Hannah Kobayashi returns to US from Mexico healthy and safe after nationwide search, father’s suicide

Hannah Kobayashi — the missing Hawaiian photographer who mysteriously vanished last month — is back in the US, according to a new report.

Kobayashi has returned to California in good health after she fled to Mexico, TMZ reported.
She is not under any duress — and was greeted in California by her attorney, not her family, the gossip site noted.

The 30-year-old sparked a massive manhunt when she failed to board a flight to New York City from LAX last month and sent her family strange text messages. The bizarre case took a tragic turn when her dad committed suicide on Nov. 24 while searching in vain for her.

Kobayashi’s family last heard from her on Nov. 11, three days after she was set to fly to New York to visit an aunt and sightsee with an ex-boyfriend after flying to Los Angeles from her native Maui.

Photographer Hannah Kobayashi went missing last month. Hannah Kobayashi/ Instagram

Her friends and family received a series of alarming texts from her phone during that time period.

“Deep Hackers wiped my identity, stole all of my funds, & have had me on a mind f—k since Friday,” one text message to a friend said. Another one said, “I got tricked pretty much into giving away all my funds … For someone I thought I loved.”

Another read, “I’m just really scared love & the redwoods if calling me & I know I’m meant to be there, I’m being guided there, like you have before … I risk my freedom if this goes wrong for me hun.”  

Her former roommate, Allisa Peterson, told The Post she was wary that the messages actually came from Kobayashi, who followed accounts for mystic love cult Twin Flames on Instagram.

Kobayashi had last been seen at Los Angeles International Airport on Nov. 8. Courtesy Larie Pidgeon

A missing person’s flyer for Kobayashi. Missing People In America/Facebook

“What was most concerning was the use of the word ‘hun.’ She does say loving words like that, but it felt kind of cryptic her message,” said Peterson, who last spoke to her on Oct. 5.

Authorities said Kobayashi was last seen on Nov. 12 heading into Baja California, Mexico after taking a bus to the border. Los Angeles police said they had evidence that she was traveling alone and classified the case as a “voluntary missing person.”

It’s still unclear what Kobayashi, who has not spoken publicly, was doing in Mexico.

In a sad twist, her father Ryan Kobayashi, 58, plunged to death from a parking garage at LAX after she was reported missing.

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