The troubling text messages sent from missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi’s phone may have been from someone “controlling her,” the aspiring photographer’s sister claimed with the belief she’s alive.

Hannah Kobayashi has been missing since November 8 when she stopped over at LAX on her way from Hawaii to New York

The father of a Hawaii woman who went missing two weeks ago was found dead on Sunday, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Hannah Kobayashi was involved in many creative and entrepreneurial projects before the 30-year-old disappeared this month. She was headed to New York to photograph a performance, but never got on a flight she was supposed to take,

Ryan Kobayashi, whose daughter Hannah went missing in Los Angeles two weeks ago, was found dead on Sunday, according to the LAPD.

Police are probing suspicious payments made by a Hawaiian woman who went missing more than two weeks ago in Los Angeles. One of the payments was sent at 6:25pm to a woman named Veronica Almendarez and was labeled with a bow-and-arrow emoji.

The next was sent about an hour later at 7:19 p.m. to a man named Jonathan Taylor, also for an undisclosed amount. The payment carried the description "Reading"

Hannah Kobayashi made the payments to a man and woman on November 9, a day after she missed a connecting flight to New York and stayed back in Los Angeles.

The family of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi say two suspicious Venmo payments she made to a man and woman around the time she vanished are being investigated by