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Aaron Goodwin, star of Ghost Adventures, had an in depth name. Police say that his spouse was plotting to homicide him.
The introduction of no-fault divorce did extra than simply give lots of people an opportunity at happiness. It saved lives.
Nonetheless, although it’s now much less frequent, there are nonetheless individuals who attempt to murder a spouse relatively than undergo a divorce.
That’s allegedly what Victoria Goodwin, Aaron’s spouse, meant.
Aaron Goodwin was the goal of an alleged murder-for-hire plot
TMZ studies that, final week, authorities charged Victoria Goodwin with solicitation to commit homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide over an alleged plot to homicide Aaron Goodwin.
She and the Ghost Adventures star have been married for lower than three years. The alleged homicide would have gone down whereas he was filming, the report reveals.
Victoria had reportedly been in touch with a jail inmate in Florida since October 2024. The inmate was then coordinating with the would-be hitman. One in every of her alleged texts reads: “Am I a foul particular person? As a result of I selected to finish his existence. Not divorce.”
Based on the messages, which police declare present communications between Victoria Goodwin and the inmate and the third get together, a possible hitman, she was offering Aaron’s location and movie schedule.
As Ghost Adventures data at numerous areas in California, one assumes that the demise would have appeared random — maybe like a mindless “theft gone fallacious.”
Moreover, the report particulars $11,515 put aside to pay the hitman after the very fact, with $2,500 paid up entrance.
How did authorities uncover the homicide plot in opposition to Aaron Goodwin?
Typically, murder-for-hire makes an attempt end result within the consumer making contact with somebody undercover in regulation enforcement. Even with the horrific cuts to federal funding in current months, that can probably stay a frequent prevalence.
Nonetheless, the inmate was apparently actual and nonetheless incarcerated … which meant that the telephone containing these alleged conspiratorial messages is contraband. When corrections officers confiscated the telephone, they found messages — together with texts with the alleged hitman.
The inmate had allegedly despatched: “He’s asleep proper now within the resort room … I have to know what’s happening. Can I get an replace. Was it performed?” (Happily, it was not performed)
We have no idea the entire particulars. Maybe there was an eleventh-hour rescue of Aaron Goodwin. In all probability not.
Authorities questioned Victoria, who admitted that she and Aaron — who married in August of 2022 — have been having marital issues.
She insisted that she didn’t need him killed. Based on Victoria, she was merely fantasizing about not having a husband. She additionally apparently advised investigators that she didn’t recall sending the messages, and that any cash paid was for “cellphones.”
We wouldn’t name this a ‘glad ending,’ however …
Victoria was arrested on Thursday, March 6, and held in Clark County jail on a $100,000 bond forward of her Tuesday morning arraignment.
Aaron Goodwin spoke to TMZ, and appeared downright rattled. He felt utterly blindsided — not solely as a result of he had not anticipated his spouse to (allegedly) attempt to homicide him, however as a result of he had believed that they have been glad of their marriage.
All of that sounds horrifying. It might have been a lot worse.
