The mysterious death of a missing New York City grandmother whose body was found in a drainage ditch outside a Las Vegas airport has left her family with more questions than answers, heartbroken relatives said Saturday.
“Nobody knows nothing,” a sister of Alisa Goods, 63, told the Daily News. “(Alisa) doesn’t drive. How in the world does she wind up in some cotton-pickin’ airport?”
The sister, who did not wish to be named, confirmed that the Las Vegas police found Goods’ body near Harry Reid International Airport’s Terminal One parking garage around 1:45 a.m. Thursday.
Goods had been missing since Aug. 8 after she left a friend’s home east of the Las Vegas Strip to pick up iron pills at a nearby CVS.
This was Goods’ second trip to Vegas this year, her friend told KLAS.
During her absence, someone had used her phone to text her relatives, asking for cash and bitcoin, family members said.
After she vanished, relatives said a woman used Goods’ phone, identified herself as Alisa and asked, “Are you going to send money now?”
That person’s voice wasn’t familiar.
Relatives told KLAS in Las Vegas that the woman who called them said she was having problems with her credit cards at a gas station, which raised even more suspicions since Goods didn’t drive.
Now that her remains have been recovered, relatives want to know how Goods ended up at the airport. Goods didn’t have a car in Vegas and told her friend she was going to take the bus to the CVS.
“Someone took her (to the airport)!” her sister said. “She had already went to (her friend’s) house. She had already went to the house. How did she get back there to the airport?”
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Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. (Shutterstock)
Family members said Goods, a grandmother of five, was born and raised in New Jersey but had moved to New York City. Relatives told ABC Eyewitness News that she lived on the Upper East Side.
“For our family, this is a devastating loss,” the family wrote in a GoFundMe post. “After the uncertainty and anguish of not knowing where she was, we are now faced with the painful reality of saying goodbye and making arrangements to honor her life and memory.”
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Alisa Goods, 63. (GoFundMe)
Surveillance footage recovered by Las Vegas police shows Goods falling down an embankment, getting back up and then collapsing on Aug. 8, after which she stopped moving, police said.
The Las Vegas Police have yet to release a cause of death.
Yet relatives feel someone is to blame.
“I just pray to god that whoever did this to her, that (the police) take the initiative and catch who did this to her,” she said.
