Overview
- Alisa Goods, 63, vanished while visiting a friend in Las Vegas after she left the friend’s apartment to go to a store on August 8.
- Her family began receiving suspicious texts from her phone around August 12 that first asked for Cash App payments and later requested Bitcoin.
- A body matching Goods was discovered near Terminal 1 at Harry Reid International Airport on Thursday and her family has confirmed it is her.
- Las Vegas police say the friend she was staying with is not a suspect and officials are examining airport surveillance and phone forensics while the investigation remains active.
- Family members say Goods had recent leg surgeries that could limit her mobility, they have criticized the early pace of the search, and investigators are treating the cryptocurrency requests as a digital lead that could reflect fraud or trafficking tactics.