Celebrity Ghost Hunter Files For Divorce After His Wife Tried To Hire An Inmate To Kill Him For $11,000

Must be tough to find out your wife only thinks your life's worth $11k.

A celebrity ghost hunter has filed for divorce from his wife after she was arrested last week in an absolutely wild murder-for-hire plot.

Victoria Goodwin, the wife of Ghost Adventures star Aaron Goodwin, was arrested and charged for solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to murder after police uncovered the bizarre scheme.

According to the arrest report, Victoria had been communicating with an inmate in a Florida prison about wanting out of her marriage, and had set aside $11,515 to pay a hitman to take out her husband. (An oddly specific amount…is the hitman charging tax or something?)

I don't know, but that just seems insultingly low to take somebody's life. The guy's presumably at least a fairly high-value target, and you're only offering $11k? This is going to be a high-profile murder, seems like she should have to break off a few more bands before somebody would want to take that risk. But then again I'm not familiar with the going rate for hitmen these days so maybe it's a fair price.

The wife reportedly provided the inmate with information about her husband's location while he was in California at the time filming his Discovery Channel show:

"He's asleep right now in the hotel room …

I need to know what's going on. Can I get an update. Was it done?"

And she also apparently questioned whether she was making the right decision by trying to have her husband killed rather than simply divorcing him:

"Am I a bad person? Because I chose to end his existence. Not divorce."

I mean…I'm not here to judge, but seems like that would have been the better option.

Anyway, while the conversations surrounding the murder-for-hire allegedly happened in October, the plot was only recently discovered when prison staff found the contraband cell phone that the inmate was using to communicate with Victoria. But when questioned about the scheme, the wife denied wanting her husband killed, saying that she was only fantasizing about getting out of her marriage. She also made a $2,500 payment to the inmate, but she reported that she thought the money was for "cell phones."

Well to nobody's surprise, the ghost hunter has now filed for divorce from his wife of two years. The couple got married – appropriately – at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion back in 2022, but Aaron Goodwin now says that their "views, tastes, likes and dislikes" are "incompatible to the extent that it has become impossible for them to live together as husband and wife in marital harmony."

Yeah, I guess one spouse wanting the other dead does present a pretty big challenge to any relationship.

The husband stated in his court filing that there is "no possibility of reconciliation" between the two.

Meanwhile, the wife is still in police custody and being held on a $100,000 bail. And ironically, just a few weeks ago (months after she had allegedly try to hire a hitman to have him killed), Victoria was still posting photos with her husband on social media:

You've gotta think it's risky trying to kill a guy whose entire business is speaking to ghosts. Surely he would know how to communicate with people even in the afterlife, so I assume if her plan had been successful he would have just told somebody what happened, right?

Then again, it might have made for some great content for his show if his co-stars had to try to track down his ghost to find his killer.