Mystery of Hannah Kobayashi's last known steps and text that made family's blood run cold

It's been 2 weeks since Hannah Kobayashi, 30, went missing aft landing astatine Los Angeles International Airport and her devastated household are present grieving a 2nd loss

A immense manhunt to find a missing pistillate has taken a tragic crook aft her begetter devastatingly took his ain life.

Hannah Kobayashi, 30, mysteriously vanished 2 weeks ago during a layover astatine Los Angeles International Airport, wherever she was meant to committee a connecting formation to New York. The Maui autochthonal has not been seen since November 8 and is said to person sent concerning texts to loved ones.

After tirelessly searching for his girl crossed LA for 11 days, Hannah's father, Ryan Kobayashi, took his ain beingness connected Saturday night. The 58-year-old died adjacent 1 of Hannah's past known locations, with friends present saying helium passed distant of a 'broken heart' arsenic it was 'too overmuch to bear'.

Hannah's devastated aunt, Larie Pidgeon, 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."

As the Kobayashi household navigates a traumatic 2nd loss, they are adjacent much determined to find Hannah. A heartbreaking connection issued by her loved ones connected the Help Us Find Hannah Facebook leafage contiguous has 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."

Hannah's relatives besides shared her spine-chilling past connection to them. They wrote connected Facebook: "Hannah's past connection to america was alarming - she mentioned feeling frightened and that idiosyncratic mightiness beryllium trying to bargain her wealth and identity. She hasn't been heard from since, and we are gravely acrophobic for her safety." The Hawaiian aspiring lensman is besides said to person told a person she discovered a "spiritual awakening".

Hannah had made plans to sojourn her aunt successful New York and took a formation from Maui to LA connected November 8. She was expected to question to JKF International Airport that aforesaid day, but did not committee the connecting flight. Hannah was travelling with her ex-boyfriend but they agreed to spell abstracted ways successful NY, her sister Sydni Kobayashi told CNN.

On November 9, Hannah was spotted astatine a bookstore astatine The Grove buying centre successful LA. She past sent a outgo to 2 radical whose names the household did not recognise. The pursuing day, Hannah attended the LeBron XXII Trial Experience astatine the Nike store successful the aforesaid buying centre.

On November 11, she told her parent by substance that she did not marque it to NY. She besides told a person she did not consciousness safe. One connection read: "Deep hackers wiped my identity, stole each of my funds, and person had maine connected a caput f**k since Friday." Another read: "I got tricked beauteous overmuch into giving distant each my funds. For idiosyncratic I thought I loved."

That day, CCTV footage showed Hannah astir the Pico Metro Station with an unidentified idiosyncratic astir 10pm. Describing the sighting, her household said, "it is evident that Hannah does not look to beryllium successful bully information and she is not alone". The adjacent day, the Los Angeles Police Department launched a missing person's campaign.

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