Kobayashi disappeared and stopped contacting her family just days after missing a connecting flight from Maui to New York at LAX, which “the investigation determined was intentional,” McDonnell said at a Nov. 26 Board of Police Commissioners meeting.

Three weeks after a Hawaii woman vanished in LA, her family is vowing to continue the search into the disappearance amid unsettling text messages.

Maui resident Hannah Kobayashi flew from Hawaii to Los Angeles for a brief layover on the way to visit her aunt in New York City on Nov. 8. More than three weeks later, she hasn’t been seen since. The time since has been anything but ordinary,