Wife of ‘Ghost Adventures’ star enters guilty plea
The wife of “Ghost Adventures” star has agreed to plead guilty to one of two charges in what authorities said was a plot to kill her husband.
Last week, prosecutors said that they would drop one of two charges against Victoria Goodwin, wife of Aaron Goodwin, if she pleaded guilty.
On Monday, a guilty plea agreement signed by Goodwin, 32, was filed in District Court over allegations that she planned, with the help of a Florida inmate, to have her celebrity husband killed. She was also initially charged with solicitation to commit murder.
Her lawyer, David Brown, said last week that prosecutors agreed to drop the solicitation charge if she entered a guilty plea to the conspiracy charge. Goodwin is due back in court April 22.
After last week’s brief hearing, Brown told reporters that Goodwin could receive anything from probation to a maximum of 10 years in prison.
Goodwin’s arrest report said that she was living in Las Vegas with her husband, known for his role in the reality television series “Ghost Adventures,” when their relationship began to sour.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s investigation into Victoria Goodwin stemmed from an October cellphone seizure at the Okeechobee Correctional Institution, a state prison in Florida. Corrections officers took a Motorola cellphone from Grant Amato, an inmate at the facility, and sent it to a cellphone lab, where detectives downloaded and searched its contents, police said.
The arrest report said that as investigators went through the contents of the device, they found text and Facebook messages between Amato and a woman, later identified as Goodwin, who “seemed to be planning a murder-for-hire plot.” It was then that Florida law enforcement contacted Metro.
On March 12, six days after his wife was arrested, Aaron Goodwin filed for divorce. Court documents said it had become “impossible” for the two to live together in marital harmony. A couple of weeks later, he thanked his supporters on Instagram.
“Thank you everyone for all the love and support through this emotionally trying time,” the post read. “It has really helped a lot and I appreciate you all.”
An earlier version of this story misstated the terms of an agreement with prosecutors.
Contact Akiya Dillon at adillon@reviewjournal.com
