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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f76af1a2471a11d1a48bcc9960f3aa78" style="color:#322626;font-size:14px"><strong>Missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi, 30, spotted crossing into Mexico before father killed himself trying to find her</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b3fc43dbde1acc58be82acf6517a3e9f" style="color:#322626;font-size:14px"><strong>Investigators claim security footage from the border near Tijuana, about 145 miles from LAX, shows her alive between November 12 and 13 </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11ab1b03c03d9cb3c4b14fabb0af619a" style="color:#322626;font-size:14px"><strong>The sighting happened a day after she disappeared, 11 days before her father who had flown in from Hawaii to search for his daughter, took his own life </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f4ebe25fc3b967c4fcb97fc0a95b75be" style="color:#322626;font-size:14px"><strong>Hannah Kobayashi fled to Mexico to disconnect from the world, according to law enforcement, who are now categorizing her as a &#8216;voluntary missing person&#8217; </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ffbbc0c8f1b02ccf5305216a65fe63e5" style="color:#322626;font-size:14px"><strong>Footage viewed by police on Sunday &#8216;clearly shows Hannah Kobayashi crossing the border on foot,<strong>&#8216;</strong> the LAPD said on Monday </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4831d8576e783015287653f513b24d28" style="color:#322626;font-size:14px"><strong>There is no evidence of human trafficking or foul play, Kobayashi seemed to want a less complicated life </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5e3567592c269c43353a6fef3294bee7" style="color:#322626;font-size:14px"><strong>Before departing Maui, Kobayashi had expressed a desire to step away from modern connectivity,&#8217; investigators said</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1e89584e9523e0195ae927b28c8376a3" style="color:#322626;font-size:14px"><strong>Her dad Ryan Kobayashi spent nearly two weeks searching for his missing daughter before he took his own life </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Hannah Kobayashi, 30, from Hawaii went missing early November. She was spotted entering Mexico in footage recorded Nov 13. &#8216;There is no evidence of human trafficking or foul play. She seemed to want a less complicated life&#8217; &#8211; <strong>LAPD. <strong>She&#8217;s now categorized as a &#8216;voluntary missing person&#8217;</strong> </strong> </strong></p>



<p>A woman from Hawaii initially believed to have vanished under mysterious circumstances in Los Angeles may not have been the victim of foul play after all. It is now believed that 30-year-old Hannah Kobayashi voluntarily fled to Mexico &#8216;to disconnect from the world,&#8217; according to law enforcement, who are now categorizing her as a &#8216;voluntary missing person&#8217;.<br>Investigators claim security footage recorded at the border near Tijuana, about 145 miles from Los Angeles Airport, [LAX], shows Kobayashi alive between November 12 and 13, about a day after she vanished, 11 days before her father took his own life on November 30. <br>Footage viewed by police on Sunday &#8216;clearly shows Hannah Kobayashi&#8217; crossing the border on foot, the LAPD said on Monday.<br>The 30-year-old aspiring photographer disappeared from the streets of downtown Los Angeles after missing a connecting flight from her native Maui to the Big Apple on November 8. <br>Authorities released new details of their investigation, citing &#8216;witness interviews, reviewed video surveillance&#8217; and collaboration with local law enforcement supporting their version of her whereabouts. <br>According to investigators, Kobayashi &#8216;knowingly departed&#8217; LAX after checking her bag to her connecting flight to New York from Maui. There is nothing to show that she was on that flight. <br>On November 10 and again on November 11, she was at Union Station. The last time she showed her passport while buying a bus ticket to the border with Mexico. The next morning, she took the bus to San Ysidro, California, before crossing the border.<br>The LAPD said there is no evidence of human trafficking or foul play and noted that Kobayashi seemed to want a less complicated life.<br>&#8216;The investigators noted that before departing Maui, Kobayashi expressed a desire to step away from modern connectivity,&#8217; the police department said in a statement.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Los Angeles police announced that they have ceased the search for the 30-year-old woman. They have now classified her disappearance as &#8216;voluntary&#8217; in an attempt to respect &#8216;her right to privacy&#8217;</strong></p>



