The case of a Hawaiian woman missing for most of the month keeps taking new twists.
Friends and authorities have been looking for 30-year-old Hannah Kobayashi since she failed to make a connecting flight in Los Angeles while en route from Maui to New York on Nov. 8, as the New York Post reported.
Kobayashi’s father died of an apparent suicide on Sunday. Now, friends and relatives are questioning whether the last, cryptic texts from Kobayashi’s phone were actually sent by her at all.

Hannah Kobayashi’s friends think final texts before disappearance were faked because they don’t include emojis https://t.co/eU415KnwAT pic.twitter.com/U8q7DrXvpQ
— New York Post (@nypost) November 29, 2024

One friend, Ariana Ursua, who has known Kobayashi since 2017, according to the Post, said the texts don’ …