{"id":325810,"date":"2026-08-20T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325810\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:52:09","slug":"family-of-missing-nyc-grandma-alisa-goods-forced-to-check-morgues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325810\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of missing NYC grandma Alisa Goods forced to check morgues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anguished family of a Brooklyn grandmother who went missing two weeks ago on a trip to Las Vegas has taken desperate measures to locate her, including checking local morgues for her body.<\/p>\n<p>Alisa Goods, 63, was in town visiting a longtime friend when she left his apartment near the Las Vegas Strip the afternoon of Aug. 8 to pick up a few items at a CVS pharmacy and hasn\u2019t been seen since.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas Metro Police now consider her disappearance a missing person case, and have conducted a search within a 20-mile radius of her last known location near East Flamingo and Paradise roads.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7890625;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40426007\" width=\"466\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/anguished-family-brooklyn-grandmother-went-137971843.jpg\" alt=\"Alisa Goods smiling for a selfie while sitting on a bus.\" class=\"wp-image-40426007\"\/>Brooklyn grandmother Alisa Goods, 63, went missing after leaving an apartment near the Las Vegas Strip on Aug. 8 in Las Vegas. FOX5<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extremely worried,\u201d her daughter, Kristen, who flew into town from New Jersey hoping to find her missing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/08\/20\/family-pleads-help-finding-missing-new-york-grandmother-last-seen-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mother told<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/08\/20\/family-pleads-help-finding-missing-new-york-grandmother-last-seen-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fox 5 Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have checked hospitals,\u201d Kristen said. \u201cWe have checked morgues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goods\u2019 family said it was \u201cnot like her\u201d to go missing and grew increasingly concerned after her disconnected cell phone started sending messages to family members.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected imposter in possession of her phone claimed to be at a gas station and that her credit card was working in a text exchange with Goods\u2019 niece, Alana Calloway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Well, okay, I can send you money for gas. How much do you want me to send you?\u2019\u201d Calloway <a href=\"https:\/\/myfox8.com\/national\/family-receives-mysterious-texts-after-woman-goes-missing-in-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/myfox8.com\/national\/family-receives-mysterious-texts-after-woman-goes-missing-in-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fox 8<\/a>. \u201cThen they wanted the bitcoin. And then I said, \u2018Well, hold on. Let me get Kelly to help.\u2019 We have nobody in our family named Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she believes Goods would have asked who Kelly was had it been her on the other end of the phone.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41828255;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40426013\" width=\"837\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/daughter-kristen-anguished-family-brooklyn-137971841.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen, daughter of missing Brooklyn grandmother Alisa Goods, talking to the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-40426013\"\/>Goods\u2019 daughter, Kristen, said they\u2019ve \u201cchecked hospitals\u201d and \u201chave checked morgues\u201d for Goods. FOX5<\/p>\n<p>Goods\u2019 friend, Roger John, whom she usually stays with in Sin City and has known for 20 years, called her \u201cthe nicest person you would meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her concerned friend, who police said is not a suspect in her disappearance, has been posting flyers with her picture on around the area where she vanished.<\/p>\n<p>The family said Goods had recently undergone several leg surgeries, which would make it impossible for her to get far on foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The anguished family of a Brooklyn grandmother who went missing two weeks ago on a trip to Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,15476,6966,7373,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-325810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-grandparents","tag-las-vegas","tag-missing-persons","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}