<p>Therefore, they are now classifying her disappearance as &#8216;voluntary&#8217; in an attempt to respect &#8216;her right to privacy&#8217;.<br>&#8216;The LAPD remains mindful of privacy concerns while ensuring all investigative actions are conducted within the bounds of legal and ethical standards,&#8217; the statement added.<br>Police say they will not further their investigation of Kobayashi to Mexico but will be notified if she returns to America and they encourage her to contact police or the American Embassy in Mexico to &#8216;confirm her well being&#8217;. <br>Her family is yet to comment on the information indicating Hannah could have fled south for the Mexican border.<br>Sources told <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/hannah-kobayashi-missing-woman-lax-hawaii/3572376/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Los Angeles</a> that they do not suspect any foul play in her disappearance at this time.<br>One even made a bold suggestion: &#8216;She&#8217;s an adult and she can choose to be missing.&#8217; <br>The Los Angeles PD most recently said they thought Kobayashi &#8216;intentionally&#8217; missed her flight to New York City, despite the counter from her family that she would never do that.<br>Her father Ryan Kobayashi, a 58-year-old photographer flew in from Hawaii to join the search of his daughter. He spent 13 days searching LA, including Skid Row, where homeless people and drug addicts live in a squalid tent city, before taking his own life. <br>He had earlier told CNN: ‘Hannah loved to travel. She loved photography, art, music. I wasn’t too close with her . . . growing up.’</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Abduction or voluntary seclusion?: Ryan Kobayashi flew in from his home in Hawaii to participate in the search for his daughter. Hannah&#8217;s sister, Sydni, hit out at the claims, saying she would have revealed herself following the death of their father.</strong></p>



<p>She had earlier sent a friend a text message saying she had a &#8216;spiritual awakening&#8217; and was later seen in the company of a mystery man on November 11.<br>The Kobayashi family has repeatedly said she did not seem to be acting like her normal self &#8211; with her sister, Sydni, even suggesting that Hannah&#8217;s text messages &#8216;feel like someone was controlling her.&#8217;<br>But at a Board of Police Commissioners meeting on November 26, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said &#8216;the investigation determined&#8217; that Hannah&#8217;s missed connection &#8216;was intentional.&#8217;<br>&#8216;On November 15, our missing persons unit assumed investigative responsibility,&#8217; he said.<br>&#8216;Detectives have been diligently reviewing video surveillance and employing various investigative techniques to locate Hannah, while her family has continued their personal search efforts.&#8217; </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Hawaii resident Ryan Kobayashi, seen [center], comforting his other daughter, spent nearly two weeks searching for his missing daughter Hannah in Los Angeles before he took his own life on Nov. 29</strong></p>



<p>He went on to say that the LAPD remains &#8216;committed to locating Hannah and supporting the family as they navigate their way through this tragedy,&#8217; especially following the death of Hannah&#8217;s father.<br>Ryan Kobayashi, who had traveled to Los Angeles to look for his daughter, died by suicide on Nov. 24, two weeks after his daughter disappeared, according to the L.A. County Medical Examiner.<br>His cause of death was multiple blunt force traumatic injuries<br>The family have said the police chief never told them about evidence suggesting that Hannah &#8216;intentionally&#8217; missed her flight, with her sister Sydni suggesting there was no evidence.<br><a href="https://people.com/missing-hawaii-woman-hannah-kobayashi-intentionally-missed-flight-say-police-8753541" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">PEOPLE reports </a>Sydni claiming in a statement posted on social media that the family was &#8216;unaware of the alleged findings presented at the Los Angeles Police Commission meeting until multiple videos of the meeting were sent to us by multiple citizens.&#8217;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Sydni Kobayashi who is convinced her Hannah [photo], wouldn&#8217;t have ran away, describes her sister as &#8216;an amazing and beautiful person&#8217;</strong> </p>



<p>&#8216;These alleged findings have yet to be relayed to my mother and I directly from the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department or any detective involved in Hannah&#8217;s case.&#8217;<br>She and her mother, Brandi Yee, also claimed that certain details McDonnell shared about the case at the meeting were inaccurate.<br>&#8216;Specific facts contained in that report were inaccurate, such as Hannah&#8217;s age. Hannah is 30 years old, not 23. Also, Hannah was reported missing to law enforcement on November 11th, not November 13th, as stated by the LAPD chief.<br>&#8216;The lack of communication surrounding some important details has left us feeling excluded from potentially crucial developments,&#8217; Sydni argued.<br>&#8216;However, we do remain hopeful and optimistic that the Los Angeles Police Department is doing everything in their power to assist us in locating Hannah. <br>Sydni also hit out at the report <a href="https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/12/01/hannah-kobayashi-family-disappointed-frustrated-over-lapds-comments-about-her-disappearance/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">to Hawaii News Now</a>, saying the police chief &#8216;kind of seems to state it [as if] she went out and about to do her own thing,&#8217; which may discourage people from searching for her.<br>&#8216;I don&#8217;t want to bash the LAPD. I don&#8217;t want to discredit them if they are doing what they are doing,&#8217; she said. &#8216;But at this time, it makes us very confused as to where they are at.&#8217;<br>Sydni also said she continues to believe Hannah is in danger, noting that even if her sister decided to go off-grid, she would have reached out after her father &#8211; who spent nearly two weeks looking for her &#8211; committed suicide.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>This still from security camera footage released by LAPD shows the missing woman, Hannah Kobayashi, disembarking a plane at LAX just before 10pm on Nov 8. Her family said the police chief &#8216;kind of seems to state it [as if] she went out and about to do her own thing,&#8217; which may discourage people from searching for her8</strong></p>



