In today's episode, we examine a disturbing string of murder attached to the infamous television program "Ghost Adventures", and speak with one of the original cast members and co-founders of the show, Nick Groff, about his direct ties to the crimes. The stories that we are about to share with you are sure to shock you, and one of them is still playing out right now as we release this episode. These are dark, disturbing stories, so listener discretion is heavily advised. Podcast clips featuring Mark & Debbie Constantino taken from S3 Ep77 of “Darkness Radio” with Dave Schrader. Full show can be found here: https://youtu.be/BmAkm229s7Q - Listen to our new show, "THE CONSPIRACY FILES"!: -Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5IY9nWD2MYDzlSYP48nRPl -Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conspiracy-files/id1752719844 -Amazon/Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ab1ade99-740c-46ae-8028-b2cf41eabf58/the-conspiracy-files -Pandora - https://www.pandora.com/podcast/the-conspiracy-files/PC:1001089101 -iHeart - https://iheart.com/podcast/186907423/ -PocketCast - https://pca.st/dpdyrcca -CastBox - https://castbox.fm/channel/id6193084?country=us - Stay Connected: Join the Murder in America fam in our free Facebook Community for a behind-the-scenes look, more insights and current events in the true crime world: https://www.facebook.com/groups/4365229996855701 If you want even more Murder in America bonus content, including ad-free episodes, come join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/murderinamerica Instagram: http://instagram.com/murderinamerica/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/Murder-in-America-Podcast/100086268848682/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurderInAmerica TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theparanormalfiles and https://www.tiktok.com/@courtneybrowen Feeling spooky? Follow Colin as he travels state to state (and even country to country!) investigating claims of extreme paranormal activity and visiting famous haunted locations on The Paranormal Files Official Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheParanormalFilesOfficialChannel - (c) BLOOD IN THE SINK PRODUCTIONS 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the disturbing details behind the 'Ghost Adventures' murders?
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Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape, murder, and offenses against children.
This podcast is not for everyone. You have been warned. As some of you may know, when I'm not podcasting, I'm a full-time paranormal investigator on my YouTube channel, The Paranormal Files. I've been interested in the paranormal since I was a little kid, and a huge part of my childhood was sitting down every weekend with my mom and watching the show Ghost Adventures.
In the show, three men named Nick Groff, Zach Baggins, and Aaron Goodwin traveled around investigating the most haunted locations around the world. And they made a huge impression on me as a kid. But recently, Ghost Adventures has been getting a lot of attention in the media.
That's because, a few months ago, authorities learned that someone had been planning to murder Aaron Goodwin, one of the show's main cast members. And that person, who had been trying to have Aaron killed, was none other than his own wife. But that's not the only dark event in the history of Ghost Adventures.
Today, we're going to tell you the story of a chilling murder-suicide connected to Ghost Adventures that happened back in 2015. And for this episode, we had the incredible privilege of interviewing Nick Groff, one of the original cast members of the show. And he's sharing some of this information publicly for the very first time. So, this is the story of Victoria Goodwin, Aaron Goodwin,
and Mark and Debbie Constantino. I'm Colin Browen.
And I'm Courtney Browen.
To be continued...
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Chapter 2: How did Nick Groff get involved in paranormal investigations?
I'm just going to tell you right now, I can't get involved in like whatever's going on. Like, and he's like, no, no, I know you can't. And I was just calling you. I just want to tell you, thank you, man. Thank you for always just being, you're a good person. You're supportive. Everything we've done our whole life. Thank you. I know you can't get involved. It's okay. It's fine. And I said, and
And but thinking back, I think he was looking to pry on information to see if I knew where Debbie was in the conversation. But he knew I didn't. So we just talked and I was quick to cut it down with like, I don't want to be involved. So and your relationship or your issues or whatever was happening. And that's kind of it. And he just stopped and he said, just stop. It was weird.
It's almost like he was saying goodbye to me in a weird way. He just like, thank you, man. And almost like, I'm glad I knew you and thank you. And you were always a good person and take care. That's all he said to me. I had no clue. You know, I wish I would have known because I would have said something.
Nick had no idea that about 24 hours after hanging up the phone with Mark Constantino, that he would go on a killing spree. Over the last month of his life, Mark had lost control of everything. After getting arrested, he had lost his reputation, his wife, his money, and his career. And to add insult to injury, Debbie was clearly moving on with her life.
