My mother · missing since January 6, 2002 · Miami Beach
Alysha
Hanin
known as Krsangi Senk · Yami Devi · Krsangi Devi
The story I grew up with is that my mother went out for food one night in Miami Beach in 2002 and never came back. I was three years old. I am not looking for comfort. I am looking for what happened to her. If you knew her, by any of her names, you may hold the part that has been kept from me.
Adrian Hoffmann, her son
Alysha, around the time she went missing.
She is still missing
Alysha has been gone for
She walked out for something to eat and never came back. Every second on this clock is time I have spent not knowing what happened to her.
The one thing that finds people
Put her face on one more screen.
Cases like my mother’s aren’t always cracked by investigators alone. They’re often solved by reach, by her face landing in front of the one person who remembers. I’ve made a 24-second video, a poster, and a ready-to-post story, so helping takes just seconds.
A letter to my mother
“The last time you saw me, I was three. You left me with my grandmother in New Zealand and went back to Miami to tie up loose ends. You said you were coming back. That promise became one of the first facts of my life.”
That is how my letter to her begins. I was the boy she left in New Zealand. I run this search now: the site, the tip line, all of it. The letter says what I need to say to her, and to anyone who might remember her.
Adrian, her son
Her life
This is my mother.
Not a case number. A daughter, a friend, a mum. I was too young to remember her. These photographs are how I know her.
The public record
What the record shows
In the early hours of January 6, 2002, Alysha is believed to have left the Shore Club, a hotel on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, at around 4:00 a.m., reportedly to buy something to eat. She never came back.
Her passport, luggage, purse, identification and credit cards were all found inside her hotel room. There has been no activity on her bank cards since the day she vanished. She was reported missing on January 27, 2002.
Alysha was known to travel between Los Angeles and Miami about once a month. Investigators have stated that foul play is suspected, because she has not contacted her family or friends in any way since she disappeared.
- Missing since
- January 6, 2002 · approximately 4:00 a.m.
- Missing from
- The Shore Club hotel, 1900 block of Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139
- Reported missing
- January 27, 2002
- Classification
- Endangered Missing
- Sex / Race
- White / Caucasian female
- Date of birth
- December 10, 1977
- Age when missing
- 24 years old
- Height
- 5′6″–5′7″ (66–67 in)
- Weight
- 120–130 lbs (54–59 kg)
- Hair
- Blond / strawberry
- Eyes
- Blue
- Distinguishing features
- Both ears pierced; left nostril pierced; a scar on the pad of the right index finger
- Jewelry
- A yellow stone ring set in gold
- Age now
- Would be 49 years old
How you can help
You don’t need to know what happened. You only need to remember something true.
- 01
Did you know Alysha, as Alysha, Krsangi, or Yami, in Miami, Los Angeles, or within the Hare Krishna community before 2002?
- 02
Were you at or near the Shore Club on Collins Avenue in early January 2002?
- 03
Do you remember seeing or hearing from her, anywhere, after January 6, 2002?
- 04
Do you have photographs, letters, or recordings in which she appears?
- 05
Did anyone you know ever speak about her disappearance, then or since?
Remember something?
Tell me now
The record, in order
Timeline
Alysha is born
Alysha Krsangi Hanin is born in India and grows up within the Hare Krishna community. Throughout her life, she is known by several names, including Krsangi, Yami and Alysha, a detail that may help connect memories or information about her.
She leaves her son in New Zealand
Weeks before she disappears, Alysha leaves her young son in the care of her mother, Cilla, in New Zealand. She tells her family she needs to return to Miami to tie up some loose ends, and plans to come back.
Last seen at the Shore Club
Alysha is believed to have left the Shore Club hotel on Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, in the early hours of the morning. It has been reported she was going to buy something to eat. She never returned. Her passport, luggage, purse, identification and credit cards were all left behind.
Reported missing
Alysha is officially reported missing. There has been no activity on her bank cards since the day she disappeared, and she has had no known contact with her family or friends since that time. The Miami Beach Police Department has stated foul play is suspected.
Two decades without answers
Over the next two decades, Alysha's family continue searching for answers. Her mother engages a private investigator and travels to Miami. Police obtain a DNA sample. The case is entered into NamUs (MP19635) and profiled by The Charley Project, but no confirmed trace of Alysha is ever found. Meanwhile, her son grows up with unanswered questions about what happened to his mother.
The public joins the search
Now an adult, Alysha's son launches a renewed search for answers. This website brings together everything known about the case in one place, shares updates, and provides a direct, confidential way for anyone with information, no matter how small it may seem, to come forward.
She is not the only one
Miami is a city people disappear from.
Alysha is one of hundreds of people still missing across Florida. Many of them women, many of their cases long gone quiet. Miami is a place people pass through, which is part of why someone can vanish here and never be found.
Every case that holds onto attention makes it a little harder for the next one to be forgotten. If Alysha’s story moves you, help hers, and know that the same act of looking, sharing, and refusing to move on is exactly what those other families are praying for too.
The board
Leave a message for Alysha
A public, anonymous wall. Share a memory, a word of support, or something you remember. The more people who show up for her, the harder she is to forget. I read every message.
Latest updates
As it unfolds
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Someone knows what happened to my mother.
It might be you, or someone you know. You do not need to be certain. You only need to be honest. After twenty-four years, one true thing could be everything.