After the first week of search efforts, Hannah Kobayashi’s family has only received one new detail to help them look for the missing Maui woman in Los Angeles.
Family members said that over the weekend, they learned of a new last-known location for Kobayashi.
The 31-year-old’s family confirmed on Monday that they saw footage of Kobayashi in downtown Los Angeles near the Pico Metro Station recorded on Nov. 11.
Her family says that in this footage, which has not been released to the public, Kobayashi is seen with someone else – and that she did not look well.
“She is not safe, and she is not alone,” said Kobayashi’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon, who traveled from Maui to try to find her niece.
Kobayashi is described as 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighing about 140 pounds and has brown hair and eyes, and fair skin with freckles.
In addition to the fear she carries for her missing niece, Pidgeon told KTLA’s Angeli Kakade that the search itself has been frightening.
“Someone tried to steal my husband’s phone from his hand,” said Pidgeon. “They were screaming, and there were people smoking crack.”
Kobayashi’s family last heard from her on Nov. 10 after she’d missed her connecting flight at LAX.
“I miss her,” said Ryan Kobayashi in an interview with KTLA, hoping to get the message to his daughter. “Just want her to know that, and just want her to reach out – anything.”
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Family members are asking for the community’s help searching for Hannah Kobayashi, 31, of Maui, who missed her connecting LAX flight and hasn’t been seen or heard from since Nov. 10. (Larie Pidgeon)
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Family members are asking for the community’s help searching for Hannah Kobayashi, 31, of Maui, who missed her connecting LAX flight and hasn’t been seen or heard from since Nov. 10. (Larie Pidgeon)
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Family members are asking for the community’s help searching for Hannah Kobayashi, 31, of Maui, who missed her connecting LAX flight and hasn’t been seen or heard from since Nov. 10. (Larie Pidgeon)
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Family members are asking for the community’s help searching for Hannah Kobayashi, 31, of Maui, who missed her connecting LAX flight and hasn’t been seen or heard from since Nov. 10. (Larie Pidgeon)
Kobayashi’s family said she was traveling from Maui to New York City to visit family, but when she missed her connecting flight in Los Angeles at 11 p.m. on Nov. 8, she decided to go to The Grove for a Lebron James event.
When she returned to LAX days later, Pidgeon said that was when she started sending her alarming text messages.
“She mentioned feeling scared, and that someone might be trying to steal her money and identity,” her aunt said. “Strange, cryptic messages – things about the matrix, it was so unlike her. And then all of a sudden, no more communication.”
Pidgeon and other family members have traveled to Los Angeles to post flyers and search for the missing woman, and have started a GoFundMe to ask for help affording hotels and search efforts.
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With each day Kobayashi is missing, her family is begging to keep her name out there.
“If they can print flyers, if they can just help us do the legwork keep her name out there – the longer her name is out there the more she stays relevant,” said Pidgeon.
Los Angeles Police confirmed that a missing person case is still open for Kobayashi, but as of Monday, is not providing any more details.
Kobayashi’s family asks that anyone with information on her whereabouts call Larie Pidgeon at 845-750-3006.
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