The family of a woman from the Upper East Side of Manhattan who disappeared on a trip to Las Vegas is pleading for her safe return, according to Eyewitness News ABC7NY. Relatives say 63-year-old Alisa Goods was last seen on August 8 and has not been heard from since, and they are now publicly asking for help to bring her home.
According to her family, Goods left a friend's home to walk to a CVS pharmacy and never came back. The ordinary errand was the last known movement in a case that has since grown more alarming for the relatives trying to track her down from across the country.
The family says the friend she had been staying with did not file a missing persons report for two days after she vanished. That delay, they told the station, cost precious time at the very start of the search for the 63-year-old.
Even after the report was filed, relatives say it took another four days before a detective began to look into the case. Goods's niece described her frustration at how slowly the investigation seemed to move in those early days.
The niece recounted reaching out to the detective, only to be told that her aunt was not a priority. "How could a person go missing in your city while visiting on vacation and she not be a priority?" she asked, describing her disbelief. "We want to find her well and alive. We want her home."
The case took a more disturbing turn when, according to the niece, she called her aunt's phone and someone answered and then hung up. Soon after, she says, someone texted her claiming to be Goods and asked for Bitcoin, saying the money was needed to fix her phone.
Those messages have deepened the family's fear that something is seriously wrong, and they say many questions remain unanswered. For now the relatives are focused on keeping attention on the case, insisting that a woman visiting Las Vegas on vacation should not be allowed to slip through the cracks.