Ghost Adventures star Aaron Goodwin confronted his estranged wife in court Thursday, delivering a scathing statement as she was sentenced for plotting to have him killed.
“This person over here, I don’t know at all. Not one bit,” Aaron said of his wife, Victoria Goodwin, while addressing the judge, according to US Weekly. “The fact that this person did all this to me with no worry, no care or love in her heart for me—I will never feel the same.”
Victoria pled guilty in April to conspiracy to commit murder in Nevada, after she was caught messaging Florida prison inmate Grant Amato in an attempt arrange Aaron’s killing. Amato is serving life in prison for shooting his father, mother, and brother Cody in the head at their home in Florida in 2019 and attempting to stage it as a murder-suicide committed by his brother.
Victoria allegedly offered $11,515 for the hit, sharing her husband’s location with Amato—a convicted killer—who was expected to relay the information to a hitman. The murder was set to take place in Oct. 2024, while Aaron was filming Ghost Adventures in California.
At Thursday’s sentencing at Nevada’s Clark County District Court, Victoria turned to Aaron, whom she wed in 2020, and apologized through tears.
“I’m so immensely sorry for the pain and anxiety I’ve caused you and the betrayal you undoubtedly and rightfully feel by my actions,” she said, US Weekly reported.
Aaron, who investigates paranormal activity on his show, described the ordeal as “a heartbreak no one should go through in life,” especially after he had tried to salvage their relationship even after discovering in Sept. 2024 that Victoria had been cheating on him with “multiple men,” including Amato.
“I gave her the option of divorce where we could work it out because I loved her so much. She made me feel so special and she was very—she was so sorry,” Aaron said, before turning to address Victoria directly. “At least that’s what you told me.”
Instead, he continued, “She put a hit out to kill me more than once, got blackmailed, and spent almost all our savings to keep it quiet, and fell more in love with Amato.”
Chilling messages Victoria sent to Amato about their sinister plan were recovered from her phone by investigators.
“Am I a bad person?” one message read. “Because I chose to end his existence. Not divorce.”
Aaron, who filed for divorce in March, said uncovering Victoria’s murder-for-hire plot has left him unable to “trust anything anymore,” and led him to hire armed security. “I still won’t feel safe whenever she’s released,” he said.
The judge sentenced Victoria to between three and seven-and-a-half years in prison.
