Yet another eerie twist has emerged in the search for Hannah Kobayashi, the 31-year-old who disappeared after missing a connecting flight at LAX earlier this month. Kobayashi’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon, revealed Tuesday night that cops are investigating a pair of strange Venmo payments she made on Nov.

Hannah's sister, Sydni Kobayashi, said that the payments were made to individuals whose names were unfamiliar to the family.

Hannah Kobayashi was involved in many creative and entrepreneurial projects before the 30-year-old disappeared this month. She was headed to New York to photograph a performance, but never got on a flight she was supposed to take,

The 31-year-old had texted a friend saying she “got tricked into pretty much giving away all my funds,” before a follow-up claimed she was supposedly hoodwinked “for someone I thought

Hannah Kobayashi made the payments to a man and woman on November 9, a day after she missed a connecting flight to New York and stayed back in Los Angeles.

Police are probing suspicious payments made by a Hawaiian woman who went missing more than two weeks ago in Los Angeles. One of the payments was sent at 6:25pm to a woman named Veronica Almendarez and was labeled with a bow-and-arrow emoji.

The next was sent about an hour later at 7:19 p.m. to a man named Jonathan Taylor, also for an undisclosed amount. The payment carried the description "Reading"