A set up to support the family’s search efforts while helping defray the cost of Ryan Kobayashi’s funeral, led by Sydni and her mother, Brandi Yee, had raised more than $41, 000 by Wednesday evening.

The family of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi say two suspicious Venmo payments she made to a man and woman around the time she vanished are being investigated by cops. Kobayashi, 30, made the payments on Nov.

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,