Alyssa was a journalist based in Raccoon City. By 1998, she was a field reporter for the Raccoon Press and was a competent rival to fellow reporter Ben Bertolucci, who admired her tenacity and determination as a journalist.
History
In 1996, a fellow reporter, Kurt, who she held respect for, was involved in investigating the private hospital in the Raccoon Forest. Alyssa herself became involved in some capacity. Kurt was eventually killed in the hospital during his attempt to obtain incriminating evidence of the hospital's use of illegal drugs and testing. When the hospital was subsequently shut down, Alyssa underwent an induced amnesia procedure under Greg Mueller. At this time she was a staff reporter for Comet News.
Alyssa became entangled in the t-virus outbreak in the city in late September 1998 while working on something on her laptop in J's Bar, and while attempting to escape tried to dig up information on what caused the outbreak. One of her escape attempts led her into the Raccoon Forest, and soon to the abandoned hospital her colleague was murdered in. Alyssa managed to uncover the truth behind the hospital and the incident which led to Kurt's death, and later managed to escape from Raccoon City.
Following the incident, Alyssa published all of the material she had collected from the incident and wrote an article for the Daily Advisor newspaper entitled 'What is BOW? Blowing the Lid Off This Horrifying Secret Project'.