223: The Truth About Hannah Kobayashi: Love Triangle Scam, She's Refusing to Leave Mexico & The Shocking Twist
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at participating mcdonald's for a limited time hey true crime besties welcome back to an all-new episode of serial asleep Hey everybody, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, Annie Elise. I hope you are ready for like a deep dive today because this case is very complex and like there are a lot of twists and theories and conspiracies and at first I wasn't going to cover this case, I couldn't quite figure out what was going on, but then as we were researching it, it was like there were so many different things and i hate this expression but i'm going to just say it there were so many different layers as you peeled back the onion i mean there's allegations of joining a cult and being scammed through that through twin flames there's allegations of a secret marriage between a man and this woman and he had a wife the whole time or a girlfriend the whole time who helped him do this scam on hannah
there's allegations of foul play i mean there's a lot of different stuff to go over and if you haven't guessed by now today we are doing a mega deep dive into the case of hannah kobayashi and again just when you think there haven't been any updates it seems like there are and i'm going to be really curious to know from you guys what you think along the way because i would imagine at this point by now everybody is aware of this case to some degree maybe you've seen it on your social media maybe you've seen a news article maybe you've seen it on youtube however again like i said as we like really went into the trenches of it there's something weird here. There's something weird going on, in my opinion. So I want to lay it all out for you.
And I will do a brief recap of, you know, what the situation is. But then I want to lay out for you everything that we found and all of the different theories out there too. And I want you to come to your conclusions and let me know what you think.
The desperate search continues for a missing woman from Maui. She was on her way to New York, but missed the connection at LAX. Tips are coming in, but nothing solid. Now, no one has heard from her in more than a week.
All women, beware. There are things happening, especially in California.
Was she abducted? You know the word, and I hate to say it, but the word trafficked.
Now, before her case went viral and everybody was talking about it, Hannah Kobayashi seemed like a normal 30-year-old woman. She lived in Maui, Hawaii, and she was trying to build a career in photography. Now, while she wasn't super well-established yet, she was definitely an up-and-comer, and she had a great future ahead of her. So to all appearances, Hannah seemed happy. She had a good relationship with her family. She had good friends. She had gone through a breakup recently, which we know that that's never easy. It's never a good time to go through a breakup. But other than that, things were okay. Plus, the breakup was amicable. I mean, as much as a breakup ever can be amicable, right? But the point is, there were no big red flags or anything that was seriously wrong in Hannah's life. Not at all. It seemed like she was working on healing from that breakup, moving on, doing all of the things that brought her joy in life. And all to say she felt like a pretty normal 30-year-old, like I said before.
She had a lot going on in her life, plenty of things to help her feel connected to her friends and her life. She had no reason to run away or want to abandon everything. And so far as everyone could tell, she also didn't seem to be in any kind of trouble or danger either. So that's where things stood on November 8th, 2024. On that day, Hannah was planning to fly from Maui to New York City. She had booked a photography gig in New York, and she also had some relatives who lived in the area that she was planning to visit with. She also made a little bucket list of sorts of what she planned to do while she was in New York. So this trip was going to be a blend of work and, you know, vacation, a little bit of both. It was a time to see her family, but also a time to make some money.
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