After filing for divorce, she was posting on her social media and she looked really happy. She posted pictures with friends, getting her nails done, and living her life to the fullest. But not Mark. For weeks, he sat alone at his home in Reno, Nevada, spiraling.
On Facebook, he vented that Debbie had taken all of her belongings out of the house, but left the ashes of their six-month-old daughter behind. He wrote, quote, "'How the fuck can someone do that?' End quote." Now eventually, he even moved out of their house and went to stay with their daughter Raquel. I guess being in their home was too much for him.
And everyone could tell that Mark was struggling, but no one expected what would come next. Which brings us to September 22nd, 2015. Like we mentioned, Debbie had been telling everyone to keep her new address hidden from Mark. She feared for her life. But the one thing that kept her at peace was that Mark had no idea where she was. However, that would soon change.
It's unclear who gave Mark Debbie's location, but Nick said that he was told it was a friend of theirs. And once Mark figured out the address, he grabbed his gun and made his way over. Inside the house at the time was Debbie and one of her roommates, 55-year-old Jimmy Anderson. Their other roommate, Summer Myers, was luckily at her boyfriend's house at the time.
But as Mark pulled up to the house that day, he was full of rage. Now it's unclear exactly what happened next, We don't know if someone opened the door or if Mark barged his way inside, but we do know that the garage door was left open, so perhaps he entered the house that way. But upon entering the residence, Mark would first encounter Jimmy Anderson.
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Chapter 3: What was the relationship like between Mark and Debbie Constantino?
Their daughter Raquel wasn't home at the time and the only other person who knew Debbie was in danger was Jimmy Anderson. And he had just been shot dead. So at that time, no one knew where Debbie was. And no one was coming to save her.
Hours later, at around 6.30 a.m., Debbie's other roommate, Summer, had finally come back home after spending the night at her boyfriend's house. However, as she pulled up, she saw something strange. Their garage door was open and the lights to the house were still on.
Now, this immediately stuck out to Summer because Debbie was very good about locking up the home at night and turning out all of the lights. But nonetheless, she parked her car and made her way inside. However, seconds later, she would come across an absolutely horrific scene. There in the hallway of their home was the body of her roommate, Jimmy Anderson.
He was lying in a pool of blood with a single gunshot wound to the head. Horrified, Summer quickly ran out of her house and called 911. But immediately, she knew exactly who was responsible. Mark Constantino. Debbie had confided in Summer about how she feared her estranged husband. And it seemed as though Debbie's fears had come true.
Now, Summer didn't even go into the house to look for Debbie because she didn't know if Mark was still in there or what. But soon enough, the police would arrive. During their sweep of the home, they didn't find Debbie or Mark. They found cigarette butts, empty wine glasses, a bottle of vodka on the kitchen counter, and of course, the body of Jimmy Anderson.
So their next course of action was to track down the Constantinos. Now, the police already knew this couple's history, so like Summer, they also feared for Debbie's safety. Luckily, they were quickly able to find Debbie's location by looking at her cell phone records. And from here, the police made their way to the courtside apartments about seven miles away at 1115th Street.
Nearby this apartment was a high school. And since this was a potential hostage situation, the school was put on lockdown and a SWAT team surrounded the apartment complex. But as they did, they heard the sound of three gunshots. Mark then yelled out to law enforcement, quote, give me 15 minutes to gather my thoughts or I'll kill her, end quote.
For the next three hours, Mark would go back and forth with negotiators. They did everything they could to get him to release Debbie, but Mark wasn't complying. Little did they know, however, that Debbie was already dead. Mark had already, at this point, shot her in the face two times. So for those three hours, he had been sitting by her body trying to figure out what to do next.
I'm sure he wrestled with the decision of whether to turn himself in or to kill himself. And ultimately, he chose the latter. Shortly before 1.30 p.m., the SWAT team outside of the apartment heard a single gunshot. And from there, Mark Constantino was no longer responding to them. And to their dismay, When they called out for Debbie Constantino, she wasn't answering them either.
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Chapter 4: What led to the violent events in the Constantino household?
It's right after I said, do you know what resides in our house and how to deal with it?
Yeah.
Fuck that, Mark. How the hell do we even get rid of it?
But 10 years after the deaths of Jimmy Anderson and Mark and Debbie Constantino, Ghost Adventures would be in the media once again, this time involving conspiracy to commit murder. So let's rewind a bit, all the way back to the birth of Ghost Adventures.
