@Angie - as a side note, schizophrenia in women does appear into the early 30s. I am not sure that is what is going on here or if she is on some sort of hallucinogens, coupled with some other underlying mental health issue.
@Angie - as a side note, schizophrenia in women does appear into the early 30s. I am not sure that is what is going on here or if she is on some sort of hallucinogens, coupled with some other underlying mental health issue.
The family took down the page dedicated to finding her.
I think the Dad did something to her and that she left to get away from her family. Dad jumped because of either guilt or because he knew something was going to come out about him regarding her.
She intentionally missed her flight and then scheduled to have her luggage rerouted back to her in L.A. This is not the actions of someone that is having a mental break IMHO. That's all logical thinking taking place. I think that she intentionally chose NYC because she knew that from Hawaii that LAX would be the stop over which she knew would be near the Mexican border. I think that she thought her family would think she was in NYC and throw them off her scent.
Agree with you both, @Angie and @Boston - she knows what she is doing. That is not to say she doesn't have something going on mental-health wise, but she has planned this disappearance.
https://people.com/police-answer-key...update-8756406
Alan Hamilton, the L.A. police’s chief of detectives, was asked at the news conference on Monday about an unidentified man whom Hannah had been seen traveling with on public transit.
He said she met this person at the airport.
“We have identified that individual, that individual was cooperative in the investigation,” Hamilton said. “That individual cooperated by allowing himself to be interviewed with his attorney present and family members. He gave a full disclosure of the entire sequence of events.”
“We utilized independent investigative techniques to verify his story, and it fully checked out,” he said.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/05/us-new...rriage-report/“Late yesterday [Sunday, Dec. 1] … we reviewed video surveillance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection which clearly shows Kobayashi crossing the United States border on foot into Mexico,” McDonnell said. “She was alone with her luggage and appeared unharmed.”
Police later clarified that Hannah used the San Ysidro crossing into Tijuana just after noon local time on Nov. 12.
Missing photographer Hannah Kobayashi possibly caught up in ‘scam marriage’ before disappearance: report
Missing photographer Hannah Kobayashi may have been intertwined in an alleged marriage scam with an Argentinian national before her disappearance, according to a shocking report.
Kobayashi, 30, landed at Los Angeles International Aiport on Nov. 8 with her alleged new husband, Alan Cacace, an Argentinian man, and his girlfriend, Marianna, just days before she was seen crossing the border into Mexico, sources told Los Angeles Magazine Wednesday.
The outlet reported that its sources believe the aspiring photographer may have been scammed out of money after allegedly marrying the man in a green card visa scheme gone wrong.
Kobayashi’s mother, Brandi Yee, allegedly discovered immigration documents at her daughter’s home in Hawaii that showed she was working with or in contact with an immigration attorney.
Yee allegedly tried to contact the lawyer, but “that attorney was not cooperative,” one source told the outlet.
It really sounds like her life was a mess.
Boston gets a Christmas toaster for calling it on the Mexican border. Because she was right, and because I know she loves Christmas
I could see her being embarrassed by the scam and not telling anyone about it.
But why go to Mexico?
@Nic - it really does. I think that is why it has piqued the public's interest.
@Angie - same. I don't think anyone knows what is going on, as everything is getting more bizarre with each update.
This is from TMZ, so until it confirmed on mainstream media, we'll leave her as missing.
https://www.tmz.com/2024/12/11/missi...-contact-lapd/Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman who went temporarily missing back in November, has finally gotten in contact with her family.
A member of the family spoke to Hannah today, and she reassured them she is safe.
Okay, I am moving it to Found/No Longer Missing, as other sources are now stating she is no longer missing.
https://people.com/hannah-kobayashi-...y-says-8759962Hannah Kobayashi's family says she has been "found safe" about a month after she walked into Mexico and vanished in what police have called a voluntary disappearance that made headlines around the country.
"We are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been found safe," her sister and mother, Sydni Kobayashi and Brandi Yee, said in a statement to PEOPLE through their attorney, Sara Azari.
@Nic - they really are, which is why they are my go-to most times.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...w/76944337007/
What happened to Hannah Kobayashi? The public - and the police - may never know
I feel like there's no way she didn't know they were looking for her. I feel like if she went missing voluntarily and tax money was used to find her, we are owed an explanation and she should possibly have to pay some of it back. Also, there's the whole dad suicide thing. WTF. I have wondered if there was some past abuse and he felt guilty.
I agree, RBW. She knew what she was doing. Her father's suicide makes everything even weirder.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/missing-h...162612924.html
Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman who was found last week in Mexico, has dashed her family’s hopes of a reunion.
Kobayashi, 31, whose disappearance sparked a police investigation before she was found to have voluntarily left the country, told relatives she did not want to return to her home state, according to her family.
Her sister, Sydni, posted a statement on her Facebook saying that she and her mother have not physically seen Hannah, but have spoken on the phone with her.
“We do not have actual proof of where she is, other than that she is somewhere in Mexico,” her sister wrote, adding that Kobayashi does not want to return home. “The past 31 days have been absolute hell for us, and I feel they will continue to be for a while, even as we try to transition back to some semblance of normalcy.”
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