New York Grandmother Found Dead in Las Vegas Drainage Ditch After Cryptic Bitcoin Messages

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• Alisa Goods, 63-year-old grandmother of five from New York, was found dead in a drainage ditch near Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday
• She was last seen alive on August 8 leaving a friend’s apartment to buy iron pills at CVS but never returned
• Family received suspicious text messages from her phone four days after her disappearance requesting gas money and Bitcoin, neither of which made sense for her circumstances

A New York grandmother who disappeared during a visit to Las Vegas earlier this month has been found dead near the city’s airport, ending a desperate two-week search that took a disturbing turn when her family received mysterious cryptocurrency requests from her phone.

Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother of five, was discovered Thursday morning in a drainage ditch near Wayne Newton Boulevard and the Terminal 1 parking garage at Harry Reid International Airport. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police responded to a call about a deceased woman in the area and later confirmed the body was Goods.

The heartbreaking discovery came 15 days after Goods was last seen leaving her friend’s apartment near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue on August 8. She had told her longtime friend Roger John she was taking a bus to a nearby CVS to purchase iron pills.

“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 local media.

“Our hearts are broken. We were notified that my aunt was found—unfortunately, not the way we wanted her to be,” Goods’ niece, Alana Calloway, said in a statement.

“This is an unimaginable time. Words cannot describe the pain our family is experiencing right now.”

Police reviewed surveillance footage that appeared to show Goods “falling down an embankment, getting back up and then collapsing” on August 8, the day she vanished. According to investigators, “no further movement observed after that.” Additional surveillance video from that day showed a woman believed to be Goods near the airport that afternoon.

The case took a sinister turn four days after her disappearance when her family began receiving unusual text messages from her phone on August 12. The sender allegedly requested gas money and Bitcoin—requests that immediately raised red flags because Goods did not drive and did not have a car in Las Vegas.

“I said, ‘What do you need gas for? The car?’ My aunt does not drive. There is no car,” Calloway told CBS News at the time.

The suspicious messages led the family to fear Goods may have been kidnapped. It remains unclear who sent the texts or whether foul play was involved in her death. The investigation is ongoing.

John said he was not immediately worried when Goods didn’t return because she sometimes spent hours shopping. However, as time passed without contact, he began calling and texting her before reaching out to her family to report her missing.

“This is not like her to just go missing,” Calloway said earlier in the search.

“She has a family that loves her, cares about her. We want her home and want her home safe and alive.”

The family thanked the public for their support during the search and asked for continued prayers and privacy as they grieve and await more details about the circumstances surrounding Goods’ death.

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