Hannah Kobayashi’s Family Addresses “Voluntary Missing Person" Report

The plea from Kobayashi’s household comes astir a period aft she missed a formation from Los Angeles to New York, frankincense prompting them to turn acrophobic for her welfare. In the weeks since, Kobayashi—who was past heard from connected Nov. 11, 3 days aft the missed Nov. 8 flight—was declared a missing idiosyncratic arsenic constabulary investigated her disappearance.

In different shocking crook of events, her begetter Ryan Kobayashi, who had been successful Los Angeles to assistance successful the search, died aft jumping disconnected a parking structure adjacent Los Angeles International Airport connected Nov. 24, according to constabulary and the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner.

“It’s each parent’s nightmare,” the 58-year-old had antecedently told NBC4. “We don’t cognize wherever to start, wherever to begin. It’s similar a atom of soil successful the ocean.”

However, connected Nov. 26, the scope of the probe began to displacement erstwhile constabulary announced during a property league that they determined she had intentionally missed her plane to New York.

Then, during a Dec. 2 property conference, LAPD Chief of Police Jim McDonnell declared Kobayashi to beryllium a “voluntary missing person” aft video grounds showed her taking nationalist proscription to California’s confederate borderline and past voluntarily entering Mexico.

“To date, the probe has not uncovered immoderate grounds that Kobayashi is being trafficked oregon is the unfortunate of foul play,” helium added. “She is besides not a fishy successful immoderate transgression activity.”

Special enforcement officer Douglas Oldfield noted during the league that Kobayashi “appeared fine” and “was with cipher else” erstwhile entering the country.  

He besides addressed the family’s concerns that they hadn’t been capable to interaction Kobayashi—who they accidental had begun to nonstop messages that had been retired of quality anterior to her disappearance.

“By looking astatine her past societal media,” Oldfield said, “we past saw indications that determination were immoderate desires oregon posts that would beryllium accordant successful idiosyncratic who would person the tendency to disconnect from their phone.”

“Are we 100 percent close connected that? We can’t say,” helium continued. “We conscionable cognize that she did not person her telephone aft LAX.”

In airy of the caller grounds and the information the lawsuit had moved beyond the department’s jurisdiction, Chief McDonnell provided penetration successful however the section would beryllium moving guardant with the case.

“While the LAPD probe volition not proceed into Mexico, if anyone has credible accusation astir Hannah's whereabouts, delight interaction section instrumentality enforcement,” helium said. “If Kobayashi returns to the United States, instrumentality enforcement volition beryllium notified. The missing idiosyncratic lawsuit volition stay progressive successful the missing and unidentified persons strategy until her information is confirmed.”