Dad of missing woman takes own life after flying to LA to try to find her

The dada of a missing Hawaiian pistillate who vanished took his ain beingness aft helium flew to LA to effort to find her.

Ryan Kobayashi had travelled from Hawaii to LA, retracing the steps his girl Hannah Kobayashi took earlier this period earlier she went missing.

On 8 November, the 31-year-old Ms Kobayashi travelled from Hawaii to LA, connected her mode to New York, but missed her connecting flight.

Her household initially thought she would drawback different 1 but she told them she had begun to research the area.

Then, connected 11 November, the household began receiving "strange and cryptic, conscionable alarming" substance messages from her phone.

They referenced her being "intercepted" arsenic she got connected a bid and being frightened idiosyncratic was trying to bargain her identity.

"Once the household started pressing, she went dark," her aunt Larie Pidgeon said.

Sky News US spouse web NBC News reported that 1 of the texts received by Ms Kobayashi's household read: "I got tricked beauteous overmuch into giving distant each my funds for idiosyncratic I thought I loved."

Mr Kobayashi flew retired to LA to effort and find her, searching with different household members and volunteers.

However, helium was recovered dormant connected Sunday successful a car parkland adjacent the LA International Airport having taken his ain life, constabulary and his household said.

In a statement, the household said: "After tirelessly searching passim Los Angeles for 13 days, Hannah's father, Ryan Kobayashi, tragically took his ain life.

"This nonaccomplishment has compounded the family's suffering immeasurably."

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They asked for privateness arsenic they grieved and requested the nationalist "maintain absorption connected the hunt for her. Hannah IS inactive actively missing and is believed to beryllium successful imminent danger. It is important for everyone to stay vigilant successful their efforts to find Hannah."

Ms Kobayashi is simply a budding lensman from Maui and had been heading to New York for a caller occupation and to sojourn relatives.

The RAD Movement, a web aimed astatine helping missing and exploited people, said successful an entreaty that successful footage, Ms Kobayashi "does not look to beryllium successful bully information and she is not alone".

Ms Pidgeon added that the hunt effort has been focused successful the downtown country of LA.

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