The Skeleton Key Chronicles

15 hours ago

In the middle of the afternoon on March 25th, a well-known Oakland, California coffee shop owner and mom of two stepped out for a walk near her home and hasn’t been seen since. 52-year-old Amy Hillyard was last seen Wednesday around 2 p.m. on Radnor Road, in the Cleveland Heights area. She did not have her cell phone.

Hillyard co-owns Farley’s East coffee shop on Grand Avenue with her husband, Chris, and they also run the original Farley’s location in San Francisco.

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has brought in search-and-rescue teams, including trailing K9 units, to work through targeted areas, but so far those efforts have not led to her being located. They are also reviewing any available camera footage from the surrounding area.

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

20 hours ago

These images coming out of Western Australia are unreal. On Friday the skies over parts of the region turned deep shades of red and orange as Tropical Cyclone Narelle approached the coast.

Photos from places like Shark Bay Caravan Park show everything completely washed in red, almost like a filter over everything. But its not. Apparently the red/orange look comes from dust in the air filtering sunlight, letting more of the red/orange tones come through.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

1 day ago

Brian Shaffer was 27 years old and a medical student at Ohio State University when he walked into the Ugly Tuna Saloona in Columbus, Ohio on April 1, 2006. Cameras captured him entering just before closing time, but there is no footage of him ever leaving.

Around 2 a.m., he was seen on surveillance footage near the entrance, speaking with two women. That was the last confirmed sighting of him. As the bar closed and people began filtering out into the early morning hours, his friends expected him to come out with the crowd. He didn’t. At first, they assumed he had left on his own.

At the time, Shaffer was just days away from that trip with his girlfriend, Alexis Waggoner, and had been thinking about proposing. When he didn’t show up for that spring break trip days later, concern quickly turned into something more serious.

An extensive search and police investigation followed. Flyers were distributed, buttons bearing his photo were worn, and family, friends, and fellow medical students spent months searching around the Ohio State campus and beyond, trying to find any sign of him.

As the years passed, Brian’s case became one of the most widely discussed missing person cases in Ohio, largely because no one has ever been able to explain what happened to him. In 2021, investigators released an age-progressed image showing what Brian may look like today, now in his early 40s, in the hope that someone might recognize him and come forward.

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