CLAIM: HAWAIIAN BEAUTY “MISSING AT LAX” GREEN CARD SCAM? MEXICAN CONDO HIDEOUT?
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The FBI has been pulled into the Hannah Kobayashi missing persons case after it's been discovered that she may have engaged in an immigration marriage scam. Hannah Kobayashi is reportedly married, and her new husband was on the Los Angeles flight with her. She’s now listed as voluntarily missing. Police say Kobayashi indicated her intention to "disconnect from the world."
McDonnell announce that investigators tracked Kobayashi to Mexico and have her on video walking into that country alone with her luggage on Nov. 12, four days after her arrival at LAX.
It’s coming up on the one month mark since Hawaiian beauty Hannah Kobayashi went missing. The 30-year-old got on a flight along with her ex -boyfriend, headed on a bucket list trip to New York. She intended to visit an aunt in upstate New York and take photos at a DJ's show in Brooklyn. The pre-planned trip was non-refundable so Kobayashi and the ex agreed to fly together to New York and go their separate ways upon arrival. The flight arrives at Los Angeles International Airport 9:53 p.m. The connecting flight to JFK in New York was scheduled for 11:00 p.m. Kobayashi never made it to the connector, and the search was on.
Kobayashi was seen in the next few hours at multiple sights around Los Angeles, then all communication stopped. A worried family reports the woman missing, and a wide scale search by police was launched.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Gregory Morse - Partner at the law firm of King Morse, PLLC. Current CJA counsel, Former West Palm Beach Public Defender's Office. Author: "The Untested" website: kingmorselaw.com
- Caryn Stark - Psychologist, www.carynstark.com, Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
- Irv Brandt - Former Senior Inspector, US Marshals Service International Investigations Branch, Chief Inspector, DOJ Office of International Affairs; Country Attache, US Embassy Kingston, Jamaica, Author: “SOLO SHOT: CURSE OF THE BLUE STONE" Twitter: @JackSoloAuthor
- Steve Fischer - Missing Persons Private Investigator, Search & Rescue Specialist, Owner of Search Investigations, www.searchinvestigations.org, Twitter: @SF_Investigates
- Scott Eicher - A founding member of the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team (C.A.S.T); Historical Cellular Analysis Expert; Former FBI agent, Former Police Officer and Homicide Detective with Norfolk Virgina Police, Currently with Precision Cellular Analysis handling Criminal, Defense and Civil case, website: https://www.pcaexperts.com/
- Alexis Tereszcuk - Crime Online investigative reporter
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| 0:30.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:36.8 | The Hawaiian Beauty Missing at LAX caught up in a green card marriage scam. |
| 0:45.2 | What is Hanukobayashi now hiding out in a Mexican condo hidey hole? |
| 0:53.8 | Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:58.0 | Born in Oahu, Hawaii and creative from an early age, Hannah Kobayashi draws pictures with crayons before she can talk. |
| 1:05.0 | Kobayashi's aunt, Laurie Pigeon, says Hannah has the spark you wish you had. |
| 1:10.0 | But things take a turn for the worst when Hannah misses her connecting flight to New York |
| 1:16.9 | City and seemingly disappears. |
| 1:20.6 | According to the LA magazine, Kobayashi was apparently scammed out of the proceeds of a |
| 1:26.1 | purported immigration scheme, possibly |
| 1:30.3 | concocted by her, quote, former partner, an ex-boyfriend. |
| 1:36.2 | She did not miss her flight. |
| 1:38.4 | She's somehow masterminded rerouting her bags, which were already on the way to JFK in the bowels of LAX, the LA airport, got it redirected to her, and took off, found a place to take a shower and blow dry her hair last scene crossing into Mexico. |
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