Body of Missing New York Grandmother Discovered Near Las Vegas Airport

Authorities in Las Vegas discovered the body of Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother of five from New York, near Harry Reid International Airport on Thursday, ending a search that began when she disappeared Aug. 10. Police responded to a report of a deceased woman in a drainage ditch area near Wayne Newton Boulevard and the Terminal 1 parking garage early that morning, where officers identified and pronounced Goods dead at the scene.

Goods had last been seen leaving the apartment of longtime friend Roger John around 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 8 near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue, stating she intended to travel by bus to a nearby CVS pharmacy to purchase iron supplements. When she failed to return that evening, John began attempting to contact her before alerting her family members to her absence.

Surveillance footage reviewed by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police depicted a woman believed to be Goods near the airport on the afternoon of Aug. 8, with additional video appearing to show her falling down an embankment, rising, and then collapsing, with no subsequent movement recorded thereafter. The circumstances surrounding how she came to be in the drainage ditch remain under investigation.

The case took an unusual turn when Goods’ family reported receiving text messages from her phone on Aug. 12, four days after her last confirmed sighting. The sender requested gas money and Bitcoin—demands the family found suspicious given that Goods did not drive and owned no vehicle while in Las Vegas, prompting initial concerns she may have been abducted.

“This is an unimaginable time,” Goods’ niece Alana Calloway said in a statement Friday. “Words cannot describe the pain our family is experiencing right now. We are still trying to learn the details surrounding her death.”