Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

Hey, and there's a show without a show open. That's my fault.

But welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor, the podcast that promises to bring you the very best guests in all of true crime without a show open.

You don't get a voiceover guy who mispronounces my name.

So we're working to fix that anyway down the road.

I'm excited about this.

We've got one brand new best guest, one almost brand new

best guest, and another best guest that hasn't been here in a while, but is perfect for this story.

For those who have been following, this is a real head scratcher of the story. It has been a little

over two weeks since Hawaii native

Hannah Kobayashi has gone missing. She had this trip plan to New York State. She had a stopover

in LAX. She was originally going on the trip with her boyfriend. They had a non-refundable set of tickets.

So they said, hey, we're going to leave this amicably, but we're still going to both travel.

Apparently, they both flew on the same flight.

The boyfriend connected, ended up in New York State.

Hannah Kobayashi gets off at LAX on November 8th,

and she has since been seen on surveillance cameras and caught on a YouTube video, but no one has

talked to her for quite some time. We're going to go through the timetable today.

And then just in a tragic twist to this whole case,

her father, who I read had been estranged from her for a while.

He was desperately looking for her.

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