As the family grappled with the double tragedy of Ms Kobayashi’s disappearance and her father’s subsequent suicide, they were offered new hope after police reported the following week that she had in fact crossed into Mexico on Nov 12, the day after her family reported her missing.

Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman whose disappearance in Los Angeles launched a desperate search by family and friends, has been found safe in Los Angeles about a month after she voluntarily went missing,