A 63-year-old New York grandmother who vanished during a Las Vegas visit was found dead in a drainage ditch near Harry Reid International Airport nearly two weeks later, and mysterious texts requesting Bitcoin from her phone have raised more questions than police have answered.

Alisa Goods left a friend's apartment near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue around 12:45 p.m. on August 8, headed to catch a bus to a nearby CVS to buy iron pills. She never came back. Her longtime friend Roger John, who she was staying with, began calling and texting her that same day. When she didn't respond, he contacted her family back in New York.

Two days later, on August 10, Goods was formally reported missing. Then came the texts.

Strange messages from a dead woman's phone

On August 12, four days after Goods disappeared, her family started receiving unusual text messages from her phone. The messages included requests for gas money and Bitcoin. Her niece, Alana Calloway, immediately recognized something was wrong. Calloway told CBS News that the requests made no sense for her aunt:

"I said, 'What do you need gas for? The car?' My aunt does not drive. There is no car."

The texts bore none of the hallmarks of a 63-year-old grandmother of five reaching out for help. Someone was using her phone, but it wasn't her. Breitbart reported that police attributed the suspicious messages to unrelated "bad actors" who had found Goods' phone. That detail alone raises a grim set of follow-up questions: Where did they find it? Did they encounter Goods herself? And why did it take nearly two weeks for anyone to locate her body in a drainage ditch beside one of the busiest airports in the country?

Cases like this one, where families are left waiting for answers while authorities piece together a timeline, have become painfully familiar. In Arizona, human remains found in the desert were eventually ruled out as belonging to another missing woman, Nancy Guthrie, a reminder of how agonizing and uncertain these searches can be.

Surveillance footage shows Goods collapsing on August 8

Early Thursday morning, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department did not provide an exact date, but the family's announcement came Friday, a caller reported a deceased woman in a drainage ditch near Wayne Newton Boulevard and the Terminal 1 parking garage at Harry Reid International Airport. Officers responded, located the body, and identified her as Alisa Goods. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police reviewed surveillance footage from August 8, the day Goods vanished. The footage appeared to show her falling down an embankment, getting back up, and then collapsing. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said there was "no further movement observed after that," and noted that "her location could not be seen from the street." Additional footage from the same afternoon showed a woman believed to be Goods near the airport.

The New York Post reported that the body was found around 1:45 a.m. Thursday near Terminal 1. Goods had been missing for nearly two weeks.

The cause of death has not been released. Police have not said whether they consider the death suspicious, accidental, or undetermined. No autopsy results have been made public. No suspects or persons of interest have been named.

For families who have endured similar ordeals, the lack of answers compounds the grief. Savannah Guthrie spent five months pleading for answers after her mother was abducted from a Tucson home, a case that underscored how slowly the machinery of justice can move when a loved one disappears.

A grandmother of five who walked out for iron pills and never returned

Goods, 63, was a grandmother of five from New York. She was visiting Las Vegas to stay with Roger John, described as a longtime friend. His apartment sat near the intersection of Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue, not far from the Las Vegas Strip. The CVS she was headed to was close enough to reach by bus.

John told KLAS-TV that the last time he saw her was unremarkable, the kind of goodbye no one remembers until they have to.

"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."

Before the body was found, Calloway had spoken publicly about how out of character the disappearance was. She told KLAS-TV that her aunt was not someone who would simply vanish.

"This is not like her to just go missing. She has a family that loves her, cares about her. We want her home and want her home safe and alive."

That hope ended Friday, when the family announced the news. In other cases where loved ones have been found under disturbing circumstances, the discovery itself sometimes raises as many questions as it answers. A Georgia man died of a heart attack while dumping a body in Alabama woods, a case that only came to light because of the bizarre chain of events surrounding the discovery.

Calloway's statement captures a family left without answers

Calloway provided a statement to KTNV after learning her aunt had been found:

"Our hearts are broken. We were notified that my aunt was found, unfortunately, not the way we wanted her to be. This is an unimaginable time. Words cannot describe the pain our family is experiencing right now. We just want to thank the public for the outpouring of love, support, and prayers. We also want to thank the media for helping bring attention to this situation. This hurts so deeply. We are still trying to learn the details surrounding her death. We ask for continued prayers and privacy as we grieve."

Fox News Digital reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for additional information. As of the report's publication, no response had been provided.

The family's statement makes clear they still do not know what happened. They do not know how Goods ended up in a drainage ditch near an airport instead of at a CVS buying iron pills. They do not know who used her phone to ask for Bitcoin. They do not know whether anyone encountered her between the moment she left that apartment and the moment she collapsed on camera.

Unresolved missing-person cases exact a particular toll on families, who are often left navigating grief and uncertainty at the same time. A veteran investigator in the Guthrie case pointed to how vulnerable individuals can become targets, a dynamic that deserves scrutiny here as well, given the suspicious texts sent from Goods' phone.

Unanswered questions that deserve answers

The known timeline raises serious concerns. Goods left an apartment at 12:45 p.m. on August 8. Surveillance footage shows a woman believed to be her near the airport that same afternoon, miles from the CVS she said she was going to. That footage then shows her falling, rising, and collapsing in a spot hidden from the street. She lay there, apparently undiscovered, for days.

Meanwhile, someone picked up her phone and started sending texts asking for gas money and cryptocurrency. Police have attributed those messages to opportunistic strangers, "bad actors", but have not explained how those individuals came into possession of the phone, or whether they had any contact with Goods.

No cause of death has been released. No classification of the death, suspicious, accidental, or otherwise, has been made public. No autopsy results have been shared with the family or the press. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has not responded to media inquiries seeking clarification.

A 63-year-old grandmother walked out of an apartment to buy vitamins and ended up dead in a ditch near an airport runway, unseen from the street, for close to two weeks. Her phone ended up in the hands of strangers who used it to solicit Bitcoin from her grieving family. The people who are paid to protect and investigate owe that family, and the public, a full accounting of what happened.