her belongings and savings behind.

About six months after she went missing, her purse and identification were found in a remote part of Clark County, roughly forty-four miles north of Vancouver. Then in October 1974, the remains of two young women, Martha Morrison and Carol Valenzuela, were found within about a mile of that location, with both cases later connected to convicted serial offender Warren Leslie Forrest.

In late 2025, investigators spoke with a potential witness who said they had discovered the remains of a young female in a wooded area around the same time Grissim went missing. The area now being searched sits roughly 1,500 feet from where those 1974 remains were found.

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1 day ago

When Bette Davis was asked about the passing of her on and off-screen nemesis Joan Crawford, she said, “You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”

Davis was forever enmeshed with Crawford after their appearance in the campy psychological thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. In the film, Davis plays a former child star holding her paralyzed sister, played by Crawford, inside their Hollywood mansion. The ultimate tale of sibling rivalry only intensified the long-standing feud between the two leading ladies.

Things heated up again when Davis and Crawford were once again cast in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, which further ramped up their already turbulent history behind the scenes. Crawford ultimately stepped away from the production and was replaced by Olivia de Havilland.

In 2017 Ryan Murphy later brought their story back into the spotlight with season one of Feud, starring Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange as Davis and Crawford, the series dives into their complicated history. You can check it out on Hulu.

Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis
April 5, 1908 ~ October 6, 1989

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur)
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