“Ghost Adventures” star Aaron Goodwin’s spouse allegedly was nabbed by police making an attempt to pay a hitman to kill her husband in a chilling murder-for-hire plot.
Victoria Goodwin, 32, was arrested and charged final week for solicitation to commit homicide and conspiracy to homicide, after an investigation allegedly unearthed her sinister plot, in accordance with a police report obtained by TMZ.
The spouse of the TV paranormal investigator had allegedly been messaging an inmate at an undisclosed Florida jail since October 2024, the place she brazenly expressed desirous to kill Goodwin’s to get out of her marriage.
“Am I a bad person? Because I chose to end his existence. Not divorce,” police cited Victoria writing in textual content to the inmate.
She allegedly provided $11,515 to pay for the job and handed alongside data about her husband’s location to the inmate to offer to a hitman he was speaking with to tug off the kill.
The 48-year-old paranormal investigator was allegedly filming “Ghost Adventures” in California when the hit was meant to go down.
“He’s asleep right now in the hotel room … I need to know what’s going on. Can I get an update. Was it done?” the inmate texted the hitman, in accordance with police.
It’s unclear what occurred with the hitman, however police declare that Victoria put a cost of $2,500 right down to have her ghost looking husband killed.
Cops stated that the alleged murder-for-hire plot was solely found after corrections officers confiscated the Florida inmate’s telephone as contraband, TMZ reported, citing regulation enforcement.
Victoria has denied ever desirous to have her husband killed, in accordance with the report.
She allegedly advised investigators that she was solely “daydreaming or fantasizing about being without her husband” and that she didn’t recall sending the messages concerning the twisted murder-for-hire plot.
Victoria allegedly admitted she and Goodwin have been going via marital issues, however advised police she didn’t need to have him murdered.
When requested concerning the messages concerning cash for the hit with the inmate, she advised police that she thought it was for a cellphone, TMZ reported.
A “Victoria Lynn Goodwin” was arrested in Nevada on March 6 for solicitation to commit homicide and conspire to commit homicide and is being held on a $100k bail, in accordance with Clark County jail data.
She is about to make her preliminary court docket look on Tuesday morning, in accordance with court docket data.
The Submit has contacted the Clark County’s District Legal professional’s workplace for remark.
Goodwin was allegedly “blindsided and devastated at this turn of events” and “thought he was in a happy marriage,” sources advised TMZ.
The couple tied the knot at Disneyland’s The Haunted Mansion in California in August 2022 and at present dwell in Las Vegas.
The paranormal cameraman is finest identified for his position alongside paranormal investigator Zak Bagans on “Ghost Adventures.”
Bagans advised TMZ it’s an “emotional time” for his ghost looking co-star and “he’s trying to give him love and support.”
The 2 have been pals since Goodwin, of Oregon, and Bagans, of Illinois, moved to Nevada across the identical time in 2005 to pursue filmmaking.
They’ve labored collectively on “Ghost Adventures” because it premiered in 2008.
