Alisa Goods missing in Las Vegas as family reports texts from her phone
Relatives say messages arrived days after Alisa Goods vanished, but her whereabouts and the sender’s identity remain unknown.
By Sal Moretti · Money Reporter
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The search for Alisa Goods missing Las Vegas has taken a troubling turn after relatives said they received messages from the 63-year-old’s phone days after she was reported missing. The family said the sender asked for Bitcoin, but there is no confirmation that Goods wrote the texts or who did.
Goods was visiting Las Vegas and staying with a friend, Roger John, according to her family. In an Aug. 15 report, 8 News Now said a missing-person report provided by the family stated that Goods was last seen on Aug. 8 leaving an apartment near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue.
She was headed to catch a bus to a CVS near Paradise Road and Harmon Avenue to buy iron pills, the report said. John told 8 News Now he last saw Goods leave at about 12:45 p.m. that day.
When was Alisa Goods last seen in Las Vegas?
Goods was last reported seen around 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 8, when she left John’s apartment near Maryland and Tropicana, according to John and the family-provided missing-person report cited by 8 News Now. John said he filed a report with Las Vegas Metro Police on Aug. 10 after she did not return.
Before the later messages appeared, John and Goods’ relatives said her phone seemed disconnected and could not receive calls or texts.
What did the texts from Goods’ phone say?
Goods’ family said messages began arriving from her phone on Aug. 12. Her niece, Alana Calloway, told 8 News Now that the person messaging claimed to be having trouble with credit cards and was at a gas station.
Calloway said she repeatedly asked the person to call because of an emergency, but the request was avoided. When she offered money for gas, she said the sender sought payment in Bitcoin.
The family became suspicious, Calloway said, because Goods had no car during her Las Vegas visit. Calloway also told the sender that a person named Kelly could help send money; she said there is no Kelly in the family and that Goods would have questioned the name.
Those details are relatives’ accounts, not findings by investigators. The supplied reporting does not establish who sent the messages, where Goods was, or whether the texts were connected to her disappearance.
What has police confirmed?
8 News Now said it sought information from Las Vegas Metro Police for its Aug. 15 report but had not received a response by publication. The available reports contain no confirmed police update, explanation for the messages or resolution in Goods’ case.
CBS News also reported that Goods did not return from a drugstore trip and that her family began receiving texts from her phone. Her relatives have asked anyone with information to contact Metro Police.
This story draws on original reporting from CBS News.