{"id":324990,"date":"2026-08-19T15:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324990\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:42:13","slug":"new-york-grandmother-vanishes-in-las-vegas-family-gets-bitcoin-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324990\/","title":{"rendered":"New York grandmother vanishes in Las Vegas, family gets Bitcoin texts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Days after a New York grandmother vanished without a trace while visiting <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583969\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/las-vegas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas<\/a>, her family says they began receiving chilling text messages from her phone asking for Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother of five, was reported missing Aug. 10, two days after she was last seen leaving a friend&#8217;s apartment near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue, according to her family and a missing person report obtained by <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583970\" href=\"https:\/\/www.8newsnow.com\/news\/local-news\/family-receives-mysterious-texts-after-woman-goes-missing-in-las-vegas\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KLAS-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">She never came back.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583971\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/wonderful-ca-nurse-mother-vanishes-going-casino-car-found-abandoned-mountain-park-family\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;WONDERFUL&#8217; CA NURSE AND MOTHER VANISHES AFTER GOING TO CASINO, CAR FOUND ABANDONED AT MOUNTAIN PARK: FAMILY<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alisa-goods-wings-fox-news_.jpg\" alt=\"Alisa Goods smiling in a photo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Days after Goods disappeared, her family says they started receiving text messages from her phone. (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;Last I saw her, she was going down the stairs. And I said, \u2018OK, see you later,\u2019 And that\u2019s the last time I saw her,&#8221; John told the station.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alisa-Goods-missing-poster.jpg\" alt=\"Alisa Goods missing person poster\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Alisa Goods has been missing since Aug. 8, according to her family. (Facebook\/Black and Missing, Inc.)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">John said he initially wasn&#8217;t alarmed because Goods sometimes spent hours out <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583972\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/retail\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">shopping<\/a>. When she didn&#8217;t return, he began calling and texting her without success and later contacted her family.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alisa-Goods-wings-3.jpg\" alt=\"Alisa Goods smiling in a photo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Goods&#8217; family says the text messages from her phone asked for gas money and Bitcoin. (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;This is not like her to just go missing,&#8221; Goods&#8217; niece, Alana Calloway, told the outlet. &#8220;She has a family that loves her, cares about her. We want her home and want her home safe and alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583973\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/scammers-exploit-nancy-guthrie-case-qr-code-money-requests-pima-county-sheriff-warns\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SCAMMERS EXPLOIT NANCY GUTHRIE CASE WITH QR CODE MONEY REQUESTS, PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF WARNS<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">On Aug. 12, Goods&#8217; family says messages started coming from her phone.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The person asked for gas money and Bitcoin, requests the family found suspicious because Goods doesn&#8217;t drive and didn&#8217;t have a car in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;I said, \u2018What do you need gas for? The car?\u2019 My aunt does not drive. There is no car,&#8221; Calloway told <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583974\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alisa-goods-missing-las-vegas-texts\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alisa-Goods-wings-2.jpg\" alt=\"Alisa Goods posing in a photo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Goods is a resident of New York and was visiting a friend in Las Vegas at the time she disappeared. (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The family says they still don\u2019t know who is <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583975\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/hi-mom-text-scam-how-to-spot-fake-emergency-texts\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">texting from Goods\u2019 phone<\/a>, raising the possibility that she had been kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;If they have her phone, there&#8217;s a possibility that they have her,&#8221; Calloway told the outlet. &#8220;I want to know that she&#8217;s OK and that she is alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The family has checked local hospitals, jails and the coroner&#8217;s office but has found no sign of Goods. Her daughter, Kristen, traveled to Las Vegas to help search for her.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583976\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/savannah-guthrie-desperate-plea-six-months-mom-nancy-missing-someone-knows-something\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SAVANNAH GUTHRIE MAKES DESPERATE PLEA SIX MONTHS AFTER MOM NANCY WENT MISSING: &#8216;SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;I am hoping to God for the best, but my heart can&#8217;t take what it could be, which is the worst,&#8221; Kristen Goods told the station.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alisa-Goods-wings-4.jpg\" alt=\"Alisa Goods smiling in a photo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Goods&#8217; family raised the possibility of a kidnapping when speaking to news outlets. (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_9583977\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Metropolitan Police<\/a> (LVMPD) told CBS News that Goods&#8217; missing person case remains active and asked anyone with information to contact investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Fox News Digital has reached out to LVMPD but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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