Aaron Goodwin, best known as a longtime investigator on the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures, is facing one of the more surreal turns of his life — and that’s saying something for someone whose career revolves around chasing the paranormal.
His estranged wife, Victoria Goodwin, is serving a three-to-seven-year sentence in a Nevada prison for a murder-for-hire plot targeting him. Yet in recent court filings, Victoria signaled she still believes the two can reconcile.
On August 1, she formally responded to Aaron’s divorce petition, which he filed earlier this year. In his filing, Aaron said the couple’s differences had grown so deep that “there is no possibility of reconciliation.” Victoria, 32, admitted the marriage was in trouble but countered that she believed they could find their way back to each other.
Victoria isn’t trying to block the divorce outright. Instead, she laid out her own requests: monthly alimony, return of personal property she says is in Aaron’s possession, coverage of her legal fees, and permission to keep his last name. The pair married in May 2020.
Her arrest in March came after prosecutors alleged she’d been communicating with Grant Amato, a Florida inmate serving a life sentence for murdering his parents and brother. According to prosecutors, the two discussed paying $11,000 to hire a hitman to kill Aaron, and exchanged messages that suggested they were romantically involved. In one alleged text to Amato, Victoria wrote, “Am I a bad person? Because I chose to end his existence. Not divorce.”
Victoria later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder as part of a plea deal that dropped the more severe solicitation charge. Aaron filed for divorce just days after her arrest, later amending his petition to seek punitive damages. He accused her of negligence, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and even false imprisonment — alleging she acted with “extreme or outrageous” intent to harm him.
In June, she was sentenced. Aaron delivered a victim statement in court, describing the emotional fallout of discovering the alleged plot. He said he’d hired armed security, lived in fear for weeks, and drained his energy trying to process what had happened. “It’s like a heartbreak no one should go through in life,” he told the judge. “I can’t trust anything anymore. I cry every day. I feel so alone.”
Despite Victoria’s hope for reconciliation, Aaron’s filings make it clear he sees no way forward. For now, the marriage’s fate is in the court’s hands — though given the history, the ghost of trust seems long gone.
