Hannah Kobayashi: Search for Maui woman goes on after her father found dead

The hunt for Hannah Kobayashi continues, 2 and a fractional weeks aft the Maui pistillate mysteriously disappeared aft failing to drawback a connecting formation from Los Angeles to New York.

Adding to the enigma is the caller quality that her father, Ryan Kobayashi, was found dead successful Los Angeles implicit the play aft helium travelled to the metropolis to hunt for her. The Los Angeles County aesculapian examiner’s bureau determined he died by suicide.

Kobayashi’s household has been searching tirelessly for the 31-year-old woman, their grief present compounded by the decease of Ryan.

“The household of Hannah Kobayashi is urgently pleading with the nationalist to support absorption connected the hunt for her,” the household wrote successful a statement connected Sunday. “Hannah IS inactive actively missing and is believed to beryllium successful imminent danger.”

Read connected to larn the timeline of Kobayashi’s disappearance and what we cognize astir the case.

A formation to New York

On Nov. 8, Kobayashi flew retired of Maui, destined for upstate New York to walk clip with an aunt.

She never boarded her connecting flight from Los Angeles International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport that aforesaid day.

Her sister, Sydni, antecedently told CNN that Kobayashi was connected the aforesaid formation arsenic her ex-boyfriend; they had booked the flights erstwhile they were a couple, but had since breached up. They decided to support the tickets due to the fact that they could not get a refund but planned to divided up to bask abstracted vacations erstwhile they got to New York, she said.

According to The Associated Press, she told her household she would sleep successful the airport that night.

The following time she was spotted astatine The Grove buying promenade successful downtown L.A., Fox News reports, spending clip successful a bookstore.

“She went to the bookstore and asked employees to complaint her phone. So she charged her telephone determination for an hr and a fractional portion she got food,” her aunt, Larie Pidgeon, told Fox past week.”She adjacent filled retired a mailing database with her Hawaiian address, and it’s successful her handwriting.”

On Nov. 10, 2 days aft missing her connecting flight, she was spotted astatine The Grove again, this clip appearing successful the inheritance of a YouTube video from a Nike and LeBron James lawsuit that was happening astatine the promenade that day. She besides posted to Instagram, sharing the lawsuit with her followers.

Strange substance messages, different sighting

Nov. 11 was the past time anyone saw oregon heard from Kobayashi. Her sister told CNN that erstwhile their parent sent Kobayashi a text to inquire if she yet made it to New York, she responded no.

More alarming, however, are substance messages Kobayashi sent to friends that day, saying she believed idiosyncratic was trying to bargain her individuality and wealth and that she did not consciousness safe.

“Deep Hackers wiped my identity, stole each of my funds, & person had maine connected a caput f**k since Friday,” 1 connection to a person said, according to Hawaii News Now.

Another connection said, “I got tricked beauteous overmuch into giving distant each my funds,” followed by 1 saying, “For idiosyncratic I thought I loved.”

“We started getting texts saying that she didn’t consciousness safe, that idiosyncratic was trying to bargain her funds, that idiosyncratic was trying to take her identity,” Pidgeon told USA Today of the texts. “Weird things, calling america babe, things that weren’t rather the mean mode that she speaks.”

Pidgeon besides told KITV that Kobayashi’s aunt successful New York received a connection from her niece’s phone that time that said: “I conscionable finished a precise aggravated spiritual awakening.”

Another substance apologized for “craziness,” adding afterward, “was decidedly intercepted.”

That aforesaid day, Kobayashi was seen connected surveillance footage astatine LAX speaking to an American Airlines ticketing cause for astir 40 minutes. The household says they judge she was trying to get disconnected standby presumption and get a nonstop formation retired of Los Angeles, but was unsuccessful.

She was besides spotted connected surveillance camera astatine the Pico Metro airy obstruction bid presumption successful downtown Los Angeles that evening, alongside an unidentified person, getting onto a train.

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Describing this sighting, Kobayashi’s household said successful a connection that “it is evident that Hannah does not look to beryllium successful bully information and she is not alone.”

Missing idiosyncratic study filed

On Nov. 12, Kobayashi’s household filed a missing idiosyncratic study and connected Nov. 15 the Los Angeles Police Department launched a societal media run asking the nationalist to travel guardant with information.

A poster informing the nationalist astir her disappearance said she was past seen astatine the airdrome and has freckles connected her look and a tattoo connected her forearm.

While officials person not released overmuch accusation successful the case, detectives told the household they are retracing Kobayashi’s steps and requesting further surveillance footage.

Kobayashi’s begetter dies

On Sunday, Ryan Kobayashi was recovered dormant extracurricular a concern adjacent LAX.

He had flown to Los Angeles to look for his girl and the erstwhile time took to the streets to manus retired flyers with respective unpaid groups spreading consciousness astir her disappearance.

While the Los Angeles Police Department did not corroborate the origin of death, his household disclosed that helium took his ain life.

“This nonaccomplishment has compounded the family’s suffering immeasurably,” they wrote successful a connection connected Facebook.

Pidgeon said she believes Ryan “died of a breached heart.”

“Being connected the streets and seeing what the possibilities of wherever his girl could be. No sleep. The speculating rumours that are going around. It conscionable took a toll connected him,” she continued, describing her brother-in-law arsenic the “most compassionate, delicate man,” and dismissing unfounded speculation that helium had been progressive successful his daughter’s disappearance.

“This is simply a antheral who conscionable had a mental breakdown from slumber depression,” Pidgeon said. “Suicide is not thing that was adjacent spoken of. It wasn’t adjacent a conception that we would deliberation would happen. And present we person suffered 2 tragedies. We’re hanging connected by a thread and we conscionable request the hunt to continue, due to the fact that there’s inactive anticipation for Hannah.”

Ryan’s niece, Emi Ko, has acceptable up a GoFundMe to rise wealth for his fiancée, Li Jaena.

“Ryan’s emotion for his household was boundless, and helium would bash thing to protect and attraction for his daughters,” Ko wrote successful the fundraiser’s description, which has raised much than US$5,500 arsenic of Tuesday morning.

Kobayashi is described arsenic 5 feet 10 inches gangly and astir 140 pounds, with brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes.

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