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Days after a New York grandmother vanished without a trace while visiting Las Vegas, her family says they began receiving chilling text messages from her phone asking for Bitcoin.
Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother of five, was reported missing Aug. 10, two days after she was last seen leaving a friend’s apartment near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue, according to her family and a missing person report obtained by KLAS-TV.
Goods was staying with her longtime friend Roger John, who told the station she left his apartment around 12:45 p.m. Aug. 8 to take a bus to a nearby CVS to pick up iron pills.
She never came back.
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“Last I saw her, she was going down the stairs. And I said, ‘OK, see you later,’ And that’s the last time I saw her,” John told the station.
John said he initially wasn’t alarmed because Goods sometimes spent hours out shopping. When she didn’t return, he began calling and texting her without success and later contacted her family.
“This is not like her to just go missing,” Goods’ niece, Alana Calloway, told the outlet. “She has a family that loves her, cares about her. We want her home and want her home safe and alive.”
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On Aug. 12, Goods’ family says messages started coming from her phone.
The person asked for gas money and Bitcoin, requests the family found suspicious because Goods doesn’t drive and didn’t have a car in Las Vegas.
“I said, ‘What do you need gas for? The car?’ My aunt does not drive. There is no car,” Calloway told CBS News.
The family says they still don’t know who is texting from Goods’ phone, raising the possibility that she had been kidnapped.
“If they have her phone, there’s a possibility that they have her,” Calloway told the outlet. “I want to know that she’s OK and that she is alive.”
The family has checked local hospitals, jails and the coroner’s office but has found no sign of Goods. Her daughter, Kristen, traveled to Las Vegas to help search for her.
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“I am hoping to God for the best, but my heart can’t take what it could be, which is the worst,” Kristen Goods told the station.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (LVMPD) told CBS News that Goods’ missing person case remains active and asked anyone with information to contact investigators.
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