Alysha Hanin: My mum vanished from Miami Beach in 2002 when I was three. I’m in Miami now, asking anyone who was around back then.
Last one taken down, had to prove involvement.
My mum went missing from Miami Beach on 6 January 2002. She was 24. I was three, back in New Zealand with my grandmother.
Her name was Alysha Hanin, though plenty of people knew her as Krsangi, and some as Yami. She grew up in California and had been living in Miami Beach about three years by then and had got her US citizenship the year before. She'd flown over for six weeks and she was due home.
She was last seen in the early hours at the Shore Club on Collins. She left to go and get something to eat and that was it.
Everything stayed behind. Passport, luggage, purse, ID, bank cards, her phone. There was about $7,000 in her accounts that nobody ever touched. She wasn't reported missing for three weeks.
I'm 27 now. She's never called my grandmother, never called me, in 24 years. She used to ring home every day or two when she was away.
The case is still open. Miami Beach PD 2002-3368, NamUs MP19635.
I'm in Miami at the moment. First time. I've come over to talk to people who knew her and to put what we've found in front of the authorities.
So I'm just asking. If you were around South Beach in late 2001 or early 2002, working the clubs or the hotels or the restaurants, driving a cab, living down there, you might have crossed paths with her without knowing it. Same if you knew her from the Hare Krishna community, in California, LA or back in New Zealand.
I'm not asking anyone to solve anything, just some curious people that may be able to help the case.
There's more about her at findingalysha.com, and you can leave something there anonymously if you'd rather. Or Crime Stoppers, 305-471-TIPS.
I'll be in the comments.