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Detectives in Los Angeles are missing in action. They’re supposed to be looking for Hannah Kobayashi, who vanished from the LA Airport on November 8. Her family hasn’t heard a word from the LAPD for a full 10 days so they flew in from Hawaii to hold “a rally demanding action.”
Where are the detectives?
The distraught family of Hannah Kobayashi is demanding to know what happened to the detectives supposedly working the case of their missing relative. The 30-year-old Hawaiian photographer missed her connecting flight to New York, then disappeared.
She was supposed to be going on vacation in the Big Apple but seems to have been “left stranded in Los Angeles.” She left the airport the day she arrived.
With her family going frantic, wondering what happened to her, “a series of alarming text messages” were sent from Hannah’s phone.
The texts didn’t seem to match her usual pattern of phrasing, causing the family to think someone else was using her device. The messages themselves were just as concerning. That’s when they got the detectives involved.
The missing person’s report was filed the very next day after she missed her flight. They relate “they hadn’t heard anything from officials until they held a rally in the streets of LA on Thursday.” That finally got some activity.
Embarrassed detectives “have reached out to family members.” Hannah’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon, insists they “want them to take it a bit more seriously.”
Cops just starting
The aunt explains that the family is a whole week ahead of the detectives with their own investigation. “We think they realize we’re not going away and we’re going to be really loud. We’re going to do something until they do something.”
Now that the whole community is up in arms about the lapse, Ms. Pidgeon thinks “now they are beginning the process of what we began six days ago.”
The rally was held in a venue “a block from Kobayashi’s last known location” in downtown LA. On her way through LAX to visit another aunt in New York, “surveillance footage shows her arriving in LA, but she missed her connecting flight 42 minutes later.”
That’s about as far as detectives took it. That’s also about when the weird texts started coming in. The first was to a friend, claiming she “got tricked into pretty much giving away all my funds.”
Another message said she was supposedly fooled by “someone I thought I loved.” That’s not a lot of help. “Deep Hackers wiped my identity, stole all of my funds, & have had me on a mind f–k since Friday,” another message states. None of them sound like they were sent legitimately by her.
Detectives did find more video footage which shows “Kobayashi at the Grove shopping center in the Fairfax District of LA on November 9 and November 10, as well as video of her returning to LAX, but not getting on a flight on November 11.” After that, she was spotted by a camera “near the metro station.” Her phone’s been off since then.
