After viewing alarming footage of her from greater than every week in the past Kobayashi’s family members say they’re rising extra apprehensive and imagine one thing has gone terribly fallacious.

Kobayashi’s household says she additionally despatched a collection of troubling texts earlier than her disappearance en path to New York for a “bucket checklist” journey.

A lacking individuals report was filed with the Los Angeles Police Division on Nov. 10, however as new video footage emerges, Kobayashi’s household is rising an increasing number of involved for her wellbeing, a household rep informed The New York Publish.

The household lately seen surveillance footage of Kobayashi in downtown Los Angeles that exhibits she was with an unidentified particular person close to the Pico Metro station on Nov. 11, Kobayashi’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon, informed The Publish.

Whereas she informed the outlet she couldn’t present extra details about the video as a result of the investigation into her niece’s disappearance is ongoing, she stated it has triggered “main alarm, and form of solidified the household’s suspicion that one thing has been awry.”

“It has made us extraordinarily apprehensive,” Pidgeon added.

The household hopes the brand new footage leads the LAPD to do extra to search out Kobayashi.

And whereas the police division informed Pidgeon and the remainder of Kobayashi’s household that the investigation is ongoing, they’re additionally taking issues into their very own fingers.

“The household is form of doing their very own investigation on the bottom,” Pidgeon stated, including they need to “put just a little bit extra stress on (police) to do as a lot because the household’s doing” in mild of the brand new footage.

Hannah’s sister, Sydni Kobayashi, wrote on-line this week that the LAPD has not been a lot assist. She stated police “are usually not taking this as critically as we might hope as a result of my sister is taken into account an grownup who could make her personal selections.”

Kobayashi went lacking after flying from Maui to Los Angeles on Nov. 8, the place she was speculated to hop on a connecting flight to New York to go to her aunt. She missed that flight, though surveillance footage signifies she landed at LAX.

She additionally despatched some unusual texts to her household earlier than she vanished, together with messaging a pal that she “bought tricked into just about giving freely all my funds.”

In one other message, she claimed she was supposedly fooled by “somebody I believed I liked.”

“Deep Hackers wiped my id, stole all of my funds, & have had me on a thoughts f–k since Friday,” one other message learn, along with her household telling the outlet that the texts supposedly from Kobayashi are usually not like her.

Different footage confirmed Kobayashi on the Grove buying middle within the Fairfax District of LA on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10, in addition to video of her returning to LAX, however not getting on a flight on Nov. 11 earlier than she was seen close to the metro station, USA Right this moment reported.

Kobayashi’s telephone has additionally reportedly been off since Nov. 11, per her household, who’re persevering with the search this Thursday in Los Angeles, with the assistance of associates and volunteers close to the Crypto.com Area at 3:30 p.m., earlier than the Los Angeles Lakers play on the venue that night.

Hannah Kobayashi is described as 5 toes 10 inches tall and about 140 kilos. She has brown hair and brown eyes, and is fair-skinned with freckles.

Anybody with data concerning her disappearance is inspired to contact the LAPD and/or her household at 845-750-3006.