By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2026-08-19 04:41:52 | Updated at 2026-08-19 04:57:21
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The family of a New York grandmother of five who vanished on a trip to Las Vegas say they have received unsettling texts from her phone.
Alisa Goods, 63, went missing on August 8 while traveling to visit her longtime friend Roger John, her family told 8NewsNow.
John said Goods left his apartment at around 12.45pm to take the bus to a nearby CVS but never returned, according to the outlet.
Goods was reported missing last Monday, only for her family to receive disturbing text messages from her phone two days later.
The text messages purportedly from Goods demanded that her niece, Alana Calloway, send her Bitcoin.
The messages also noted that she was at a gas station, which raised alarms within the family as she had not traveled with a car.
Kristen Goods, Alisa's daughter, said she was 'hoping to God for the best' but acknowledged a possible tragedy roughly ten days into the disappearance.
'My heart can't take what it could be, which is the worst,' Kristen told CBS News on Tuesday.
New York grandmother of five Alisa Goods, 63, went missing on August 8 in Las Vegas and has not been found
A phone belonging to Goods (front) texted her family last Wednesday and began asking for Bitcoin
Goods was visiting Las Vegas for the second time this year, according to her friend Roger John, with whom she was staying
Calloway said she responded to the texts asking why her supposed grandma needed money for at the gas station.
She believes Goods may have been kidnapped, and that the messages sent on her phone suggested 'a possibility that they have her.'
'I want to know that she's okay and that she is alive,' Calloway told the outlet.
Goods' friend John had told 8NewsNow that Goods she on her second visit to Las Vegas this year and that he 'didn't think much' when she was not at his home.
'Sometimes she’d go out and she’d shop,' he told the outlet. 'And I kept texting and calling and texting and calling.'
A missing persons poster described Goods as being 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds with short black and gray hair, as well as brown eyes. She was said to walk with a cane.
Calloway said she has been calling Goods' cellphone repeatedly while waiting to hear back from law enforcement.
'So I called her again, and someone picked up, but they didn't say anything,' she told the outlet. 'Then they hung up.'
Goods had retired after a career in childcare and was living on the Upper East Side in Manhattan
A missing persons poster for Goods said was 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds, and noted that she used a cane to walk
That changed last Wednesday when Calloway received messages from someone who identified themselves as Goods.
The person then started to ask for Bitcoin and texted, 'You didn't send the money.'
'Are you going to send it or not,' the person later added, according to the outlet.
When Callaway asked her supposed grandma to video call her, the other person insisted that the phone was 'bad.'
'This phone is a small phone and the camera doesn't work that's why I want to get my phone fixed and then I can send you a pic,' the texts said.
'She should send $50,' the phone number belonging to Goods responded.
Goods lived on the Upper East Side and was retired after a career in childcare, according to ABC7NY.
Her family members have now traveled to Las Vegas to talk to law enforcement in person.
The Daily Mail has reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for comment.
