Hannah has been lacking since Nov. 11 when she did not board her connecting flight in Los Angeles throughout her journey from Hawaii to New York.

The 31-year-old had texted a good friend saying she “received tricked into just about making a gift of all my funds,” earlier than a follow-up textual content claiming she was supposedly hoodwinked “for somebody I assumed I liked.”

Now, her sister, Sydni Kobayashi, feels that the messages despatched from Hannah’s cellphone could have been from somebody “controlling her,” telling NewsNation in a brand new interview that the mysterious messages have been “not like her.”

“That is utterly out of character for my sister,” Sydni advised the outlet. “Intuitively figuring out her and being so near her my complete life, I simply know that is completely not like her.”

“Particularly 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, sustaining the assumption that her sister continues to be alive.

The 2 messages have been despatched simply earlier than Hannah’s cellphone was turned off.

“We’ve been made conscious and so have the LAPD. It is of their fingers,” Hannah’s aunt Larie Pidgeon advised the the US Solar.

Sydni referred to as the entire state of affairs “weird” and says her sister would “have by no means carried out something like this to our household.”

Since a lacking individual’s report was filed, the Kobayashi household had flown to Los Angeles to assist in the search efforts, together with their father, Ryan Kobayashi, who dedicated suicide amid the seek for Hannah.

Police confirmed that Ryan died after he jumped off a parking construction close to LAX someday round 4 a.m. Sunday, six days after his daughter was reported lacking.

Sydni remembered her father as a “loving, caring, kind-hearted particular person who “fought till his final breath” on the lookout for his daughter.

The household claims that they’d initially been left at midnight by detectives and hadn’t heard from an official for the primary ten days, solely reaching out after Hannah’s story started making headlines, with the household gathering in downtown L.A. to start their search. There, they handed out fliers, with Hannah’s late father amongst these spearheading search efforts.

The household has since obtained common updates on the case, with the lead detective conferring with Kobayashi’s mom.

Primarily based on the data they’ve obtained from police, Sydni stated they imagine Hannah continues to be alive.

“We will not expose into but, I do not suppose individuals perceive that we now have to be very cautious of what we do launch as a result of we’re getting hundreds and hundreds of ideas from all over the place,” she defined to NewsNation.

Sydni did tease, nevertheless, that her household obtained info which leads them to imagine Hannah continues to be alive.

Amid the seek for Hannah and the heartbreaking hardships their household have already confronted with the dying of their household patriarch, Sydni is asking for “some grace” as they proceed to keep up hope that Hannah continues to be on the market.

“We ask that you simply simply give our household some grace,” Sydni advised the outlet. “Think about if it was the one you love.”