Buddies of lacking Hawaii girl Hannah Kobayashi suppose the ultimate string of textual content messages that relations and buddies obtained from the photographer’s mobile phone are suspect and “didn’t sound like her.”
“I had textual content messages together with her and those on these screenshots don’t really feel like her,” Ariana Ursua, 30, a Hawaii-based freelancer instructed The Put up. She met Kobayashi in 2017 on the Complete Meals she labored at in Maui.
“All of the texts I’ve together with her — they’ve emojis. She has a really distinct manner of messaging,” Ursua stated, noting Kobayashi would sometimes finish messages with coronary heart emojis, stars, butterflies, waves, rainbows, and the like.
She additionally stated that Kobayashi, whereas a “real, free spirit,” isn’t somebody to simply casually disappear.
“I personally have all the time felt like I can depend on her — she’s genuinely one of the caring folks I do know. If it was voluntarily [that she went missing] she would have made it recognized. She would have made it recognized that she was texting,” stated Ursua, who stated she final spoke together with her buddy on October 17.
“I don’t really feel prefer it’s her to make folks involved. She wouldn’t simply ghost out of nowhere. Often at events she’s the one that may ensure that she says bye to her buddy,” she added.
“She was actually messaging me about Burning Man 2025 subsequent 12 months. She was actually posting about New York in October when she was stepping into November. She cherished dreaming and making these goals occur.”
Kobayashi flew from Maui to Los Angeles on Nov. 8 and was slated to depart on a connecting flight to New York Metropolis, the place she deliberate to go to her aunt, 42 minutes later.
She and her ex-boyfriend had been booked on the identical flights, however had been anticipated to half methods as soon as they arrived to New York, Kobayashi’s sister, Sydni Kobayashi, instructed CNN final week.
However Kobayashi by no means made the second flight.
On Nov. 9, Kobayashi was then seen at a bookshop an hour away from Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX).
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell stated the investigation decided lacking her connecting flight was “intentional,” The Solar reported.
On Nov. 10, a YouTube video surfaced exhibiting Kobayashi on the LeBron XXII Trial occasion on the Nike retailer in The Grove in Los Angeles. Kobayashi shared a picture of the occasion on her Instagram.
On Nov. 11, Kobayashi texted her mom, saying she had not arrived in New York. Texts messages from Nov. 11 despatched from her cellphone to family and friends have additionally surfaced.
“Deep Hackers wiped my identification, stole all of my funds, & have had me on a thoughts f—okay since Friday,” one textual content message to a buddy stated.
An different one stated, “I acquired tricked just about into making a gift of all my funds … For somebody I believed I cherished.”
One other learn, “I’m simply actually scared love & the redwoods if calling me & I do know I’m meant to be there, I’m being guided there, like you may have earlier than … I danger my freedom if this goes fallacious for me hun.”
She additionally despatched her aunt in New York, Pidgeon, a textual content saying, “I simply completed a really intense non secular awakening,” Pidgeon stated.
The ex-boyfriend, who has not been formally named, reportedly made it to New York.
Kobayashi’s former roommate, Allisa Peterson, 29, who lived together with her for 3 months in 2022 in Maui, additionally instructed The Put up that she’s suspicious of the textual content messages.
“What was most regarding was using the phrase ‘hun.’ She does say loving phrases like that, nevertheless it felt sort of cryptic her message,” stated Peterson, who as soon as ran a floral design enterprise with Kobayashi and final spoke to her on October, 5.
Since Hannah was heard from final on Nov. 11, the web has been speculating over her whereabouts, with some alleging she was brainwashed by a cult or blackmailed by African hackers.
Her father, Ryan Kobayashi, 58, died of an obvious suicide on Sunday Nov. 24, six days after his daughter was reported lacking. The Los Angeles County medical examiners confirmed Monday that he jumped from a LAX parking storage on whereas searching for his lacking daughter.
“It feels actually bizarre how cryptic [the messages are] contemplating how not cryptic Hannah is. Not less than the Hannah I do know,” Ursua stated. “I pray she’s nonetheless alive.”
