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Ghost Adventures host's wife pleads guilty to conspiracy to murder

Published 23 October 2025

While filming an episode of Ghost Adventures in March at the abandoned Hollydale Mental Hospital in Downey, California, host Aaron Goodwin received a FaceTime call from Las Vegas police informing him that his wife, Victoria Goodwin, had been arrested in Nevada on charges that she conspired to hire a hitman to kill him. Victoria Goodwin, 32, pleaded guilty in April to one felony count of conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced in June to a term of 36 to 90 months in Nevada custody, prosecutors said.

The incident appears on the new Ghost Adventures episode titled Hollydale Asylum of Hell, which aired on Discovery on Oct. 22. Production cut or limited footage of the conversation after Goodwin left the building to take the call, and the show withheld additional material out of stated respect for him. Goodwin posted on Instagram that he would not watch the episode, writing that he did not want to "relive that night again" and that he was not ready to speak publicly about the matter.

Clark County investigators say the plot emerged from communications between Victoria Goodwin and a Florida inmate identified as Grant Amato. Authorities said corrections officers discovered a...

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