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Whereas the Los Angeles Police Division could have concluded that 30-year-old Maui photographer Hannah Kobayashi’s disappearance was voluntary, her household is skeptical.

On Tuesday, the LAPD decided that Kobayashi, who went lacking on November 12, disappeared voluntarily when she waked into Mexico alone. They cited surveillance footage captured on the San Ysidro border crossing south of San Diego that reportedly reveals Kobayashi crossing the border into Tijuana alone and on foot.

The video was captured the similar day she disappeared, November 12.

Sydni Kobayashi, Hannah’s sister, appeared along with her lawyer, Sara Azari, on NBC Information‘ High Story with Tom Llamas after LAPD Police Chief Jim McDonnell’s announcement.

Based on the household, the LAPD mentioned there was little extra they might do for the Kobayashis.

“We’re simply as confused and simply as pissed off greater than something now,” Sydni mentioned.

Azari mentioned the LAPD reached their conclusion “with out displaying [Hannah’s family] any footage.”

“It takes much more digging and investigation to have the ability to say it is voluntary,” she mentioned.

Sydni anxious that her sister could be the sufferer of human trafficking. McDonnell mentioned throughout a press convention on Monday that police didn’t consider she was being trafficked.

She mentioned Hannah and her had been extraordinarily shut, and she or he couldn’t consider that her sister would simply stroll out of her life on a whim.

Azari informed NBC Information that the household and volunteers prepared to assist would proceed to seek for Hannah in Mexico. if Hannah crosses again into the US legally, she must current a passport, which ought to alert officers to her presence.

Sydni begged her sister to contact her.

“I can not stress sufficient how cherished you might be, how supported you might be,” she mentioned. “We’re actually anxious about you. It doesn’t matter what scenario you are in, you all the time have a house to come back to.”

McDonnell additionally inspired Hannah to succeed in out to her household.

“She has a proper to her privateness, and we respect her selections, however we additionally perceive the priority her family members really feel for her,” he mentioned. “A easy message may reassure those that care about her.”

Any contact in any respect would virtually actually be welcomed by Hannah’s household. Her ultimate textual content messages to her family members had been reportedly “alarming,” her aunt, Larie Pidgeon, mentioned in a Fb put up final month.

Although Pidgeon didn’t present particular quotes, she steered that Hannah had feared somebody was making an attempt to intercept her in Los Angeles and steal her id.