The body of Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother from Brooklyn, New York, was found Thursday in a drainage ditch near a parking structure at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Friday.
Body found near Las Vegas airport identified preliminarily as missing New York grandmother
The body of Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother from Brooklyn, New York, was found Thursday in a drainage ditch near a parking structure at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Friday.
Security camera footage from Aug. 8 — the day Goods' family said she went missing — showed her falling down an embankment and collapsing near Wayne Newton Boulevard, adjacent to the airport, police said. Her body was not visible from the roadway.
Someone called to report the body, prompting its discovery, police said. The department noted the identification of the remains was preliminary and that the cause and manner of death were not yet available.
Goods' niece, Alana Calloway, said her aunt had been visiting a friend in Las Vegas and was on her way to a pharmacy before she disappeared.
After Goods' disappearance, relatives received texts from her phone number asking for help in the form of bitcoin or a CashApp transfer, her family said. Police said they believe those messages may have come from scammers using 'spoofing' technology to impersonate Goods' number, and said they did not believe Goods had been in danger at the time of the texts.
- The source does not state the official cause or manner of Goods' death.
- The source does not confirm the identity of the remains beyond a preliminary determination.
- The source does not state when the body was formally discovered relative to when the call was made Thursday.
- The source does not state whether any investigation into the alleged spoofing texts is ongoing or whether suspects have been identified.
- The source does not identify the friend Goods was visiting in Las Vegas.