Hannah Kobayashi vanished somewhere in LA while on her way from Hawaii to New York City, and her father died days after arriving to search for her, leading to wild theories from online sleuths as authorities continue their investigations.
The 31-year-old from Hawaii was only transiting through on her way to New York City .In the days after she missed her flight on November 8, cryptic and alarming messages were sent from her phone.
Her aunt, Larie Pidgeon, said she charged her phone at a shop there and appeared to be in good spirits, according to people who remembered her."Any person that saw her said that she was in good health, she was in good sound mind." LAPD wouldn't confirm that CCTV footage placed Ms Kobayashi at a downtown metro station on November 11.
"It made us kind of scream even louder to the world that Hannah doesn't know anyone in LA, she's never been to LA, and she's boarding a train late in the evening with an unidentified person," Ms Pidgeon told the ABC. "It's very peculiar that she's just off the radar," said Sharie Finn, who works with the RAD Movement, which supports families in missing persons cases.The RAD Movement has a team working in downtown LA, near the site of the Pico metro, handing out fliers and speaking to people to try and glean any more information about Hannah's movements.fundraising pageReddit subgroup
Ms Finn from RAD has little time for all the theorising, including speculation about the father-daughter relationship or the young woman's possible ties to a cult."I don't believe she's willingly putting her family through this."We are realists, we don't go down those dark paths … it's not helpful.One working theory is that Ms Kobayashi has suffered some kind of mental health episode, but her aunt said she didn't believe that was the case.
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