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A New York grandma went missing in Las Vegas. Now her family is getting texts asking for money.
By
Nicole Valdes,
Kerry Breen
August 18, 2026 / 10:17 AM EDT / CBS News
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More than a week after a New York woman disappeared in Las Vegas, her family is receiving messages from her phone asking for cash and bitcoin.
Alisa Goods, 63, traveled to Las Vegas to visit a friend, her family said. The friend told her family that Goods left his apartment on Aug. 8 to take a bus to a nearby CVS and never came back.
Her daughter Kristen said she's extremely worried about her mother's well-being.
"I am hoping to God for the best, but my heart can't take what it could be, which is the worst," Kristen Goods told CBS News.
Alisa Goods, a grandmother of five, was reported missing on Aug. 10. Two days later, her family says they started receiving messages from her phone. The texts asked for help, gas money and bitcoin. Niece Alana Calloway said the request for gas money was especially strange because Goods does not drive.
"I said, 'What do you need gas for? The car?' My aunt does not drive. There is no car," Calloway said.
Calloway raised the possibility that her aunt had been kidnapped.
"If they have her phone, there's a possibility that they have her," Calloway said. "I want to know that she's OK and that she is alive."
The Las Vegas Metro Police say Alisa Goods' missing person case is active and ask anyone with information to contact investigators. Her family said they have contacted local hospitals, jails and even the coroner's office, but have so far turned up no leads. Kristen Goods is now in Las Vegas trying to find answers.
"She is still out there, and we're looking for her," Kristen Goods said. "We want her home. We want her back."
NYC woman who went missing in Las Vegas found dead near airport, family and police say
Alisa Goods, the 63-year-old grandmother from New York City who went missing during a trip to Las Vegas, has been found dead, according to her family.
“For our family, this is a devastating loss,” said the family’s GoFundMe page. “After the uncertainty and anguish of not knowing where she was, we are now faced with the painful reality of saying goodbye and making arrangements to honor her life and memory.”
On Thursday, the Metropolitan Police Department received a call about a woman’s body in a drainage ditch area near Harry Reid International Airport. Officers found the body near Wayne Newton Boulevard and the Terminal 1 parking garage, police said in a release.
Video surveillance footage from the airport on Aug. 8 showed Goods falling down an embankment, getting back up and then collapsing, according to police. Her location could not be seen from the street.
The Clark County coroner’s office said Saturday that the cause and manner of Goods’ death had yet to be determined.
Goods was last seen at about 1:40 p.m. that day, wearing black Adidas sweatpants and a blue denim jacket near the 4900 block of South Maryland Parkway, according to a missing persons flyer from Metro. She was reported missing Aug. 10, two days after the fall.
The National Weather Service recorded a high of 113 degrees on Aug. 8, following 109 on Aug. 7 and 108 on Aug. 6.
Goods had traveled to Las Vegas to spend time with a longtime friend, her daughter Kristen Goods said.
“We knew when we couldn’t get her on the phone within those two days that something had happened to her, and that she was in imminent danger,” Kristen Goods said.
Her sister Mielle Stone and daughter Kristen Goods said that a member of their family received texts requesting payment for gas in the form of Bitcoin on Aug. 12. The family took this as a worrisome sign that it was not Alisa Goods texting from her phone, as she did not drive, nor did she rent a car while in Vegas.
“Our mother was deeply loved, and her absence leaves a space in our family that can never be filled,” said the family on their GoFundMe Page. “We are doing our best to navigate this loss together and to celebrate the life she lived, the people she loved, and the memories she left with us.”
The family requests financial support for funeral and memorial service expenses, among other costs related to Goods’ passing.
Contact Kalohe Danbara at kdanbara@reviewjournal.com. Staff reporter Akiya Dillon contributed to this report.
This story has been updated to include information from the Clark County coroner’s office.
NYC woman who went missing in Las Vegas found dead near airport, family and police say
Alisa Goods, the 63-year-old grandmother from New York City who went missing during a trip to Las Vegas, has been found dead, according to her family.
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