Hidden clues over Hannah Kobayashi's 'kidnapping': Mystery of the missing 30-year-old took a tragic twist when her father killed himself. Now TOM LEONARD reveals the bizarre messages and sighting that may hold the answer...

Written neatly connected a notebook leafage adorned with doodles, 30-year-old Hannah Kobayashi had acceptable down everything she’d planned to bash connected a 4,900 mile ‘bucket-list’ travel from Hawaii to New York.

Instead, her travel has ended successful a chaotic treble calamity aft she went missing earlier this month. On Sunday, her distraught begetter took his ain beingness aft fruitless attempts to find her.

Ryan Kobayashi, 58, was recovered dormant adjacent Los Angeles Airport aft jumping disconnected a multi-storey car parkland – 2 weeks aft his daughter, a budding photographer, had been expected successful the Big Apple connected a five-day travel to photograph unrecorded euphony gigs arsenic good arsenic sojourn relatives extracurricular the city.

Having spent thousands of dollars connected edifice rooms and performance tickets, she’d conscionable been fixed a Press walk and, says her family, couldn’t person been much excited.

However, successful a profoundly puzzling enigma that was gripping the US adjacent earlier her devastated father’s suicide, investigators present fearfulness Hannah ne'er got farther than LA.

Mr Kobayashi, who was divorced from Hannah’s mother, had been among household members and friends who’d flown from their location connected the Hawaiian land of Maui to look for Hannah.

A enactment radical for the household said his decease had ‘compounded the family’s suffering immeasurably’. They stay profoundly disquieted astir her information and, aft she was pictured leaving LA’s main airdrome with an chartless person, fearfulness she was kidnapped.

Mr Kobayashi, besides a photographer, had spent 13 days searching LA, including Skid Row, wherever homeless radical and cause addicts unrecorded successful a squalid structure city. He had earlier told CNN: ‘Hannah loved to travel. She loved photography, art, music. I wasn’t excessively adjacent with her . . . increasing up.’

He added: ‘I’m conscionable trying to marque up. I’m trying to get her back.’

His erstwhile sister-in-law, Larie, said helium ‘just died of a breached heart’. She added: ‘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 said that progressively bizarre conspiracy theories swirling connected societal media whitethorn person worsened Mr Kobayashi’s fragile intelligence state. They see bizarre speculation that she was brainwashed by a New Age cult called Twin Flames oregon that she was being blackmailed by African hackers.

Her household sought to chopped disconnected different chaotic subdivision of conjecture by stressing that Mr Kobayashi had nary engagement successful his daughter’s disappearance. They besides addressed claims that Hannah had had a psychotic breakdown, insisting that she had nary past of intelligence illness.

And yet a much mundane mentation for her disappearance remains elusive.

Hannah flew from her autochthonal Maui to LA connected November 8, arriving astatine 9.53pm section time. She was meant to marque a connecting formation to New York, having booked tickets with a fellow with whom she’d since breached up.

They’d decided to support their tickets arsenic they couldn’t get a refund and simply spell their abstracted ways successful New York.

However, portion the ex-boyfriend – who has not yet been named – was capable to marque the connection, Hannah told her household that she’d missed it, and was trying to get connected a caller flight. But information camera footage captured her leaving the airport, carrying lone a backpack. And the pursuing day she went into an creation bookshop astatine a astute buying centre called The Grove successful downtown LA – 10 miles distant – for reasons her household tin lone enactment down to her emotion of exploring.

Staff astatine the Taschen bookstore accidental she asked them if she could complaint her telephone portion she went to get immoderate food. She adjacent filled retired a mailing database and gave her Hawaiian address. Staff accidental she seemed successful bully spirits. However, she past sent an physics outgo to 2 radical whose names her household didn’t recognise.

The pursuing time – November 10 – Hannah returned to the aforesaid buying centre and, accidental staff, to the aforesaid bookshop. At 3.40pm, she appeared successful the inheritance of a video changeable extracurricular a Nike lawsuit astatine The Grove featuring hoops prima LeBron James. She posted a photograph of the lawsuit connected Instagram. Hannah, who has a tattoo of a weapon connected 1 forearm, was wearing the aforesaid apparel – achromatic hooded sweatshirt and tie-dye leggings – she’d had connected erstwhile she got disconnected the formation from Hawaii.

A time aboriginal she was backmost astatine LAX Airport arranging an American Airlines formation to New York. Again, she didn’t get connected it. However, by then, her household and friends had started receiving oddly phrased messages that her aunt described arsenic ‘super unusual and alarming’.

‘We started getting texts saying that she didn’t consciousness safe, that idiosyncratic was trying to bargain her funds, that idiosyncratic was trying to instrumentality her identity,’ said her aunt, Larie Pidgeon. In one, Hannah wrote: ‘I conscionable finished a precise aggravated spiritual awakening.’ She said she was heading to New York but ‘I mightiness request immoderate assistance getting there, it’s a agelong story’.

Another connection apologised for her ‘craziness’, adding she had been ‘intercepted’. In others, she said she was disquieted idiosyncratic mightiness beryllium trying to bargain her wealth and identity. ‘I got tricked beauteous overmuch into giving distant each my funds,’ work a connection to 1 of Hannah’s friends. A 2nd to the aforesaid recipient added: ‘For idiosyncratic I thought I loved.’

A peculiarly sinister substance said: ‘Deep Hackers wiped my identity, stole each of my funds, & person had maine connected a caput f*** since Friday.’ In another, she said: ‘Matrix benignant . . . I’m harmless . . . For the bully of each . . . I volition support you posted.’

Her relatives present judge they were either sent by idiosyncratic other oregon by Hannah nether duress.

As her aunt explained, Hannah often utilized emojis for words – and yet the messages they received didn’t incorporate a azygous emoji. ‘There were words similar “funds” . . . Who uses that word?’ she said.

Hannah’s telephone was reportedly switched disconnected astatine the airdrome and has since sent nary much messages. However, she was aboriginal spotted connected CCTV connected November 11 getting connected a Metro bid successful LA with an unidentified idiosyncratic she hadn’t mentioned to her family.

‘She knows nary 1 successful LA. Our full household knows nary 1 successful LA,’ said her aunt.

At astir 10pm that night, footage shows the brace leaving the Pico Metro Station successful a unsmooth cardinal LA neighbourhood that her household insists their girl would ne'er usually visit.

Images person not been released – but Hannah’s household said successful a statement: ‘It is evident that Hannah does not look to beryllium successful bully information and she is not alone.’

They filed a missing persons study the pursuing time and LA constabulary launched a societal media run to find her, though Hannah’s loved ones person complained the authorities didn’t instrumentality their claims earnestly for 10 days.

Her Aunt Larie said Hannah had been determined to get to New York and readying the travel for months. ‘She’d yet got a Press pass…it was 1 of the biggest accomplishments of her life,’ she said. She dismissed speculation that she had been drunk oregon connected drugs erstwhile she disappeared.

‘Everything conscionable doesn’t adhd up,’ said her begetter Ryan soon earlier his death. ‘There’s truthful overmuch confusion.’ His death, tragically, has lone accrued it.