Hannah Kobayashi: Family searches for woman who went missing in LA

(NewsNation) — Family members of Maui pistillate Hannah Kobayashi are successful Los Angeles to hunt for her aft the 31-year-old went missing connected a travel to California earlier this month.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department's Missing Persons Unit, Kobayashi is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, and weighs astir 140 pounds. She has brownish hairsbreadth and eyes, and just tegument with freckles, arsenic good arsenic a tattoo that says "knife" connected her forearm.

Kobayashi's household past heard from her connected Nov. 11, erstwhile she started sending them "alarming" substance messages, NewsNation section affiliate KTLA reported.

What is known astir Hannah Kobayashi's disappearance

KTLA wrote that Kobayashi, connected Nov. 8, missed a connecting formation from Los Angeles to New York City, wherever she was readying to sojourn family.

The time after, Kobayashi decided to spell to The Grove buying halfway for a two-day Lebron James event, which she posted astir connected Instagram.

While she was astatine The Grove connected Nov. 9, Kobayashi was seen by employees astatine the Taschen bookstore, Larie Pidgeon, Kobayashi's aunt, told USA Today.

On Nov. 11, according to the Los Angeles Times, Kobayashi went backmost to Los Angeles International Airport, though without getting onboard a flight. Family members confirmed to KTLA that they besides saw footage of Kobayashi adjacent the Pico Metro Station successful downtown Los Angeles.

“I miss her,” Kobayashi's begetter Ryan said successful an interrogation with KTLA. “Just privation her to cognize that, and conscionable privation her to scope retired — anything.”

Kobayashi sent 'strange' substance messages, household says

Pidgeon said it was erstwhile Kobayashi went backmost to the airdrome that she started sending the household "alarming" substance messages.

“She mentioned feeling scared, and that idiosyncratic mightiness beryllium trying to bargain her wealth and identity,” her aunt said to KTLA. “Strange, cryptic messages — things astir the matrix, it was truthful dissimilar her. And past each of a sudden, nary much communication.”

Kobayashi's sister started a GoFundMe to assistance with hunt efforts.