A collection of troubling textual content messages has heightened considerations for a Hawaii girl who vanished whereas on her solution to a “bucket list” trip in New York Metropolis.
Hannah Kobayashi, 31, was supposedly en path to see her aunt within the Large Apple when she texted a good friend that she “got tricked into pretty much giving away all my funds,” her nervous household instructed HawaiiNewsNow.
In a second message, Kobayashi instructed the good friend that she was supposedly hoodwinked “for someone I thought I loved.”
She claimed that “deep hackers” had stolen her id and her cash, then advised that she would possibly go to a homeless shelter, or catch a bus “to the redwoods” whereas apologizing for the “craziness” and “weird s–t.”
Kobayashi, of Haiku, flew from Maui to Los Angeles on Nov. 8, and was meant to make a connecting flight to New York.
Surveillance footage reveals her arriving in LA, however she missed her connecting flight 42 minutes later.
“I didn’t hear from her,” mentioned Kobayashi’s mom, Brandi Yee.
“I texted her, ‘Hey, are you in New York City yet?’ She just texted me, ‘Not yet.’”
Kobayashi was wanting ahead to the New York journey together with her aunt, and even made a handwritten itinerary with the notice, “bucket list dreams become a reality,” her mother mentioned.
A brief video, nevertheless, appeared to point that Kobayashi was nonetheless in Los Angeles on Saturday – when she was noticed at an occasion, HawaiiNewsNow famous.
Her telephone has been off since Monday, when her final pinned location put her again at LAX.
“She texted [the friend] that she was scared and that she couldn’t come back home or something. It was just really weird texts,” Yee mentioned. The good friend she texted was not recognized.
Each Kobayashi’s mother and her sister additionally mentioned the texts didn’t sound like her, and questioned if she truly despatched them.
After Kobayashi missed her flight, “everything started getting fuzzy” in her contact with household, mentioned her aunt Larie Pidgeon, who was supposed to fulfill her niece in New York.
In a single message despatched early Monday, Kobayashi instructed Pidgeon she bought sidetracked on her journey as a result of a “very intense spiritual awakening,” the involved relative instructed KITV.
In one other message, she apologizes for “craziness” and mentioned she was “definitely intercepted.”
The household filed a police report with the LAPD and LAX authorities, in addition to the FBI, Pidgeon mentioned.
“This is so unlike Hannah, she’s very responsible. I mean, she was looking forward to the event so much. She had a hotel room booked that was a couple thousand dollars, the tickets for the event was a couple of hundred dollars,” she lamented.
“We just wanted to get the word out as soon as possible, because the more time that passes, the less we know what happens,” mentioned Yee.
“Anything could happen.”
As of Friday morning, the household had not been in a position to find Kobayashi’s telephone. All their calls go on to voicemail, they mentioned.
When requested if she had a message for Kobayashi, her aunt grew to become emotional, KITV mentioned.
“We will not stop until we find you, you have so many family, you have so many friends who love you so, so, so much … If you’re feeling scared or if you feel alone, you are not. We are with you,” she instructed the outlet.
Hannah Kobayashi is described as 5 ft 10 inches tall and about 140 kilos. She has brown hair and brown eyes, and is fair-skinned with freckles.
