The family of Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother of five from Manhattan, has reported receiving unsettling text messages from her phone since her disappearance on August 8 in Las Vegas. Goods was visiting her longtime friend Roger John when she left his apartment to go to a nearby CVS and never returned.
Two days after she was reported missing, Goods' family began receiving texts from her phone demanding Bitcoin. The messages also stated she was at a gas station, a detail that caused alarm as she had not traveled to Las Vegas with a car. Her niece, Alana Calloway, responded to the texts, questioning the mention of a gas station. Calloway believes her aunt may have been kidnapped, and the messages suggest she might be held by others.
"I want to know that she's okay and that she is alive," Calloway told 8NewsNow. When asked why she needed money for a gas station, the texts indicated the phone was faulty, stating, "This phone is a small phone and the camera doesn't work that's why I want to get my phone fixed and then I can send you a pic." The person texting insisted that Goods should send $50.
Calloway attempted to video call the number, but the person on the other end refused, citing the phone's condition. She also reported calling Goods' cellphone multiple times, and on one occasion, someone picked up but remained silent before hanging up. Goods, who lived on the Upper East Side and retired after a career in childcare, was visiting Las Vegas for the second time this year. Her family has since traveled to Las Vegas to work with law enforcement.
Missing persons posters describe Goods as being 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds, with short black and gray hair and brown eyes. She is known to walk with a cane. Her daughter, Kristen Goods, expressed a grim outlook approximately ten days into the disappearance, stating, "My heart can't take what it could be, which is the worst."
