What Happened To Missing Grandmother Alisa Goods?

New York grandmother Alisa Goods has been missing for nearly two weeks after disappearing while visiting a longtime friend in Las Vegas, according to reports from FOX5 Las Vegas and NBC News. Her family has traveled across the country and searched hospitals, morgues and other locations in an urgent effort to find the 63-year-old grandmother of five.

Missing grandmother in Las Vegas: What happened to Alisa Goods?

Goods’ daughter, Kristen Goods, traveled from New Jersey to Nevada to search for her mother and help follow up on leads.

“We have checked hospitals,” Kristen Goods told FOX5 Vegas in an interview published Aug. 20. “We have checked morgues.”

The family reported Goods missing to authorities on Aug. 10, two days after she was last seen.

“I’m extremely worried,” Kristen told the station.

Goods had been staying with Roger John, a friend of about 20 years whom she had visited in Las Vegas several times before, according to her family.

John previously told KLAS-TV that Goods left his apartment around 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 8 to take a bus to a nearby CVS to shop.

“Last I saw her, she was going down the stairs. And I said, ‘OK, see you later,’ And that’s the last time I saw her,” John told the station.

According to Goods’ family, she was later seen at a store near Paradise and Flamingo roads, where she purchased supplements and water. Kristen said she did not personally view the CVS surveillance footage but spoke with the store manager about her mother’s visit.

“I did not see the CVS footage myself, but I was privy to some of the footage,” Kristen said. “By talking to the CVS manager that she was there.”

John contacted Goods’ family the evening she disappeared and filed a missing-person report two days later, according to FOX5 Las Vegas.

Although the family initially had questions about John, they do not consider him a suspect. Authorites do not believe he is a suspect either. 

“To us, he is not a threat, and he’s also been cleared by the police,” Kristen told the station. “There isn’t anything to investigate in terms of his knowledge.”

Kristen also expressed frustration over the lack of additional clues from surveillance footage throughout the area.

“I’m extremely frustrated because I would think that this town would have so much more surveillance because it’s such a bustling area,” Kristen said. “I would think that there was a way for facial recognition to be able to locate someone.”

The family believes Goods may not have been able to travel very far on foot because she recently underwent several leg surgeries that have made walking for extended periods difficult.

Police searched within a 20-mile radius of the location where Goods was last seen, according to FOX5. Her relatives have also distributed flyers throughout the area in hopes that someone will recognize her.

The family received suspicious messages after Alisa Goods went missing in Las Vegas.

During an Aug. 18 interview with NBC News’ Erin McLaughlin, Goods’ relatives said they had received a series of unusual text messages from her phone after she disappeared. The family believes someone may have been impersonating Goods.

The messages reportedly claimed that her bank card had stopped working and that she needed money, including bitcoin payments.

“Do you know how to send using the bitcoin on Cash App? That’s the only way I can get it out,” one message reads, according to a screenshot the family shared with NBC News. “I’ll send you the Bitcoin wallet.”

When Alana Calloway, Goods’ niece, asked her aunt to call her, the person responding to the texts allegedly said they were at a gas station and could not talk.

“I just started crying, because I knew it wasn’t her,” Calloway told NBC News.

Calloway said the response immediately raised concerns because her aunt does not drive.

Goods’ son also received a call that the family believes came from someone impersonating his missing mother. He recorded part of the conversation and shared it with NBC News.

During the call, he asked the woman to video chat with him.

“My phone is bad,” she said. “I’m gonna call you as soon as I get my phone.”

When he asked where she was, she reportedly responded, “Home.” The call ended as he continued asking for an address.

The family said they turned the suspicious messages and calls over to Las Vegas police. Calloway said relatives have been frustrated by what they perceive as delays in the investigation. According to Calloway, one officer allegedly told her:

“‘We have a lot of things going on and right now she is just not a priority.’”

Police spokesperson Aden Ocampo told NBC News that, based on the investigation so far, Goods has been classified as a missing adult and there is “nothing to suggest she is in danger.”

Ocampo said investigators believe the calls, text messages and bitcoin requests could be the result of “spoofing,” a tactic scammers use to falsify information displayed on a caller ID or otherwise disguise their identity.

For now, the search for Alisa Goods remains ongoing as her family continues to hope for information that could lead them to her.

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