The household of a 63-year-old grandma from New York City who went missing during a travel to Las Vegas said they received texts from her telephone requesting Bitcoin payments.
Alisa Goods’ relatives are hopeless for answers. She was past seen Aug. 8 adjacent the 4900 artifact of South Maryland Parkway, according to a missing persons flyer from the Metropolitan Police Department.
“I’m feeling anxious. I’m feeling annoyed. I’m feeling angry. I’m confused. I’m hurt. There’s a full plethora of emotions that I’m feeling close now,” said Goods’ sister Mielle Stone. “She’s our superstar. We emotion her. We privation her home.”
Goods’ daughter, Kristen Goods, said her parent traveled to Las Vegas to walk clip with a bully person whom she’s known for much than 2 decades.
Goods was past seen astatine astir 1:40 p.m., according to the constabulary flyer, and was wearing achromatic Adidas sweatpants and a bluish denim jacket. She walks with a limp and uses a cane.
“All hospitals are asked to cheque their registries for the missing idiosyncratic and notify the constabulary immediately,” the flyer says.
Kristen Goods said Metro informed her that her parent made it to a CVS to cod her medication.
“That is wherever our lawsuit goes cold,” Kristen Goods said.
According to Kristen Goods, the person called Alisa Goods’ youngest sister, Janele, that nighttime to relay that Alisa had not returned. After consulting Janele, the person decided to record a constabulary study the adjacent day.
The person attempted to record a constabulary study Aug. 9, but the bureau had closed for non-emergencies. A missing persons study was filed Aug. 10.
“We knew erstwhile we couldn’t get her connected the telephone wrong those 2 days that thing had happened to her, and that she was successful imminent danger,” Kristen Goods said. “My ma is not immoderate 20-, 30-, oregon adjacent 40-something-year-old pistillate who would beryllium successful Vegas conscionable partying. That’s not her scenario.”
Mielle Stone and Kristen Goods said that connected Aug. 12, Alisa Goods’ niece received texts from her aunt’s telephone requesting Bitcoin payments. Kristen Goods provided screenshots of the substance messages.
“Huh? Are u trying to get state close present for the car?” the niece wrote successful a substance message. The fig responded, “Yes.”
Alisa Goods does not drive, nor did she rent a car portion visiting, a motion that it was not Goods texting from her phone, according to Stone and Kristen Goods.
The niece past received elaborate instructions from Goods’ fig connected however to nonstop Bitcoin done Cash App. The fig requested $40 astatine first, past aboriginal $50.
Growing progressively disquieted and frustrated with the deficiency of advancement implicit the phone, Kristen Goods flew to Las Vegas from the East Coast connected Monday. During her clip successful the city, she spoke with detectives, but said she did not larn thing caller astir her mother’s disappearance.
“My extremity was to travel to Las Vegas to springiness my parent a dependable due to the fact that I didn’t consciousness that we were getting anyplace by communicating conscionable by phone,” Kristen Goods said. “I had to springiness her a face, and that she has enactment down her that is truly acrophobic for her and looking for her.”
The household asked anyone with accusation astir Goods’ disappearance to interaction the Metropolitan Police Department. The Metro flyer besides urges anyone with accusation to interaction Metro astatine 702-828-3111, Metro’s Missing Persons Detail during concern hours astatine 702-828-2907 oregon by email astatine missingpersons@lvmpd.com.
“I privation to accent upon the nationalist that immoderate item means the satellite to america astatine this point,” Kristen Goods said.
Contact Kalohe Danbara astatine kdanbara@reviewjournal.com.
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