'Ghost Adventures' star Aaron Goodwin's wife Victoria Goodwin appears in court for alleged murder-for-hire plot with Grant Amato

LAS VEGAS — The wife of a paranormal reality series cast member charged with plotting his murder was in court this week.

Earlier this month, the wife of “Ghost Adventures” star Aaron Goodwin was arrested on suspicion of solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Police discovered she was involved in a “murder for hire” plot targeting her husband.

Victoria Goodwin was arrested on March 6 in Nevada, where the couple lives, according to publicly available inmate records. She is currently held on $100,000 bail following an initial court hearing held on Tuesday, as indicated in court records.

An obtained copy of the police report revealed that investigators found Victoria Goodwin had planned to “commit the murder of” her husband with an inmate in Florida, with whom she had been in contact. A sum of $11,000 had reportedly been allocated for payment once the deed was completed.

CNN has reached out to representatives for both Victoria and Aaron Goodwin.

Police uncovered text messages between Victoria Goodwin and the inmate that allegedly indicated she was conspiring and soliciting to murder Aaron Goodwin through a third party who the inmate was corresponding with. Their communications included plans for Victoria Goodwin to make an initial payment in the amount 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.”

Excerpts of text messages included in the report show Goodwin allegedly giving the inmate information about her husband’s whereabouts in connection with the plot and questioning if she was “a bad person” because she “chose to end his existence” instead of divorcing him.

Following her arrest, Goodwin told police that she initially began writing to the inmate after she became aware of 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 she “no longer felt that way.”

She also told police that she began talking to the inmate at a point in time when she and her husband “were going through problems in their marriage” and described feeling lonely.

In court Tuesday, Victoria Goodwin claimed she doesn’t remember sending the messages.

The next step in the case is a status check, which is set for April 8.

Aaron Goodwin filed for divorce after his wife was arrested.

Aaron Goodwin is an actor and host, best known for starring alongside Zak Bagans on the Discovery+’s “Ghost Adventures.” Aaron and Victoria Goodwin have been married since 2022, according to a post on her Instagram.

Discovery+, like CNN, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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