Pidgeon

“At daybreak on December 15th, I crossed the border back into the United States,” Kobayashi said in a statement provided by her aunt, Larie Pidgeon.

In the statement - issued in a letter through her aunt Larie Pidgeon - Ms Kobayashi also said she returned to the US from Mexico on Sunday.

“The search is still on for Hannah,” said Kobayashi’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon.

By the time her flight arrived in Los Angeles, however, she didn’t have time to make a connecting flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, according to Pidgeon.

After missing her flight, Kobayashi went to the Taschen bookstore near The Grove on Nov. 9 and sent a photo of a book to a relative, according to Pidgeon.