Hannah Kobayashi missing Hawaii woman spotted crossing into Mexico as Los Angeles police believe she intentionally missed her connecting flight to NYC and that there is no evidence of foul play in her disappearance amid speculation she may have planned getaway. Last spotted with mystery man.
A missing Hawaii woman who has become the focus of a national search, with her family concerned about the ‘missing’ woman’s whereabouts and well-being may have intentionally missed a connecting flight to NYC after arriving in Los Angeles last month.
In latest developments in the case that has gripped the U.S, Hannah Kobayashi, 30, who went missing last month, was spotted according to authorities entering Mexico.
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Law enforcement sources have since reiterated that the ‘missing’ woman may have sought to not be found of her own volition and that there was no evidence of foul play in her disappearance.
‘She’s an adult and she can choose to be missing,’ a senior Los Angeles law enforcement official told NBCLA. Detectives stressed that they were hopeful that Kobayashi would get in touch with authorities so they could confirm she’s safe and traveling of her own free will.
Investigators said border security video showed Kobayashi leaving the United States near Tijuana between Nov. 12 and 13, a day or so after members of her family said they had last heard from her via text message and reported her missing.
There have been no confirmed communications with her since then, and authorities said they suspect Kobayashi may have intentionally left her cellphone somewhere in Los Angeles.
The revelations follow comments last week from LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell who stated that it appeared Hannah chose to remain in Los Angeles on Nov. 8 after her flight from Hawaii landed at LAX, and she failed to board the flight for the next leg of her planned trip to New York.
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‘Which, the investigation determined was intentional,’ McDonnell told the Board of Police Commissioners.
The developments come more than a week after Hannah’s father was found dead, after Ryan Kobayashi, 58, jumping to his suicide death from a car garage near LAX on November 24.
The father who admitted having lost touch with his daughter had traveled from Hawaii to Los Angeles in a bid to assist in the search for his missing daughter. Seemingly the parent had despaired during the nearly two weeks he had been in Los Angeles, visiting Skid Row in the hopes of finding his own daughter, only to no avail, before taking his own life.
Hannah Kobayashi’s family said it last had contact with her around Sunday, Nov. 10 when she said she had returned to LAX to try to get on another flight to New York, and family members characterized some of the text messages as, ‘strange,’ before losing contact.
‘Messages saying she did not feel safe, she was worried about people stealing her money, it was after that those strange messages she went dark,’ Kobayashi’s aunt Laire Pidgeon told NBCLA on Nov. 19.
It remained unclear if Hannah had sought to distract her own family from a plan she may have devised to go her own way following a recent alleged split with a boyfriend who she had originally planned to travel from Hawaii to NYC. The man made the trek and has not been in touch with Hannah.
Captured video surveillance showed Hannah with an unknown male at a Metro train station on November 11, before she was last seen on surveillance entering Mexico a day later.
