Hawaii Woman Disappears from LAX as Family Receives ‘Alarming’ Texts

LOS ANGELES—A search is underway for a 31-year-old woman who disappeared after landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), where she had missed her connecting flight.
According to her family, Hannah Kobayashi was traveling to New York City to visit family when she disappeared. She landed at LAX on Nov. 8, but after missing her connecting flight, she apparently traveled to The Grove shopping center, where she attended a Nov. 10 Nike event—from which she posted a photo to her Instagram page.
Her family says Kobayashi went back to LAX on Nov. 11, but apparently did not board a flight. It was on that day that the family says they started to receive strange text messages from her….