NY grandmother disappears in Las Vegas, then her family starts getting suspicious texts
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The family of 63-year-old Alisa Goods says the messages are unlike her and fears someone else may have her phone.
A New York family is searching for answers after 63-year-old Alisa Goods disappeared while visiting Las Vegas — and then began receiving mysterious messages from her phone asking for money and bitcoin.
Goods, a grandmother of five, traveled from New York to Las Vegas to visit a longtime friend. According to CBS News, she left the friend’s apartment on Aug. 8 to take a bus to a nearby CVS and never returned.
She was reported missing two days later.
Then, on Aug. 12, her family began receiving messages from her phone, as shared via MyFox8.
The texts asked for help with gas money and later requested bitcoin. But the requests immediately raised questions for Goods’ relatives because, as her niece Alana Calloway pointed out, Goods does not drive.
“I said, ‘What do you need gas for? The car?’ My aunt does not drive. There is no car,” Calloway told CBS News.
Calloway said she became increasingly convinced that someone else was using Goods’ phone. She tried to determine whether the person sending the messages was actually her aunt, but the responses only heightened her concerns.
At one point, the person texting referenced someone named Kelly — a name Calloway said nobody in the family recognizes.
“That was alarming,” Calloway said. “Every time the person texts back, it just felt like my heart was in my stomach because I knew it wasn’t my aunt.”
Goods’ son, Keven Newton, also received unusual messages seeking money.
The family has considered the possibility that Goods could have been kidnapped, although authorities have not publicly said that she was abducted. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police say her missing-person case remains active and are asking anyone with information to contact investigators.
Meanwhile, Goods’ family has contacted hospitals, jails and the coroner’s office in an effort to locate her. Her daughter, Kristen Goods, has traveled to Las Vegas to help search for her mother.
“She is still out there, and we’re looking for her,” Kristen told CBS News. “We want her home. We want her back.”
For the family, the unanswered messages have only added another layer of uncertainty to an already frightening disappearance.