CA HANNAH KOBAYASHI: Missing from Los Angeles, CA - 8 Nov 2024 - Age 30 *Found Safe*

Maui woman reported missing while traveling, family seeks help finding her

30-year-old Ha'iku resident Hannah Kobayashi was reportedly last seen at the Los Angeles International Airport nearly a week ago.

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Maui woman reported missing while traveling, family seeks help finding her​

Loved ones of Ha'iku resident Hannah Kobayashi are trying tirelessly to find her after she reportedly disappeared while traveling to the mainland.

"We're just trying to not be paralyzed, in a way, not think of the worst," Kobayashi's aunt Larie Pidgeon said.

The 30-year-old was reportedly last seen at the Los Angeles International Airport nearly a week ago.

Pidgeon said Kobayashi had a layover in Los Angeles last Friday on her way to New York for a concert and a photography job, as well as to visit Pidgeon’s sister.

A friend of Kobayashi’s just so happened to be traveling on the same flights as her, Pidgeon added, and last saw her at LAX.

But then Kobayashi missed the flight to New York, which was one of the last of the night.

"That's when everything started getting fuzzy and we're starting to lose contact with her," Pidgeon explained.

A screenshot of messages Pidgeon said Kobayashi sent to the aunt in New York mentioned, "I just finished a very intense spiritual awakening."

Another text apologized for "craziness," adding afterward "was definitely intercepted."

According to Pidgeon, Kobayashi's last text was sent on the same day to her roommate, in which she mentions feeling scared, and that someone might be trying to steal her money and identity.

Since then, relatives have been having trouble getting in touch with her, and her phone appears to be unreachable.

"It (Kobayashi's phone) was pinging in the LAX airport and it no longer... it goes straight to voicemail," Pidgeon said.

"It didn't move from LAX airport so that is where we know that she last was."


MEDIA - HANNAH KOBAYASHI: Missing from Los Angeles, CA - 8 Nov 2024 - Age 30

 

[Guess Who]

Confirmed as I had guessed that her bags went on to NY and she was hanging around until they got back to LA. Nearly immediately after she received her bags, she was off to Mexico. Voluntarily. She had also mentioned the desire to live off grid to her family and friends prior. Her family has known this info but decided to control the narrative that she was possible trafficked or going unwillingly and setting up a gfm and saying LAPD was doing nothing when they were being briefed. She was in Mexico when the story blew up so she possibly has no idea that all of this happened if she is indeed, living incommunicado.

 

[Guess Who]

This whole case is odd. With the new (to us) information her dad's suicide really sticks out to me. They had more info all along.

If she really is living off grid, there is a very real possibility she knows nothing of any of this happening.

 

[Guess Who]

It seems that this is also not her first time she has done something like this. Which totally contradicts the family's claim of her always staying in touch and has never done anything like this. I am beginning to see why she booked it and misled them. I am now wondering if she was afraid her aunt in NY was trying to stage some kind of intervention with her.

Law enforcement sources also told NBC Los Angeles' Investigative Reporter Eric Leonard that this is not the first time Kobayashi has gone missing as there have been other incidents previously. The sources did not elaborate on when or where those occurred.

Hannah Kobayashi spotted crossing into Mexico on foot – NBC Los Angeles

 

[Kimster]

No, but she didn't help either. She did send some very strange messages. It's true that she didn't make it look like an abduction, but she could have said "leave me alone" or "I need some time/space" and we wouldn't be here.

That’s what I was thinking. I wasn’t thinking she was pretending to be kidnapped.

 

[Kimster]

Did I read somewhere in this thread that her and her dad were not that close? I just don’t understand why he committed suicide? That’s really strange. I think that’s what made this case go off the rails. At least it was for me.

 

[Guess Who]

Did I read somewhere in this thread that her and her dad were not that close? I just don’t understand why he committed suicide? That’s really strange. I think that’s what made this case go off the rails. At least it was for me.

His own words were "estranged". I think he was being torn by her actions and/or the rest of the family's actions. This seems to be about the same time they possibly all found out she went willingly into Mexico and that was against the family's narrative that she was being trafficked or kidnapped. They knew at this point but still were stating false claims in public.

