Hannah Kobayashi disappearance: Sister believes unusual texts weren’t from her, ‘Someone was controlling her’

Hannah’s household reportedly obtained unusual texts from her earlier than she disappeared, one in all which claimed she “acquired tricked into just about giving freely all my funds.” A follow-up message claimed she was supposedly hoodwinked “for somebody I assumed I liked.”

‘It looks like somebody was controlling her’

Sydni Kobayashi, Hannah’s sister, mentioned she felt the messages have been “not like her.” “This is totally out of character for my sister,” Sydni informed NewsNation. “Intuitively realizing her and being so near her my whole life, I simply know that is completely not like her.”

“Especially with these textual content messages that she simply left that she final despatched it simply in my thoughts it looks like somebody was controlling her or it may not even have been her,” she added.

The messages have been despatched simply earlier than Hannah’s telephone was turned off. Cops are additionally investigating two suspicious Venmo funds she reportedly made to a person and girl on November 9, a day after she missed a connecting flight to New York.

“We have been made conscious and so have the LAPD. It’s of their arms,” Hannah’s aunt Larie Pidgeon informed the US Sun.

“We are nonetheless targeted on Downtown LA. Even although it’s been 15 [days] we nonetheless have hope,” she added.

The household’s state of affairs worsened after Hannah’s father, 58-year-old Ryan Kobayashi, jumped to his dying through the ongoing seek for her. It is unclear what made him take the intense step.

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