Family of woman who went missing on cross-country vacation says cryptic texts sent from phone unlike her

Hannah Kobayashi's household has gathered successful Los Angeles to retrace the missing photographer's steps aft she missed her transportation formation to New York past disappeared aft a bid of cryptic messages and a little quality with an chartless antheral connected surveillance footage adjacent Skid Row. 

The 31-year-old Oahu, Hawaii, nonmigratory had planned a abrogation to spot her aunt successful New York City and flew from Maui to Los Angeles International Airport connected Nov. 8, her aunt, Larie Pidgeon, told Fox News Digital. She was elated astir her archetypal euphony photography gig successful the city, had an progressive travel itinerary and had paid thousands for her edifice room, Pidgeon said.

Kobayashi was scheduled to instrumentality a connecting formation to New York, with a 40-minute layover astatine 11 a.m., and planned to spell to a amusement with her aunt, but she ne'er got connected that flight. Her household is unsure why.

Then friends and household received a flurry of bizarre substance messages that didn't lucifer the young woman's accustomed cadence. She texted a person that she "got tricked into beauteous overmuch giving distant each my funds" and that she was tricked "for idiosyncratic I thought I loved."

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Hannah Kobayashi, 31, was past seen connected surveillance footage from the Pico Metro presumption with an chartless antheral connected Nov. 11. She ne'er boarded her formation from LAX to JFK connected Nov. 8. (Larie Pidgeon)

"There was not a azygous emoji. She's an artist. ... Instead of a … question mark, she would enactment a crystal shot – she's conscionable that cute – and determination was nary of that," Pidgeon said connected Thursday. "She said that idiosyncratic was trying to bargain her funds, not cash, not money, funds. Like, who uses that word?"

"She [wrote she] was having a spiritual awakening, that she was acrophobic astir the matrix. It was conscionable the astir bizarre substance messages. And it went from, 'Hi, I can't hold to spot you guys. Love you. Everything's great.'"

Before sending the messages, Kobayashi was seen talking to a ticketing cause and trying to get a nonstop formation to New York alternatively than waiting connected standby, Pidgeon said.

Hannah Kobayashi is pictured connected surveillance footage from LAX connected Nov. 8. Her household says determination is besides surveillance footage from Nov. 11 showing her with an chartless antheral astatine the Pico Metro Station successful downtown Los Angeles but that it has yet to beryllium released to the public. (Missing People of America/Facebook)

Kobayashi's parent reported her missing connected Nov. 11, Pidgeon said, the time that communications from the woman's telephone to household and friends halted. Through their ain investigative work, the household viewed surveillance footage of Kobayashi from that time with an chartless antheral adjacent the Pico Metro presumption successful downtown L.A.

"The Pico presumption is successful a precise atrocious neighborhood, [and] it was precocious astatine night," Pidgeon said. "That causes america adjacent much alarm due to the fact that it's not a spot that Hannah would go. There's nary crushed that she would spell to a vicinity of crime. Even if she said, 'Hey, I request to spell get a edifice country due to the fact that I'm tired,' there's 18 hotels by the airdrome … she would person to person 2 transportation stations to get to this station."

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Hannah Kobayashi's household traveled to Los Angeles to administer fliers adjacent wherever she was past seen. (Larie Pidgeon)

Although Kobayashi's mother, Brandi Yee, filed a missing-persons study with the department, Pidgeon said detectives "haven't adjacent called [her] to speech to her astir the past conversations that we had with Hannah."

"We can't merchandise the footage; we would emotion to get it released to the nationalist by the LAPD," Pidgeon said connected Thursday. "We've seen it, we cognize that it's retired there, and we're like, 'Why is it not getting released?' At this constituent it's been 10 days, I consciousness similar it could assistance truthful overmuch successful the investigation."

The Los Angeles Police Department's property bureau could not corroborate whether they had viewed the footage oregon contacted the family, lone that Kobayashi had been reported missing and that they had distributed a flier connected their societal media accounts.

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Kobayashi sent mysterious texts to friends and household earlier losing interaction entirely, penning that she "got tricked into beauteous overmuch giving distant each [her] funds." (Larie Pidgeon)

Kobayashi besides charged her telephone with an worker wrong The Grove outdoor open-air promenade and had filled retired an exertion for a publication nine astatine the TASCHEN publication store utilizing her Hawaii code connected Nov. 11, her aunt said. Witnesses determination told the household that Kobayashi "was successful bully spirits" and said that "she had a small spot of clip to research successful L.A.," Pidgeon said.

"Every confirmed sighting that she has with an individual, she's of dependable mind," Pidgeon said of her conversations with those who past spoke to her niece. "She's happy, she's kind. She doesn't look [to be] drunk oregon connected immoderate substances. … That is wherefore we are present handing retired fliers and flying in, due to the fact that it is truthful dissimilar our character."

Kobayashi's household held a rally connected Thursday astatine the Crypto.com Arena to manus retired fliers and hunt the country adjacent wherever she was past seen.

"We're conscionable running," Pidgeon said. "You know, we're conscionable going down and up and down Skid Row."

Pidgeon described her niece, pictured, arsenic an outgoing idiosyncratic who makes those astir her laughter and dabbles successful occurrence spinning, DJing and foundation work. (Larie Pidgeon)

"We privation to bash arsenic galore interviews arsenic we can. The longer that we support her sanction retired there, the longer that she's connected the news, the amended accidental that her household has to get her back," Pidgeon said. "I've go a property secretary, a journalist, a photographer. This is however overmuch we emotion her."

Pidgeon said the 31-year-old "does everything" and dabbles successful occurrence spinning, DJing and foundation work. 

"She's a pivotal idiosyncratic successful her community, she's a fantastic person, a large daughter, she makes everyone laugh," Pidgeon said. "If I'm having a occupation astatine 2 a.m., I tin telephone Hannah due to the fact that she'll prime up."

Hannah Kobayashi, 31, was heading to New York City to sojourn family. (Hannah Kobayashi via Instagram)

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Friends and household person been making minute-long videos sharing memories of Kobayashi to administer nether the hashtag "#FindHannah." Thus far, Pidgeon said, astir 30 radical person sent videos, a testament to "how unthinkable she is."

"I'm conscionable grateful for each the different champion wishes and enactment from the assemblage and Hawaii, New York, California, each everywhere," Kobayashi's father, Ryan Kobayashi, told Fox News Digital. "You know, it's conscionable amazing. We miss you, Hannah. We emotion you. There's conscionable a connection anywhere. I'll start."

Anyone with accusation is asked to telephone the household astatine 845-750-3006.