Alisa Goods Found Dead in Las Vegas After Nearly Two-Week Search, Family Says
The search for Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother from New York, has ended in tragedy after her family confirmed that she was found dead in Las Vegas nearly two weeks after she disappeared during a visit to the city.
Goods disappeared on August 8 while visiting a longtime friend in Las Vegas. According to information provided by her family and local news reports, she left her friend’s home that afternoon to go shopping at a nearby CVS and never returned.
Her body was discovered early Thursday near Terminal 1 at Harry Reid International Airport, bringing a heartbreaking end to a search that had involved family members, law enforcement and members of the public. Sources close to the case confirmed the discovery to KTNV Channel 13.
Las Vegas police officers responded to the airport area at approximately 1:45 a.m. after receiving a report that a body had been found. Authorities have not publicly released a cause or manner of death, and investigators are still working to determine what happened to Goods and how she ended up near the airport.
Goods had been staying with a longtime friend during her trip. Her family said she left the residence on August 8 to make a shopping trip. She was subsequently known to have visited a CVS near Paradise Road and East Harmon Avenue.
After that, her whereabouts became unclear.
The disappearance prompted an increasingly desperate search. Goods’ daughter, Kristen Goods, traveled from New Jersey to Nevada to help look for her mother. Family members said they checked hospitals and morgues and followed numerous leads as they attempted to determine where the grandmother had gone.
Goods was reported missing on August 10, two days after she was last seen. Her disappearance became even more alarming when relatives began receiving unusual messages from her phone.
According to reports, the messages requested assistance with money, gas and eventually Bitcoin. Family members said the messages did not sound like Goods and raised concerns that someone else could have been using her phone. Authorities later indicated that the suspicious messages appeared to have been sent by unrelated individuals who gained access to the phone and were not necessarily connected to Goods’ disappearance.
The unusual messages became one of the most troubling aspects of the case because they initially created uncertainty about whether Goods was communicating with her family.
Goods’ family also raised concerns about her ability to travel long distances on foot. Relatives said she had recently undergone leg surgeries, making her disappearance particularly difficult to understand.
Investigators later obtained surveillance footage from August 8 that reportedly showed a woman believed to be Goods near the airport that afternoon. That development provides an important potential clue about her movements after she left the CVS, although authorities have not publicly explained precisely what happened between her disappearance and the discovery of her body.
The circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear.
Goods was a grandmother of five, and her family has described the loss as devastating. Her niece, Alana Calloway, confirmed the discovery in a statement and thanked the public and media for helping bring attention to the disappearance.
“Our hearts are broken,” the family said in a statement, emphasizing that they were notified that Goods had been found but not in the way they had hoped. The family also said it was still trying to learn the details surrounding her death.
The discovery near Harry Reid International Airport means the case has now shifted from a missing-person investigation to an investigation into the circumstances of Goods’ death.
Authorities have not publicly announced that anyone has been arrested or identified as a suspect in connection with her death. Her longtime friend, whom she was visiting before she disappeared, had previously been described by family members as not being a suspect.
The latest developments leave several important questions unanswered, including how Goods traveled from the area of the CVS to the airport, what happened to her during the nearly two weeks she was missing and what caused her death.
For her family, however, the immediate priority is mourning a woman they spent nearly two weeks desperately trying to find.
The Alisa Goods found dead case remains under investigation, and authorities are expected to provide additional information as investigators work to reconstruct her final movements and determine the circumstances surrounding her death.
What began as a search for a missing New York grandmother has ended with a devastating discovery in Las Vegas, leaving Goods’ loved ones grieving while they wait for answers about what happened to her.
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