The estranged spouse of Ghost Adventures star Aaron Goodwin has been sentenced to between three and seven-and-a-half years in a Nevada jail, with 92 days credited for time served, after pleading responsible to conspiracy to commit homicide after hiring a hitman to kill her husband.
As outlined in courtroom filings, prosecutors agreed to drop the solicitation cost final April in change for her pleading responsible to a cost of conspiracy to commit homicide.
In accordance with TMZ, Victoria Goodwin was sentenced following an “emotional courtroom showdown,” throughout which she apologized on to her estranged husband for her actions.
Victoria was initially arrested on March 6 in Clark County, Nevada, after she was caught messaging inmate Grant Amato with specific particulars indicating she meant to have her husband murdered. In accordance with police reviews, certainly one of Victoria’s textual content messages learn: “Am I a nasty individual? As a result of I selected to finish his existence. Not divorce.”
She allegedly provided $11,515 for the job and shared her husband’s location with the inmate, who was anticipated to move the data to a employed hitman. In accordance with courtroom paperwork, Victoria even supplied particulars of Aaron’s schedule, together with filming occasions for Ghost Adventures, doubtlessly placing his co-workers in danger.
In the course of the trial, prosecutors cited textual content messages from Amato to the hitman stating: “He’s asleep proper now within the lodge room…I have to know what’s happening. Can I get an replace. Was it executed?”
In accordance with CourtTV, Aaron delivered an emotional plea describing the anguish of discovering his spouse’s affair, his try to reconcile, and the last word betrayal of studying she had employed a hitman. In a tearful disposition, the ghost hunter acknowledged he would by no means really feel protected once more.
Aaron filed for divorce simply days after her arrest. In his March 12 filming, he cited, “The views, tastes, likes and dislikes of Husband and Spouse have develop into incompatible to the extent that it has develop into unattainable for them to dwell collectively as husband and spouse in marital concord. There is no such thing as a risk of reconciliation between Husband and Spouse.”