Hannah Kobayashi, a Hawaii woman whose disappearance launched a widespread search, has been found safe, her family said in a statement.
Her vanishing spawned conspiracies theories after she arrived in Los Angeles from Hawaii last month and missed her flight connection to New York.
Amid the search, her father travelled to Los Angeles and was found dead in what authorities declared a suicide.
But police ultimately determined Ms Kobayashi had “voluntarily” gone missing. The family did not specify where she was found, or her current location.
“We are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been found safe,” their statement reads.
“This past month has been an unimaginable ordeal for our family, and we kindly ask for privacy as we take the time to heal and process everything we have been through.”
Ms Kobayashi travelled from Maui to Los Angeles on 8 November and was supposed to travel on to New York to visit her aunt, but she never boarded the flight for the second leg of her journey.
Surveillance camera footage showed her leaving the airpo
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