Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother of five, was reported missing on Aug. 10 after she was last seen two days earlier while visiting Las Vegas. Her family is now trying to piece together where she went after leaving a friend’s apartment and why text messages later appeared to come from her phone.
Kristen Goods came from New Jersey to Nevada to help look for her mother, saying the family has already checked hospitals and morgues. “I’m extremely worried,” she said. The search has stretched across state lines because the family has gone nearly two weeks without a verified answer about what happened after Aug. 8.
Roger John, a longtime friend who had been hosting Goods, said she left his apartment around 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 8 to catch a bus to a nearby CVS and go shopping. He said, “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.”
The family’s account does not fit neatly with that timeline. Goods’ relatives say they later received text messages from her phone asking for gas money and Bitcoin, and they also said she was later seen at a store near Paradise and Flamingo roads, where she bought supplements and water. Kristen Goods said she did not see CVS surveillance video herself, but she spoke with the store manager about her mother’s visit.
That leaves the central question unresolved: if Goods left on Aug. 8, who sent the messages that appeared to come from her phone, and what happened in the hours and days before she was reported missing on Aug. 10? For now, the answer is still buried somewhere in the gap between the last confirmed sighting and the messages that followed.
