Lacking Hawaii lady Hannah Kobayashi’s circle of relatives will proceed on the lookout for the 30-year-old regardless of police assertions that the lady, who has now not been heard from by means of circle of relatives or pals for 21 days, crossed the border into Mexico of her personal accord.
On Monday, Los Angeles Police Division Leader Jim McDonnell mentioned surveillance photos and different proof confirmed Kobayashi getting into Mexico on foot, by myself and sporting baggage, on the San Ysidro port of access on Nov. 12.Â
Larie Pidgeon, Kobayashi’s aunt, who has acted as a circle of relatives spokesperson all the way through their three-week seek, mentioned her “concern for Hannah has now not lessened.”Â
“Hannah by no means discussed any plans to go back and forth to Mexico, and no person in her lifestyles knew she supposed to head there,” she wrote in a remark to Fox Information Virtual on Tuesday. “What alarms me much more is her whole disconnection from her telephone, her social media and her international – this isn’t who she is.”
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“I will be able to’t shake the remaining messages she despatched family and friends, which I have replayed in my thoughts one thousand occasions,” she persisted. “I have attempted to make sense of it however nonetheless can not.”
There was once no proof that she was once “being trafficked or [was] the sufferer of foul play,” McDonnell mentioned.
“We urge Ms. Kobayashi to touch her circle of relatives, regulation enforcement or staff on the U.S. Embassy to tell us that you are protected,” he mentioned. “She has a proper to her privateness and we recognize her alternatives, however we additionally perceive the fear her family members really feel for her. A easy message may reassure those that care about her.”
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Kobayashi was once scheduled to take a connecting flight to New York on Nov. 8, with a 42-minute layover at 11 a.m., however didn’t board a flight regardless of an in depth itinerary and a booked resort room in New York Town. Her circle of relatives continues to be not sure why.
Previous this week, McDonnell mentioned detectives decided that Kobayashi “deliberately” ignored her flight, an statement that her circle of relatives disputed.Â
Pictures from the L.A. Union Station acquired by means of Fox 11 displays Kobayashi pulling a crimson suitcase and dressed in a sweatsuit, buying a bus price tag to the southern border on Nov. 11.
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Prior to now, Pidgeon informed Fox Information Virtual that family and friends won a flurry of atypical textual content messages from Kobayashi after her ignored flight that did not fit her same old cadence. She texted a chum that she “were given tricked into just about making a gift of all my budget” and that she was once tricked “for anyone I assumed I cherished.”
“She [wrote she] was once having a religious awakening, that she was once involved in regards to the matrix. It was once simply probably the most atypical textual content messages,” Pidgeon in the past mentioned. “And it went from, ‘Hello, I will be able to’t wait to peer you guys. Love you. The entirety’s nice.'”
Pidgeon mentioned that, even supposing the LAPD considers the case closed, her circle of relatives’s seek is “some distance from over,” telling Fox Information Virtual that they’re looking to “formulate a plan this is protected and efficient” to touch her in Mexico.Â
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“I can now not prevent till I will be able to verify, face-to-face, that she is protected and making those choices of her personal accord, [and]… till I do know my niece is protected… and in a just right psychological state,” she wrote, including that the circle of relatives has employed a personal investigator to assist.
Even if she thanked the police for his or her “exhausting paintings and assets they have got devoted tirelessly to this seek,” the lacking lady’s aunt additionally mentioned the circle of relatives was once now not knowledgeable of the brand new traits till hours earlier than the LAPD’s Monday press convention.
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“I need to be utterly clear: I used to be now not made conscious about this construction till simply hours earlier than their press convention,” she mentioned. “I’ve now not observed the photos myself, however I agree with the LAPD has carried out their due diligence to substantiate it was once her.”
Pidgeon and Kobayashi’s father, Ryan Kobayashi – who was once discovered lifeless of an obvious suicide after leaping from a parking construction on Nov. 24, characterised by means of Pidgeon as “[dying] from a damaged center” – in the past informed Fox Information Virtual that LAPD detectives didn’t touch them till Nov. 22, 11 days after she was once reported lacking by means of her circle of relatives.Â
The LAPD may now not right away be reached for remark.
Kobayashi’s circle of relatives mentioned somebody with data is requested to name the RAD Motion hotline at 619-904-0840.