Overview
- Alisa Goods, 63, left a friend’s apartment in Las Vegas on Aug. 8 to go to a nearby CVS and did not return, according to her family and the friend who last saw her.
- Her family filed a missing-person report on Aug. 10 and say the case remains open with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, which is urging anyone with tips to contact investigators.
- In the days after the report, Goods’ phone number began sending texts and answering calls that asked for gas money and bitcoin and included details the family says do not match her circumstances.
- Family members have searched hospitals, jails and the coroner’s office, posted flyers, and traveled to Las Vegas to press for leads while criticizing what they call a slow early response from police.
- Experts and the family note that requests for cryptocurrency are a common tactic by scammers or traffickers because crypto transfers are hard to reverse and can hide the receiver, so public tips and digital-phone forensics are now key to the investigation.