Aunt shares theory that may have led to missing woman’s father’s death during search – US News

Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide that some readers may find disturbing.

Hannah Kobayashi’s disappearance after she missed her connecting flight has caused a stir online, with her family commenting on online theories.

Photographer Hanna mysteriously disappeared in the days after landing at LAX on November 8, viewing unusual behavior before he was seen with an unidentified person.

Her phone She was last traceable on November 11, before she went offline and friends and family received a series of strange “spiritual awakening” text messages from her phone.

Her fatherRyan Kobayashi, flew to Los Angeles on November 10 to help search for his daughter and was seen handing out fliers to residents of the city.

Speaking to news outlet KTLA on Monday (November 18), trying to contact Hannah and stating, “I miss her,” he added, “I just want her to know about it and to reach out – whatever.”

But on Sunday (November 24), Ryan, 58, was found dead at the bottom of the parking garage at LAX at 4 a.m. According to NBC Los Angeles.

In a statement from the Kobayashi family released through the nonprofit organization RAD Movement: he stated: “The Kobayashi family experienced a devastating tragedy today.

“After 13 days of tireless searching in Los Angeles, Hannah’s father, Ryan Kobayashi, tragically took his own life. This loss has greatly increased the family’s suffering.”

However, they asked for support and consideration of comments and posts as well supporters of conspiracy theories they still rioted.

Theories include claims that she was brainwashed by a cult, taken over by hackers, or that her father planned her kidnapping himself.

On Monday (November 25), the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ruled Ryan’s death a suicide. The cause was blunt force trauma.

Hannah’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon, shared her theories social media users claiming Down The New York Post on Monday: “This is bullshit! This is bullshit!”

“If Ryan is looking at all this shit, imagine it weighing on him?”

“It broke,” she began to explain.

Pidgeon continued: “He died of a broken heart. We searched tirelessly and Ryan was a big, giant teddy bear. He is sensitive. Imagine looking up places like Skid Row and imagining his daughter being sex trafficked and not sleeping. It just broke.

Some of Hannah’s texts to friends included crazy statements, one of which read: “Deep Hackers erased my identity, stole all my funds and have been driving me crazy since Friday.”

Another said: “I basically got scammed and gave away all my funds… To the person I thought I loved.”

Hannah missed her connecting flight from LAX to New York and was traveling with her ex-boyfriend because they bought tickets before breaking up, even though they weren’t sitting together.

A message from Hannah’s phone to her aunt also read, “I just completed a very intense spiritual awakening.”

But Pidgeon clarified that no one in the family was to blame, including Hannah, saying: “People want more from this story than just that the world is cruel and evil and that a woman traveling alone could be kidnapped in the blink of an eye. .

“Everything was fine until the 11th. We’re the kind of family that if you mess up, you’ll ask for help. She wouldn’t hide anything,” the aunt insisted, believing that instead her niece had been kidnapped while trying to book a flight at LAX.

Hannah is described as being 170cm tall and approximately 60kg, with brown hair, brown eyes, fair skin and freckles.

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