 

[Kimster]

His own words were "estranged". I think he was being torn by her actions and/or the rest of the family's actions. This seems to be about the same time they possibly all found out she went willingly into Mexico and that was against the family's narrative that she was being trafficked or kidnapped. They knew at this point but still were stating false claims in public.

I’m wondering if her dad had his own issues and that might’ve caused some of the estrangement between them.

 

[Guess Who]

I’m wondering if her dad had his own issues and that might’ve caused some of the estrangement between them.

Could very well be and/or her going "missing" prior and him giving her the space she desired.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Anyone would have a hard time convincing me she didn't have a burner phone or something else or is entirely disconnected from all. Maybe the things she wanted to bail on but I'd almost bet not from everyone and everything.

Did she take a wad of cash with her? With someone?

I haven't been to MX in some years but I went like 12 years in a row. Never ever used a credit card and one year when we actually ran short of cash which never happened, I had a he77 of a time accessing a credit card to get more. Might depend on the area but only with help from a local and several different routes and attempts I finally reached my card company and I am not kidding, went through so many hoops and finally had to answer like 20 questions to prove who I was, from addresses I could barely remember in my past to other hard questions.

I'm just saying she is not without cash or using cards or with someone.

Don't get me wrong, you can use a card there very easily and people I know who have to purchase (getting cash was another story) had fraudulent charges when they got home. So I never used one when we went.

But that's some years ago and different area. I'm just saying unless she's well familiar with it and the area she is in, and is savvy, she's got help.

I'm sure someone could like fly into Mexico City and have easy bank access and understanding these days but she walked across the border. There's a lot of the story missing here.

And I agree that her dad's suicide stands out, big time.

In other cases, like the Carly was it Russell one, we come to see the parents so stupid, enabling, spoiling, and who never see a thing and believe every bit of her tales, etc. Probably also controlling to a point and they can't see straight and the "child" (these are adults) is everything. Blinders on totally. You name it.

I don't know a thing about this girl nor her parents just what i've seen but her dad is dead. It may not be her fault but somehow I doubt she has no connection at all and knew of it and did not reach out or come back. if you run away you are going to be watching and worried whether someone will find you imo or what is being said. In most cases. Jmo.

WHAT sent dad over the edge? Just logically you'd never do that until you knew that child was safe or found imo so there's more here. Imo. Butt that's just thinking logically when someone who suicides probably isn't.

I don't know . I just know I think little of her and this kind of stunt and such cases are maddening. You want to go off on your own, can't get out of family clutches? Well then grow up say you are a legal adult, support yourself and say I'm leaving, I'll be fine and no, I want no contact and you are never going to hear from me again, etc. Like it or not. It's just so childish, irresponsible, immature. Or attention seeking.......

 

[Tresir]

What is wrong with people? Continuing to donate. SMDH.

Just read the one article and as expected, yeah, she's done nothing wrong... I beg to differ but pretty much figured not much would result for her even due to her lies and worrying her family.

30 years old and going to a NY museum because she aspired to be an artist and photographer. Okayyyyy..... Doesn't sound like much of a realistic adult. I'd guess she'll be back eventually as she doesn't sound like someone who can adult imo. How is she going to support herself in MX. I alternate between she was under too much control and that she was spoiled rotten. I don't know a lot of the background story. And it's probably both.
I will say, and it's harsh and I hate psychobabble and analyzing but there's clear instability with her, and was with her dad, and the family's denial, and even attempt to desperately "spin" things, I hope help is sought.

She became the story of the week or two. Now she's famous as she likely wanted to be.

I came into this late but heard plenty on Gray the other night. I'm glad it's not a case I am going to have to stick out for a long time as not adding new ones here.

She was simply the flavor of the week and I really hope she's happy. Or two weeks. I guess she'll have to find some at a distance and private way to say her goodbyes to her dad.

I am not a bit surprised but am pretty disgusted. NOT even his death brought her forward did it...

You know me and that I am talking to the case more than just replying just to you.

So what's the financial thing here. I heard a lot of hints about such, also on Gray and have seen them here as well.

Marriages, green cards.

I won't even tough on the human trafficking so many jumped to, etc. Not here but out there, even mentioned in the one article.

I do think there is something really wrong in the family dynamics here but not that interested in knowing what it is, I mean dad's suicide alone says something, not sure what, don'tr really want to know. Sad and tragic. Imo we have another selfish brat who can't cope or adult but amazingly she can well enough to plan all of this.

