Hannah Kobayashi's sister claims 'someone was controlling her' before disappearance

Hannah Kobayashi, a 30-year-old lensman from Hawaii, was heading to New York City connected November 8 for a caller occupation and to sojourn relatives erstwhile she missed her connecting formation successful Los Angeles

Hannah Kobayashi's devastated sister has claimed "someone was controlling her" earlier she mysteriously disappeared.

The budding 30-year-old photographer, from Maui, was heading to New York connected November 8 for a caller occupation and to sojourn relatives. During a halt astatine Los Angeles International Airport, she missed her connecting formation and told her household she would slumber successful the airdrome that night.

Family members assumed she was connected standby for different flight, according to her aunt, Larie Pidgeon. The adjacent day, Hannah texted them to accidental she was sightseeing successful Los Angeles, readying to sojourn The Grove buying promenade and downtown LA, Pidgeon said.

On November 11, the household received “strange and cryptic, conscionable alarming” substance messages from her telephone that referenced her being “intercepted” arsenic she got connected a Metro bid and being frightened that idiosyncratic mightiness beryllium stealing her identity, her aunt said.

Sister Sydni Kobayashi told NewsNation that the messages "feel similar idiosyncratic was controlling her.' "The substance messages that she past sent, successful my caput idiosyncratic was controlling her, they mightiness not person adjacent been her,' she said. 'So I privation to judge instrumentality enforcement are doing their jobs. Intuitively knowing her and being truthful adjacent to her my full life, I conscionable cognize this is perfectly not similar her.

Kobayashi’s father, Ryan Kobayashi, who had been successful the hunt party, was recovered dormant Sunday successful a car parkland adjacent LA International Airport by evident suicide, constabulary and her household said. Police said officers responded to reports of a assemblage astir 4 a.m. and discovered idiosyncratic dead.

Kobayashi’s household confirmed Ryan’s decease successful a Sunday statement, saying they “endured a devastating tragedy” and that helium died by suicide.

“After tirelessly searching passim Los Angeles for 13 days, Hannah’s father, Ryan Kobayashi, tragically took his ain life,” according to the statement. “This nonaccomplishment has compounded the family’s suffering immeasurably.”

Hannah's devastated aunt, Larie, described Ryan arsenic benignant and sensitive, telling Mail Online: "He conscionable broke... helium died of a breached heart. There's nary foul play. It's a tragedy. He had been searching for 11 days, precise minimal slumber - going into areas of downtown Los Angeles, seeing the enactment workers and Skid Row - and we judge arsenic the days continued to pass, it became excessively overmuch for him to carnivore and helium took his ain life." The household asked for privateness arsenic it grieves Ryan’s death.

A heartbreaking connection issued by her loved ones connected the Help Us Find Hannah Facebook leafage urged the nationalist to "remain vigilent". It reads: "The household of Hannah Kobayashi is urgently pleading with the nationalist to support focus connected the hunt for her. Hannah IS inactive actively missing and is believed to beryllium successful imminent danger."