Missing NYC Grandma Found Dead Near Vegas Airport
Missing NYC Grandma Found Dead Near Vegas Airport
The News
Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old Brooklyn grandmother who disappeared during a trip to Las Vegas, has been found dead near the city's airport after nearly two weeks missing.
Her body was found near Terminal 1 at Harry Reid International Airport at about 1:45 a.m. Thursday, according to KTNV, whose reporting was cited by the New York Post.
Police have not released a cause or manner of death, and have not explained how Goods ended up at the airport.
Timeline
Goods is last seen leaving the Las Vegas apartment of a longtime friend she was visiting, saying she was going to shop at a CVS. She does not return.
Surveillance footage captures a woman believed to be Goods near the airport the same day she vanished.
Her family, unable to reach her, files a missing persons report.
Someone uses Goods' phone to ask for money, then for Bitcoin.
Goods is found dead near Terminal 1 at Harry Reid International Airport, 13 days after she was last seen.
Reactions
Goods' family asked in a statement for privacy while they grieve and continue to seek answers about what happened to her.
Relatives had pointed out during the search that Goods recently had leg surgery, which limited how far she could walk on her own — a detail that made her turning up near the airport harder to explain.
Roger John, the friend of nearly two decades she was visiting in Las Vegas, has not been named a suspect. He helped hand out flyers during the search.
What's Next
Las Vegas police say they are actively investigating the circumstances of Goods' death.
The open questions: why she was near Harry Reid International Airport on the day she disappeared, who sent the messages from her phone demanding money and Bitcoin, and what the official cause and manner of death turn out to be.
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The case drew attention well before Thursday because of the phone messages. For nearly two weeks, a woman with limited mobility was unaccounted for in an unfamiliar city while a stranger used her device to solicit cash and cryptocurrency from the people looking for her.
Coverage of the case has come from the New York Post, TMZ and The Root, with the discovery of the body first reported by Las Vegas station KTNV.
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