I don't even know if she lived at home or had a steady income. I'm assuming answers to both that seem likely. I did not look at the case even though some had it on but ran into it eventually by accident.

Certain things though were obvious and one right now is this is not someone who is going to make it with no help IF she ever is all alone in Mexico.

I think or suspect too there's a bit more to the story but we aren't going to hear it from officials. As in anyone that she was seen with, was with, is with, etc. is not in trouble if she is willing. She is a fricking 30 year old, about the age most start to really get their sh*t together. She's a bit behind. Family had a fit about LE saying she was 23... Well...

Anyhow, I guess it's clear these kinds of cases irritate me. When intentional. The sheer waste of resources, the selfishness, when there are REAL missing or murdered people out there.

I am glad she's likely alive, would be for anyone. And good luck to her. Hope to never hear of her again after this is finished. Unless of course she was looking for her name to be known and will use it, not that unusual these days either, and totally sickening.

Bit of a rant I guess. So I am stopping. Haven't poured a cup of coffee yet. Woke up to seeing this.

All jmo.

The most famous case we had was the canoe man who faked an accident and disappeared. His wife claimed his life insurance and then went to South America and joined him. That's if i am remembering it correctly. We also had an MP who faked his suicide in Australia leaving his clothes and shoes on a beach with footprints into the sea but none coming out. Michael Stonehouse. For years after, if someone disappeared it was called "doing a Stonehouse"

 

[Guess Who]

That’s what I was thinking. I wasn’t thinking she was pretending to be kidnapped.

To be fair, we don't know if she didn't tell them to leave her alone or not. She very well might have, they refused and the rest is history.

 

[GrandmaBear]

The most famous case we had was the canoe man who faked an accident and disappeared. His wife claimed his life insurance and then went to South America and joined him. That's if i am remembering it correctly. We also had an MP who faked his suicide in Australia leaving his clothes and shoes on a beach with footprints into the sea but none coming out. Michael Stonehouse. For years after, if someone disappeared it was called "doing a Stonehouse"

Lol the part about "doing a Stonehouse. We've had a few re faked deaths. One even found a guy they killed instead to be his body. His wife knew. Life insurance.

Just recently the guy who supposedly drowned in a WI lake but went to somewhere in Russia or a country close by with some woman he had met online.

There are others.

But here, she didn't fake her death. Very similar of course, get everyone worried, fake story, saying things to worry.

Where was that other one, wasn't that Australia where the woman was about to probably be arrested, disappeared, and they found her foot eventually washed up so determined it to be suicide. I don't buy that one to this day... VERY skeptical.

Cases like these though, I'd say often they are not getting their way, are seeking attention, or often it's pressure of parents, grades, expectations, or maybe parents are trying to get them to stand on their own two feet and trying to cut them off, put some rules down, etc. and it's a further desperate act to get them to continue supporting them, that kind of thing.

In both types of cases though it speaks to the person doing it in that they can't just be honest, be an adult, face the hard things, say I'm leaving and you can't stop me, I'm an adult, this is how I feel and this is why. The ones leaving spouses or committing life insurance fraud or whose wife knows etc. are a bit different, I'd agree.

Both types of cases though are so very immature, self centered, and so on. Or to try to escape trouble. etc. Not a moral adult or an adult at all of any kind. Jmo.

What is an MP? That one rings a distant bell....

 

[Guess Who]

I think all of the texts to the aunt were gaslighting her about not having money, etc.. I think she already had a plan to scoot on to Mexico and I now think the aunt might have known this, too and Hannah was buying time to get her bags back. She had a flight to LA that was already paid for so why not take advantage of that to fulfill a different plan and just nix the NY leg. She might not have realized until too late that her bags were already on the plane headed to NY.

 

[GrandmaBear]

The aunt was pretty vocal and overinvolved wasn't she or so it seemed to me? Again, I came into it late. In denial, twisting the facts.

And yeah, it sounds to me like she got money for tickets and a trip based on a real plan they probably bought into, if she just goes to the museum in NY, she wants to be an artist and photographer, at least she's showing interest in something and motivation is what it all sounds like to me. I might be reading into it wrongly but that's what my perception is, a 30 year old that needed to be kicked onto her own two feet who played them or some of them.

