{"id":329002,"date":"2026-08-25T04:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329002\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T04:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:20:21","slug":"seeking-answers-to-news-3-viewer-questions-after-new-york-woman-found-dead-near-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329002\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking answers to News 3 viewer questions after New York woman found dead near airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Alisa Goods\u2019 family is still searching for answers about how the 63-year-old grandmother from New York ended up dead near Terminal 1<\/a> at Harry Reid International Airport, even after learning last week where she was found.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need them to tell me where my aunt is and what happened to her,\u201d said Alana Calloway, Goods\u2019 niece to News 3 last week<\/a> before Goods was found.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement is still investigating what happened to Goods. Questions also remain about how she got to the airport after she was last believed to have been at the CVS pharmacy at Harmon and Paradise.<\/p>\n

From the CVS parking lot to Terminal 1, the trip is about a five-minute drive, but more closely aligned with a 20-minute or more walk. The route is flat until reaching the Harry Reid sign at Tropicana, where it becomes a brief uphill ascent.<\/p>\n

Police have said surveillance video shows a woman falling down an embankment, getting back up and then collapsing on Aug. 8. Metro did not respond to an interview request.<\/p>\n

Attorney Kristopher Milicevic said Goods was \u201cclearly from out of town\u201d and that \u201cNew York is not the same as Las Vegas in so far as that this is not a very walkable city.\u201d He said there is extensive surveillance coverage in that area that could help investigators piece together what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot of surveillance coverage in that part of town so hopefully law enforcement will be able to go backwards and sort of put these pieces together,\u201d Milicevic said.<\/p>\n

Another question investigators and the family are trying to sort out is whether Goods lost her phone. Former FBI agent Greg Rogers said, \u201cThere are some questions there that need to be answered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goods\u2019 family began receiving text messages from Goods\u2019 old phone. Goods\u2019 son also received a call from a phone supposedly belonging to Goods, with a voice on the other line that he said did not sound like her.<\/p>\n

Metro told News 3 directly in a phone call that those attempts to make contact did not come from Goods\u2019 phone and were instead spoofed. The family, meanwhile, said Goods has two phones.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is highly likely that it was spoofed but not necessarily,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cThere is still some issue about who was making those texts from her phone to her family members and those. That is still something that needs to be looked into in a little more detail.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case has also raised questions about Metro\u2019s resources for missing persons investigations. Goods\u2019 daughter, Kristen Goods, said the family was told her mother was not considered a priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were told on more than one instance that she was not a priority,\u201d Kristen Goods said. \u201cIf she had no mental health issues or had no debilitating issues that would make her an extreme case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recent data suggests Metro receives about 683 missing persons reports each month<\/a>. Rogers said missing persons units are typically small and must prioritize cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cMissing persons squads on police departments are usually, relatively small. They do work those cases but because there are so many, they prioritize them,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cSo when they come in, certain cases go to the top of the stack, other ones go down in the middle. And if you are down in the middle or the bottom, you are not getting looked at really strenuously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Milicevic also said not every case warrants a press conference, arguing it can create problems for investigators.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons that Metro does not do press conferences in these kinds of cases, especially where there are no red flags, is they do not want strange people coming out of the woodwork and sending in false leads,\u201d Milicevic said.<\/p>\n

If you have information on the case, the family is urging people to contact the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Alisa Goods\u2019 family is still searching for answers about how the 63-year-old grandmother from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-329002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329002","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=329002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}