Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Wife of 'Ghost Adventures' Star Hires Hitman to Kill Him | Crime Alert 04.23.25

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

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! For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Ghost Adventures actor Aaron Goodwin's estranged wife says, yes, I wanted him dead. Police uncover the murder for hire plot after Florida corrections officers confiscate an inmate's phone. That inmate, Grant Amato, who's serving life for the murders of his mother, father, and brother. Victoria reportedly began a relationship with Amato after seeing him in the Paramount Plus true crime docuseries, Control, Alt, Desire. Nancy, investigators found both text and Facebook messages between Goodwin and Amato planning the murder of her husband.

The couple hired a third person to commit the murder of her husband. The couple hired a third person to commit the murder for just over $11,000 and gave the assassin Aaron's location and the make and model of his car. In anticipation of the murder, Goodwin sent messages to Amato reading, I'm so anxious lol and I can't believe it's happening. Goodwin then asked her lover if she was a bad person for choosing to kill her husband rather than divorce him. 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. Victoria Goodwin pleads guilty to one felony count conspiracy to commit murder,

now facing two to ten behind bars. Two thirty a.m. Clearwater cops call to the overtime sports bar after Aaron Jablonski, 34, quote, gets upset when the karaoke machine doesn't play his song. Another patron tries to calm him down, but Jablonski reportedly whips out a gun from his waistband. The victim tells cops he quipped, I don't effing care, racked around out of the gun, then walked away. When cops find him, he's got a Glock 9 pistol on him. Too bad since Jablonski has a previous conviction of battery on law enforcement. Jablonski, free after posting a $40,000 bond, ordered to stay away from the bar and the victim. More crime and justice news after this.

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. We begin in Texas as the gunman behind the racist mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso has pleaded guilty to capital murder. 26-year-old Patrick Crucias admitted to killing 23 people in 2019 after targeting Hispanics. He drove over 700 miles from suburban Dallas and opened fire with an AK-style rifle in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. Judge Sam Medrano told him, quote, your mission failed. You didn't divide the city. You strengthened it. Crucias, already serving 90 federal life terms, will now receive a state life sentence with no parole. The death penalty was dropped at the request of many

victims' families. Defense attorneys say he suffers from severe mental illness and was radicalized online. He has never apologized. The victims included a high school student, retirees, and Mexican nationals shopping that day. A Colorado man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for a chilling crime that began with deception and ended in tragedy. Crime Online's Sydney Sumner has the story. In Broomfield, Colorado, 44-year-old Daniel Krug has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of his wife, Crystal Krug, in December 2023. Prosecutors revealed that Krug orchestrated a campaign of harassment against Crystal by impersonating her ex-boyfriend, sending threatening messages to instill fear. His aim was to manipulate her into seeking his protection. When she began cooperating with

police, Krug attacked her in their home, rendering her unconscious before fatally stabbing her. Despite the defense's claim of no physical evidence linking him to the scene, the jury found the circumstantial evidence compelling. Judge Priscilla Lowe also imposed an additional nine and a half years for stalking and criminal impersonation, labeling the acts as domestic violence. Crystal, a biochemical engineer and mother of three, was remembered by family as fiercely smart, funny, and creative. Her children, now orphaned, are being cared for by relatives.

District Attorney Brian Mason described Krug's actions as, quote, an example of depravity driven by a desire for control. Thanks, John. Chris Leguizano, 51, drives from Des Moines to San Antonio to stay with her son, Edgar Chung Leguizano. From there, she delivers a truck to her ex-brother-in-law in Mexico. It's a known area for kidnappings, and that's what family thinks happened to the Iowa mom. Chris checks in with her family, but doesn't return to San Antonio. Two days later, her son files a missing person report. Chris, 5'1", 135 pounds.

The FBI has been investigating. She's white, brown hair, brown eyes. If you have info on the disappearance of Chris Leguizano, call 515-725-6036. 515-725-6036. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. And please join us for our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.