
Picture through Victoria Goodwin/Instagram
It is like a true-crime crossover episode.
In a weird twist, Grant Amato was concerned within the homicide plot to kill Ghost Adventures star Aaron Goodwin. Goodwin’s spouse, Victoria Goodwin, can be accused of planning to kill her husband. Amato is the topic of the true-crime documentary CTRl+ALT+DESIRE and is at present serving a life sentence in Florida for murdering his household over a relationship with a cam woman.
Goodwin, 32, was arrested in early March, and the alleged plot to kill Aaron, 48, was reportedly uncovered in a sequence of textual content messages between Victoria and Amato, recovered from Amato’s cellphone, relationship again to October 2024, in response to Florida information, WFLA.
Amato, 35, is at present behind bars at Okeechobee Correctional Establishment in Florida for the 2019 homicide of his dad and mom and brother to cowl up lots of of hundreds of {dollars} of his brother’s and father’s cash spent on cam woman periods with a Bulgarian mannequin.
Victoria allegedly contacted Amato in jail after watching CTRL+ALT+DESIRE, and when authorities seized Amato’s cellphone, they found plans to rent a hitman to kill Victoria’s husband, Aaron. In a single textual content, Victoria wrote, “I’m so anxious LOLOL, I simply can’t consider it’s occurring… how did I get up to now,” and in addition, “Am I a foul particular person? [B]ecause I selected to finish his existence. Not divorce.”
Investigators say Victoria and Amato fell in love, and Victoria saved round $11,500 to pay a hitman to kill her husband. It’s not instantly clear how Amato had a cellphone or was in a position to textual content behind bars. Experiences say the hitman was paid $2,500 upfront.
Amato contacted the hitman and despatched him messages like, “[Aaron] is asleep proper now within the lodge room… brother. I have to know what’s going on. Can I get an replace? Was it performed?” after Victoria allegedly stored Amato up to date on Aaron’s whereabouts.
In keeping with the Florida Division of Corrections, cell telephones are banned, and officers routinely sweep cells for contraband, like telephones, probably explaining how Amato’s cellphone was discovered.
Aaron Goodwin filed for divorce
#BREAKING: Apparently, Victoria Goodwin and Grant Amato have been “lovers” who began speaking years in the past after she noticed him on a real crime documentary through @WFLA.
This case will get sicker and sicker as extra particulars are slowly launched…#GhostAdventures #AaronGoodwin pic.twitter.com/i0cw9ZrQ5M
— Official Ghost Adventures Followers (@GACrewFans) March 14, 2025
When authorities found the plan to kill Aaron, they contacted Nevada regulation enforcement the place the Goodwins dwell, and Victoria was arrested in early March. She instructed police she and Aaron “have been going by way of issues of their marriage,” and admitted she and Amato had been involved, however denied the plot to kill her husband, in response to NBC Information.
In keeping with Flordia information WESH, Victoria’s arrest report mentioned, “She described herself of generally daydreaming of being in a distinct scenario… Victoria expressed her emotions of eager to be with out Aaron and with Amato to Amato which she described as fantasy or daydream.”
Victoria is predicted to seem in court docket on March 25. Amato has not but commented on the accusations. After his spouse’s arrest, Aaron, who had been on Ghost Adventures for the reason that present premiered in 2008, filed for divorce on March 12, US Weekly stories.
“The views, tastes, likes, and dislikes of husband and spouse have change into incompatible to the extent that it has change into not possible for them to dwell collectively … in marital concord. There is no such thing as a chance of reconciliation,” Aaron’s divorce submitting mentioned.