I'd seriously doubt she's on her own, or would manage for long if she is. I don't buy that she is. But again, don't know all the stuff, know enough, but not on FB, etc.

also don't know what sent dad over the edge but what a result.

i wonder if she feels it's been worth it.

 

[Tresir]

Did I read somewhere in this thread that her and her dad were not that close? I just don’t understand why he committed suicide? That’s really strange. I think that’s what made this case go off the rails. At least it was for me.

He had been estranged from her, from what i had seen. But it is difficult to know what was true in all this.

 

[Tresir]

Lol the part about "doing a Stonehouse. We've had a few re faked deaths. One even found a guy they killed instead to be his body. His wife knew. Life insurance.

Just recently the guy who supposedly drowned in a WI lake but went to somewhere in Russia or a country close by with some woman he had met online.

There are others.

But here, she didn't fake her death. Very similar of course, get everyone worried, fake story, saying things to worry.

Where was that other one, wasn't that Australia where the woman was about to probably be arrested, disappeared, and they found her foot eventually washed up so determined it to be suicide. I don't buy that one to this day... VERY skeptical.

Cases like these though, I'd say often they are not getting their way, are seeking attention, or often it's pressure of parents, grades, expectations, or maybe parents are trying to get them to stand on their own two feet and trying to cut them off, put some rules down, etc. and it's a further desperate act to get them to continue supporting them, that kind of thing.

In both types of cases though it speaks to the person doing it in that they can't just be honest, be an adult, face the hard things, say I'm leaving and you can't stop me, I'm an adult, this is how I feel and this is why. The ones leaving spouses or committing life insurance fraud or whose wife knows etc. are a bit different, I'd agree.

Both types of cases though are so very immature, self centered, and so on. Or to try to escape trouble. etc. Not a moral adult or an adult at all of any kind. Jmo.

What is an MP? That one rings a distant bell....

Member of Parliament. His name was John Stonehouse and it was in Miami he faked his death, not Australia LOL. He has a wiki page.

John Stonehouse - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[GrandmaBear]

I doubt he reached her since LE has come right out and said she did not have her phone after the airport. And if she had some burner phone, would he know of it? But something was wrong here clearly, between dad and her or more. I would guess anyhow.

And yeah, it sent it a bit sideways. I'd think the most burning desire would be to find and save her as a parent but he killed himself. I don't even have an opinion as to why but something was clearly wrong here with one or a few and likely issues we are not aware of, at least I'm not.

And it IS definitely difficult to know what's true and try to read between the lines as well.

All I know is she faked things and went missing and her dad is dead now. Sent some texts that appear to be fact before going missing. Not much more. Wanting to disconnect appears to be true. From LE.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Member of Parliament. His name was John Stonehouse and it was in Miami he faked his death, not Australia LOL. He has a wiki page.

John Stonehouse - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Oh so he did it on our shores. Lol.

No time to read his wiki page at the moment. Have to try to drag myself to the chiro in a bit. Hour or so but so very sore. Just telling self to get dressed, etc,

I have heard of the case, clearly it made news and headlines and talk. Just not fresh on it.

 

[Tresir]

Oh so he did it on our shores. Lol.

No time to read his wiki page at the moment. Have to try to drag myself to the chiro in a bit. Hour or so but so very sore. Just telling self to get dressed, etc,

I have heard of the case, clearly it made news and headlines and talk. Just not fresh on it.

It was a long time ago. Have you taken any pain medication? Where is it most sore? Hope the chiro helps.

 

[GrandmaBear]

It was a long time ago. Have you taken any pain medication? Where is it most sore? Hope the chiro helps.

Started with upper back and shoulder blade area and neck. Today I would say same but getting to mid to upper back also now. Have a bruise on arm from where customer grabbed hold of me I think, pretty sure that's what it is from. Nothing else hurts too much although headache here and there probably related to neck and back. Nothing but Ibuprofen, all I have. Pretty sure going to be fine but just sore as sh*t. Hoping to go in tomorrow and make it through. I might be dreaming though. Believe me though when I say I'd better because they are busy and not real happy. Well it isn't anything I wanted either, Last thing I needed.

Yeah, i know it was long ago but I'm old and case definitely rings bells. Know it as a famous one at least, the footprints definitely ring bells. Lol.