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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Wife of 'Ghost Adventures' Star Hires Hitman to Kill Him | Crime Alert 04.23.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Wife of 'Ghost Adventures' star hires a hitman with her incarcerated lover to take out her husband! Karaoke singer pulls a gun on another reveler when his song doesn't play!

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Ghost Adventures actor Aaron Goodwin's estranged.

0:07.2

Dwight says, yes, I wanted him dead. Police uncovered the murder for hire plot after Florida corrections officers confiscate an inmate's phone.

0:16.7

That inmate, Grant Amato, who's serving life for the murders of his mother, father, and brother.

0:23.1

Victoria reportedly began a relationship with Amato after seeing you in the Paramount Plus true crime docu-series,

0:29.6

Control, Alt, Desire.

0:32.3

Nancy, investigators found both text and Facebook messages between Goodwin and Amato,

0:38.9

planning the murder of her husband.

0:44.5

The couple hired a third person to commit the murder for just over 11 grand and gave the assassin Aaron's location and the make and model of his car. In anticipation of the murder,

0:50.3

Goodwin sent messages to Amato reading, I'm so anxious, L-O-L, and I can't believe it's happening.

0:57.6

Goodwin then asked her lover if she was a bad person for choosing to kill her husband rather than divorce him.

1:03.6

Amato's phone was confiscated the same day as the intended hit, just after he texted the hitman to ask if the job had been completed.

1:12.5

Victoria Goodwin pleads guilty to one felony count conspiracy to commit murder, now facing

1:18.0

2 to 10 behind bars.

1:20.6

2.30 a.m. Clearwater cops call to the overtime sports bar after Aaron Jablonski, 34, quote,

1:26.9

gets upset when the karaoke machine doesn't

1:30.1

play his song. Another patron tries to calm him down, but Jablonsky reportedly whips out a gun from

1:37.1

his waistband. The victim tells cops he quipped, I don't effing care, racked around out of the gun,

1:43.7

then walked away.

1:45.1

When cops find him, he's got a Glock 9 pistol on him.

1:48.9

Too bad, since Jablonski has a previous conviction of battery on law enforcement.

1:54.2

Jablonsky, free after posting a $40,000 bond,

1:58.3

ordered to stay away from the bar and the victim.

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