The wife of “Ghost Adventures” star Aaron Goodwin has been arrested on suspicion of solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to murder after police discovered her involvement in a “murder-for-hire” plot targeting her husband. Victoria Goodwin was arrested last Thursday in Nevada, where the couple resides, according to publicly available inmate records. She is being held on $100,000 bail following an initial court hearing on Tuesday, court records indicate. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 25. According to a copy of the police report obtained by CNN, investigators determined that Victoria Goodwin “willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously” plotted to “commit the murder of” her husband with an inmate in Florida, with whom she had been communicating. CNN has reached out to representatives for both Victoria and Aaron Goodwin. Police uncovered text messages between Victoria Goodwin and the inmate, which allegedly indicated she was conspiring and soliciting to murder Aaron Goodwin through a third party the inmate was corresponding with. Their communications included plans for Victoria Goodwin to make an initial payment of $2,500, according to police. She was in love with the inmate, according to the police report, and felt her husband “would not accept divorce.”
Ad Feedback Victoria and Aaron Goodwin in Las Vegas in 2022. Ethan Miller/Getty Images/File Excerpts of text messages included in the report show Goodwin allegedly providing the inmate with information about her husband’s whereabouts in connection with the plot and questioning whether she was “a bad person” for “choosing to end his existence” instead of divorcing him. Following her arrest, Goodwin told police that she initially began writing to the inmate after learning about him from a true crime documentary, according to the police report. They eventually began communicating via text message. Goodwin “denied wanting her husband to be killed,” according to the report, and described herself as “daydreaming of being in a different situation,” but that she “no longer felt that way.” She also told police that she began talking to the inmate at a time when she and her husband “were going through problems in their marriage” and described feeling lonely. Aaron Goodwin is an actor and host, best known for starring alongside Zak Bagans on Discovery+’s “Ghost Adventures.” Aaron and Victoria Goodwin have been married since 2022, according to a post on her Instagram.
