Las Vegas police say Alisa Goods was found dead after surveillance video showed the 63-year-old falling down an embankment near Harry Reid Airport and collapsing on August 8. Her family confirmed on Friday that the New York woman, who had traveled to Las Vegas for a vacation, was the missing person they had spent days searching for.
The discovery gives a painful answer to a search that had stretched across Southern Nevada and back to New York. Goods had disappeared on Sunday, Aug. 16, and her family said they were alarmed when she missed her flight home. They traveled to Las Vegas, handed out flyers and pleaded for help in locating her, while a fundraiser was set up to help with burial costs.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said dispatch received a call for service at 1:45 a.m. on Thursday about a woman found dead in a drainage ditch near Wayne Newton Boulevard and the Terminal 1 parking garage at Harry Reid Airport. Early investigators identified the woman as Goods after reviewing the scene, and police said the location could not be seen from the street, which made the discovery harder to make from outside the airport area.
That timeline is where the case turns uneasy. Police said the video shows Goods falling, getting back up and then collapsing on August 8, with no movement after that. Her family, meanwhile, said she was last seen on Sunday afternoon near East Harmon Avenue and Koval Lane before she disappeared on Sunday, Aug. 16. Those accounts do not line up cleanly, and the gap is now part of the story investigators still have to explain.
What has been released does not yet answer the most important question: what caused Goods to fall and die near the airport. For now, the confirmed facts are limited to her being found dead, the surveillance footage that appears to capture the fall, and the decision by her family to keep pushing for answers even after the search ended in grief.
