By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-15 16:01:56 | Updated at 2024-11-22 09:29:05
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A Hawaiian family is desperately looking for their daughter who mysteriously went missing in Los Angeles as chilling texts reveal what may have happened.
Hannah Kobayashi, 30, flew from her home in Maui on November 8 and was meant to arrive in New York City the next day.
But mother, Brandi Yee, and sister Sydni Kobayashi believe she went vanished into thin air at Los Angeles International Airport and never boarded her connecting flight.
'I didn't hear from her. I texted her, "Hey, are you in New York City yet?" She just texted me, "Not yet."'
'My sister, I reached out to her, and I'm like, "Hey, have you heard from Hannah?" She's like, "No. She's supposed to meet me at the hotel in New York City and we're supposed to go to a show tonight,"' the worried mother recalled to HawaiiNewsNow.
But while the duo think Hannah left the airport and attended an event based on a series of texts suggesting she 'had a spiritual awakening and was heading back to the airport', a friend believes otherwise.
The concerned companion said she received strange texts from Kobayashi's phone - indicating that she may be in trouble.
'I got tricked pretty much into giving away all my funds. For someone I thought I loved,' the messages read.
Hannah Kobayashi, 30, flew from her home in Maui on November 8 and was meant to arrive in New York City the next day
But mother, Brandi Yee and sister, Sydni Kobayashi believe she went vanished into thin air at Los Angeles International Airport and never boarded her connecting flight
The family also noted that the young artist's phone has been off since November 11 and her last pinned location was at the Los Angeles Airport.
'She heard from Hannah. She was at LAX, and she said that she was scared,' Yee said.
Sydni further added: 'She texted her that she was scared and that she couldn’t come back home or something. It was just really weird texts.'
Both mother and daughter also believe that the messages 'did not sound like her' and wonder if it was Hannah who sent them.
Yee remarked, 'Yeah, we share location' to which Sydni added: 'And we know her phone’s off because it goes straight to voicemail.
'We've been trying to call and call and call, text.
'None of the texts are getting delivered. We can't locate her phone.'
The family has filed a missing person's report with the Los Angeles Police Department and requested anyone with information to come forward.
But while the duo think Hannah left the airport and attended an event based on a series of texts suggesting she 'had a spiritual awakening and was heading back to the airport', a friend believes otherwise
The concerned companion said she received strange texts from Kobayashi's phone - indicating that she may be in trouble
Both mother and daughter also believe that the messages 'did not sound like her' and wonder if it was Hannah who sent them
The family also noted that the young artist's phone has been off since November 11 and her last pinned location was at the Los Angeles Airport
The family has filed a missing person's report with the Los Angeles Police Department and requested anyone with information to come forward
'We did everything that we could do. And they told us that it would be, it would have to take 48 hours before they could do anything, because she’s not elderly, she’s not mentally off. She's not under age.
'I woke up last night crying and I just like, this like the sister, mother, anyone’s worst nightmare of losing your child.
'Please help her, if you can. If you know where she's at, or you have the chance to just help her, please. We just want to bring her home,' the mother revealed.
This comes days after the family of missing Gossip Girl actress Chanel Maya Banks claims that the woman found by police in Texas is not her.
Following a two-week search for the star who plays Sawyer Bennett in the hit Netflix show, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) located a 36-year-old in Texas on Monday, claiming they had found the actress unharmed.
'Please help her, if you can. If you know where she's at, or you have the chance to just help her, please. We just want to bring her home,' the mother said
Chanel Maya Banks' family have doubled down on their claims that a woman, 36, LAPD found on Monday is not the Gossip Girl star
The Gossip Girl actress has since revealed that left her family in order to be baptized by Pastor Robert Clancey, who recently preached about the 'end times'.
But her family have doubled down on the fact they do not believe the woman cops found - or the woman posting online - is Banks.
The star's cousin, Danielle-Tori Singh took to her Instagram story to share: 'I have the still from Texas PD body cam footage that was shown to us on Monday Nov 11 at the Pacific Police Station in LA.
'This is the woman they're telling us is Chanel. We have told them this is not Chanel. They didn't listen to us and closed the case.
'That's why @ohhheychanel won't post a video saying she's safe because it's not Chanel,' Singh ended the explanation, after flying in from Toronto to help with the search.
Singh previously said LAPD's update was 'fake news' and that the woman they found and claimed to be Banks is an 'imposter'.
She added that she will continue distributing 'Missing Persons' flyers, ABC7 reports.
It comes after Banks took to social media on Wednesday night with a statement in which she made the series of strong allegations against her family.