<p>&#8216;With my father&#8217;s passing, with it being everywhere, in her right state of mind, she would have never thought to not reach out to anybody,&#8217; Sydni said.<br>She had previously shared similar sentiments <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/missing/sydni-hannah-kobayashi/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">with NewsNation</a>, that Hannah may have been taken out of California: &#8216;Intuitively knowing her and being so close to her my entire life, I just know this is absolutely not like her.&#8217;<br>Sydni is convinced Hannah wouldn&#8217;t have ran away and was &#8216;an amazing and beautiful person.&#8217;<br>Kobayashi was caught on security camera footage disembarking a plane at LAX just before 10pm on November 8. <br>She was seen wearing a black hoodie and colorful sweatpants as she walked through LAX while wearing a pair of headphones. <br>Her ex-boyfriend was also onboard that flight, after booking flights for the two of them before they split up. <br>She was due to take a connecting flight at 11pm, however she never made it, while her ex continued to New York. He is now cooperating with police.<br>The following day, Kobayashi was spotted at The Grove shopping mall between midday and 3pm. She spent a considerable amount of time at Taschen Books, where she stopped to charge her phone.<br>At 2:43 she snapped a picture and sent it to her aunt, before returning to the airport where she is believed to have spent the night. In a YouTube video outside of an event in Los Angeles on November 10, </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Hannah Kobayashi&#8217;s family has said she was acting suspiciously before and after her disappearance</strong></p>



<p>Hannah could also be seen wearing the same clothing. She was spotted at a Nike event featuring LeBron James in LA, where she was wearing the same dark hoodie and headphones she wore at the airport, at around 3:30pm. Kobayashi also shared a post on her Instagram from the event with an eye emoji as the caption.<br>She was next spotted talking to a ticketing agent at LAX at around 5pm.<br>That same day, a missing-persons report was filed by her family amid what they described as uncharacteristic correspondence from Kobayashi. <br>The family explained that Kobayashi sent some cryptic text messages and Venmo payments to people they didn&#8217;t recognize before and after her disappearance.<br>One payment was sent at 6:25pm on November 9 to a person named Veronica Almendarez for an unknown amount, with the description of the payment only showing a drawn bow and arrow emoji. <br>The second was made less than an hour later to someone called Jonathan Taylor, also for an undisclosed amount, with the description only saying: &#8216;Reading.&#8217; </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>There is evidence that Hannah Kobayashi sent two people money on Venmo after missing her flight to from LAX to New York in mid-November </strong></p>



<p>The recipients&#8217; relationship with Hannah is not currently known, but the missing woman&#8217;s family told <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/12973366/missing-hannah-kobayashis-family-venmo-payments-scam/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the Sun </a>that the LAPD is investigating the matter. <br>Hannah had also sent a series of eerie texts to her loved ones, claiming she had recently undergone a &#8216;spiritual awakening,&#8217; after she was due to meet family in New York. <br>In another, she claimed: &#8216;Deep Hackers wiped my identity, stole all of my funds, &; have had me on a mind f**k since Friday.&#8217;<br>A third text message to a friend said she was &#8216;tricked pretty much into giving away all my funds for someone I thought I love.&#8217; <br>A missing-persons poster also notes: &#8216;Prior to going missing, [Kobayashi] sent a message on November 10, mentioning feeling scared, and that someone might be <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14101203/family-missing-hawaii-woman-hannah-kobayashi-trouble-signs.html">trying to steal her money and identity</a>. She hasn&#8217;t been heard from since.&#8217;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>One friends received strange texts from Hannah Kobayashi&#8217;s phone &#8211; indicating that she may be in trouble</strong></p>



<p>The next day, November 11, Kobayashi was spotted boarding an LAX Metro C line at Aviation/Century Station.<br>She got on board at 9:02pm, before transferring to a different train at the Rosa Parks Station. <br>Kobayashi was finally seen leaving the Metro Pico Station with the unidentified person at 10:03pm <br>The family also noted that the young artist&#8217;s phone has been off since November 11 and her last pinned location was at the Los Angeles Airport.</p>

Missing Hawaii woman, Hannah Kobayashi, was spotted crossing into Mexico before her dad killed himself trying to find her – Cops classify case as ‘voluntary missing person’, but family disputes ‘evidence’
