New York Grandmother Found Dead After Family Receives Mysterious Bitcoin Texts

Officers responded shortly before 2 a.m. on Thursday after someone reported finding a woman in the drainage area. Police later identified her as Goods.

Kelly McBride Ni

Published: 8/21/2026, 11:14:44 PM EDT

New York Grandmother Found Dead After Family Receives Mysterious Bitcoin Texts — Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, near Terminal 1, is shown in a Google Maps image. (Google Maps)

A 63-year-old New York woman who disappeared during a trip to Las Vegas was found dead near the city’s airport nearly two weeks after going missing and after her family began receiving unsettling messages from her phone requesting money and bitcoin.

Alisa Goods was found early Thursday in a drainage ditch near Wayne Newton Boulevard and the Terminal 1 parking garage at Harry Reid International Airport, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Friday, according to media reports. The Clark County coroner had not released Goods’ cause or manner of death as of Friday evening.

Goods’ daughter, Kristen Goods, confirmed her mother’s death in a statement posted on a GoFundMe page established to help the family with funeral, burial, transportation, and travel expenses.

“It is with profound sadness that we share the heartbreaking news that our beloved mother, Alisa Goods, has been found and has passed away,” the family said in the statement.

Officers responded shortly before 2 a.m. on Thursday after someone reported finding a woman in the drainage area. Police later identified her as Goods.

Airport surveillance footage from Aug. 8 showed Goods fall down an embankment, get back up, and then collapse, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told KTNV. Police said she did not move again and could not be seen from the street.

Goods had been visiting a longtime friend in Las Vegas when she left his home Aug. 8 to take a bus to a nearby CVS, according to her family. She never returned and was reported missing two days later on Aug. 10.

The case took an alarming turn on Aug. 12 when her family began receiving messages from Goods’ phone asking for help, gas money, and bitcoin. Her niece, Alana Calloway, said during a televised CBS News interview that the request for gas money immediately raised concerns because Goods did not drive.

“I said, ‘What do you need gas for? The car?’ My aunt does not drive. There is no car,” Calloway said. The text messages came in two days after Goods was reported missing.

Goods’ son later received a phone call from someone claiming to be his mother, and he recorded part of the conversation, according to a televised NBC New York interview with the family. Relatives said the voice was not Goods’ and that they provided the recording, text messages, and other information to Las Vegas police.

Calloway said that she feared her aunt might have been abducted. Authorities have not publicly announced any evidence that Goods was kidnapped or what happened.

NTD has reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for comment.

While Goods was missing, her daughter, Kristen Goods, traveled to Las Vegas as relatives contacted hospitals, jails, and the coroner’s office. She told CBS News her mother had undergone several surgeries that made walking difficult.

“Our mother was deeply loved, and her absence leaves a space in our family that can never be filled. We are doing our best to navigate this loss together and to celebrate the life she lived, the people she loved, and the memories she left with us,” the GoFundMe page states.