Alisa Goods found in Las Vegas after police reviewed airport surveillance video showing the 63-year-old falling down an embankment on August 8. Her family said Friday that she was found deceased after a search that began when she vanished during a vacation in Southern Nevada.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said dispatch received a call for service Thursday at 1:45 a.m. about a woman found dead in a drainage ditch near Wayne Newton Boulevard and the Terminal 1 parking garage at Harry Reid Airport. Police said the location could not be seen from the street, and early investigation identified the woman as Goods.
Harry Reid Airport surveillance
Police said video from the airport shows her fall down the embankment, get back up, and collapse on August 8. They said she did not move after collapsing. That sequence gives the search a fixed point in time and place: she was last visible on camera before the discovery near the airport roadway and parking area.
Goods had traveled to Las Vegas for a vacation, and her family said she was last seen on Sunday afternoon near East Harmon Avenue and Koval Lane. After she missed her flight back to New York, the family became increasingly concerned and traveled from New York to Las Vegas to spearhead the search.
Las Vegas search efforts
The family distributed flyers and pleaded with the public for help in locating her. Family members also set up a fundraiser to help with burial costs, a step that followed the Friday announcement that she had been found deceased.
The case now turns on a basic unanswered issue: the cause and manner of death have not yet been released. For the family, the search ended with a recovery near Harry Reid Airport; for everyone following the case, the remaining question is how the August 8 fall connects to what investigators found days later.
