Mum,
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.
I have had to learn you from the outside. Photographs. Case files. Other people’s memories. The parts they were willing to give me.
They all describe the same woman: clever, quick, hard to pin down, hard to say no to. Someone people noticed. Someone people remembered. I should have known that for myself.
You were twenty-four when you went out for food in Miami Beach and did not come back. I am older now than you were then. I know what was left behind. I know the silence that followed. I know what the police believe.
What I do not know is who took the rest of the story.
I am not looking for comfort. I am looking for the part that has been kept from me.
Maybe someone knew you as Alysha. Maybe as Krsangi. Maybe as Yami. Maybe they met you in Miami, Los Angeles, or through the Hare Krishna community and never knew you disappeared. Maybe they have spent years thinking the small thing they remember does not matter.
It matters.
I cannot ask you what happened. So I am asking everyone else.
Wherever you are, I am your son.
Love,
Adrian
To whoever is reading this
My name is Adrian. Alysha is my mother.
This site, this tip line, and this letter exist for one reason: to find out what happened to her after she disappeared from Miami Beach in early 2002.
If you knew her as Alysha, Krsangi, or Yami, I need to hear from you. If you met her in Miami, Los Angeles, or through the Hare Krishna community, tell me what you remember.
It does not need to be dramatic. It does not need to be proven. It can be a name, a place, a conversation, a rumour, a car, a room, a person she was with, or something that felt wrong at the time but never had anywhere to go.
You do not need to be certain. You only need to be honest.
Tips can be sent anonymously. I read them myself.
And if you did not know her, send this to someone who might have. Cases like this move when one person finally says the part they know.
Adrian Hoffmann, her son