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Members of the family of Hannah Kobayashi, a Hawaii lady who disappeared greater than two weeks in the past, disagree with a brand new assertion made by the Los Angeles Police Division of their investigation.
The 30-year-old Oahu, Hawaii, resident had deliberate a trip to see her aunt in New York Metropolis and flew from Maui to Los Angeles Worldwide Airport on Nov. 8, her aunt beforehand informed Fox Information Digital. She was scheduled to take a connecting flight to New York, with a 42-minute layover at 11 a.m., however she by no means obtained on that flight. Her household is not sure why.
Kobayashi’s household has stated that she returned to the airport on Nov. 11, however didn’t board a flight regardless of an in depth itinerary and a booked resort room in New York Metropolis. After receiving a flurry of unusual textual content messages that day adopted by a cutoff of communication, the household reported her lacking.
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Hannah Kobayashi is pictured on surveillance footage from LAX on Nov. 8. Her household stated that there’s further surveillance footage from Nov. 11 displaying her with an unknown man on the Pico Metro Station, however that it has but to be launched to the general public. (Lacking Folks of America/Fb)
At a Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners assembly on Tuesday, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell stated detectives decided the photographer missed her connecting flight on function.
“On Friday, November eighth, 23-year-old Hannah Kobayashi missed her connecting flight from LAX to New York, which the investigation decided was intentional,” McDonnell stated, misstating the lady’s age.
“On November fifteenth our lacking individuals unit assumed investigative duty. Detectives have been diligently reviewing video surveillance and using varied investigative methods to find Hannah, whereas her household has continued their private search efforts,” he stated, including that authorities “stay totally dedicated to finding Hannah.”
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Kobayashi despatched mysterious texts to family and friends earlier than shedding contact completely, writing that she “obtained tricked into just about freely giving all [her] funds.” (Larie Pidgeon)
Kobayashi’s household stated they had been unaware of any developments within the division’s investigation till they had been despatched footage of McDonnell’s speech. In a press release on social media, the lacking lady’s sister, Sydni Kobayashi, disputed that Kobayashi missed her flight deliberately and identified inaccuracies in McDonnell’s timeline of occasions.
“Primarily based on data, surveillance footage reviewed and knowledge shared with us, these are the info recognized to my mom and I: It doesn’t seem that Hannah deliberately missed her flight,” Sydni Kobayashi wrote in an Instagram put up.
“The shortage of communication surrounding some vital particulars has left us feeling excluded from probably essential developments,” the assertion added. “These alleged findings have but to be relayed to my mom and I instantly from the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Division or any detective concerned in Hannah’s case.”
Kobayashi’s household stated final week that the LAPD has cause to consider she continues to be in Los Angeles. The LAPD couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
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Hannah Kobayashi, 30, was heading to New York Metropolis to go to household. (Hannah Kobayashi by way of Instagram)
“Nevertheless, we do stay hopeful and optimistic that the Los Angeles Police Division is doing all the things of their energy to help us in finding Hannah,” her sister continued.
Kobayashi’s mom reported her lacking on Nov. 11, the day that communications from the lady’s telephone to household and pals halted, stated Kobayashi’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon. By way of their very own investigative work, the household seen surveillance footage of Kobayashi from that day with an unknown man close to the Pico Metro station in downtown L.A.
“The Pico station is in a really dangerous neighborhood, [and] it was late at night time,” Pidgeon stated. “That causes us much more alarm as a result of it is not a spot that Hannah would go. There is not any cause that she would go to a neighborhood of crime. Even when she stated, ‘Hey, I have to go get a resort room as a result of I am drained,’ there’s 18 accommodations by the airport… she must have two switch stations to get to this station.”
On Nov. 10, the photographer was captured on one other individual’s social media video taken at The Grove procuring complicated, her household stated. Kobayashi charged her telephone with an worker throughout the identical complicated the subsequent day and had stuffed out an software for a ebook membership on the TASCHEN ebook retailer utilizing her Hawaii tackle, her aunt stated.
Witnesses there informed the household that Kobayashi “was in good spirits” and stated that “she had just a little little bit of time to discover in L.A.,” Pidgeon stated.
Hannah Kobayashi, 30, was final seen on surveillance footage from the Pico Metro station with an unknown man on Nov. 11. She by no means boarded her flight from LAX to JFK on Nov. 8. (Larie Pidgeon)
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However since Nov. 11, there have been no new clues.
Kobayashi’s father, 58-year-old Ryan Kobayashi, was discovered useless in an obvious suicide round 4 a.m. on Nov. 24 after leaping from a parking construction, the LAPD confirmed to Fox Information Digital.
“We stay totally dedicated to finding Hannah and supporting the household as they navigate their means by this tragedy,” McDonnell stated on the Board of Police Commissioner’s assembly.
Regardless of the extra tragedy that befell the household, Kobayashi’s aunt informed Fox Information Digital final week that they’re “holding on by a thread however is not going to hand over.”
Kobayashi’s household stated anybody with data is requested to name the RAD Motion hotline at 619-904-0840.
