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,

Yet another eerie twist has emerged in the search for Hannah Kobayashi, the 31-year-old who disappeared after missing a connecting flight at LAX earlier this month. Kobayashi’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon, revealed Tuesday night that cops are investigating a pair of strange Venmo payments she made on Nov.

The 31-year-old had texted a friend saying she "got tricked into pretty much giving away all my funds," before a follow-up claimed she was supposedly hoodwinked “for someone I thought I loved.”