Like we mentioned earlier, around 2007, Nick Groff decided that he and Zach Bagans were going to film at haunted locations around America, and he invited Aaron Goodwin to come along with them. Soon enough, the trio would be widely known across the world. But in the beginning, Aaron Goodwin wasn't sure if this was the right path for him. This industry can be dark.
And Aaron said that for a while, he felt like some of that darkness was following him into his everyday life. At the time, he was married to a woman named Sheena. And when he would leave for filming, scary things would start happening around their home. Posters flying off the walls, the toilet seat mysteriously going up on its own. It was scary. And being the wife of a ghost hunter myself,
I've had similar experiences. But despite everything, Erin decided to stick with it.
Now, Aaron and Sheena would eventually divorce, and Aaron would later claim that his life as a ghost hunter partly contributed to their separation.
In a 2011 interview, Aaron admitted, "...for the first couple of seasons I was scared and couldn't figure out if I really wanted to do this, and the stuff that followed me home would mess with me and my ex-wife and family and friends, everyone around me and my home. So after getting used to it for two years, you kind of realize that if they were going to hurt you, they would have hurt you."
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Chapter 5: What happened during the final days of Debbie and Mark Constantino?
Throughout their relationship, users posted anonymously on a Tumblr account titled The Return of the Dirty Blog, accusing Victoria of cheating on her boyfriend after messaging Aaron through Instagram. One anonymous post on the blog even stated that Victoria allegedly had a private Instagram page titled Psychotic Princess Kitten, where she posted provocative BDSM photographs of herself.
One image allegedly showed her holding a knife to her neck with the caption, I love playing with knives, daddy. Hashtag blondes have more fun. Hashtag sucker for pain. And disturbingly, hashtag Lolita. Now, just a quick side note, Lolita and lollies, that is a very disturbing phenomenon that associates sexual attraction with underaged people.
If you get what I'm saying, Lolita being the famous novel about an older man basically becoming obsessed with a young girl. It was famously adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick. And then on top of that, obviously everybody knows that Jeffrey Epstein's plane was nicknamed the Lolita Express. So I just got to say, when I saw that hashtag there, I was pretty disturbed, honestly.
Another photo allegedly showed Victoria without underwear with a unicorn emoji covering herself. And the caption of that post read, Once again, disturbingly, On September 10th, 2018, an anonymous post said,
here's the tea on me confronting victoria back in june when i discovered this blog i love it by the way i got to learn a little bit about victoria lolita and her and aaron have this sugar daddy sugar baby relationship going on i'm also the person who got into her bondage page she was a dumb ass for accepting my request anyways i messaged her and i told her she's only using aaron for his money trips to disney and universal there's a lot more to the story
A lot of these users believe that Victoria was just using Aaron for his money, but others defended their relationship. One user wrote, quote, you guys should really leave Victoria and Aaron alone. I get it if you guys don't like her. There is obviously things that aren't great about her, but keep those feelings to yourself and let Aaron be happy.
He's a very nice person that deserves to be with someone at this stage of life. And he picked Victoria. That's his choice. Messaging her family is fucked up and way out of line. The blog shouldn't condone that."
But despite the controversy and gossip surrounding their union, Aaron and Victoria appeared to be extremely happy. Pictures of them together on their social media show them smiling and seemingly in love. Here's a video Aaron posted on October 18th, 2020 of he and Victoria together during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Chapter 6: What were the circumstances leading to Mark Constantino's arrest?
Chapter 7: How did Nick Groff respond to the events surrounding the Constantinos?
Oh, now you let go! You are shaking. Are you okay?
I'm literally gonna crap my pants. Oh, no. You got it. You got it. You got it. Proud of you, hon.
I'm freaking out. I'm sweating so bad. My arm hurts. My hand.
I think you crushed it.
We're at threat level midnight right now. Feel my heartbeat. Oh my God. I am terrified. You made it, hon. I'm finally free. I'm proud of you.
Fans of Aaron's would even comment on his pictures that he seemed happier than ever, and maybe that was the case for him. But it's safe to say that his wife Victoria was not happy in her marriage, because unbeknownst to Aaron, Victoria had a secret pen pal named Grant Amato, a man who was in prison for brutally murdering his entire family.
Grant Amato grew up in Chuluota, Florida, with his brother Cody and his parents Chad and Margaret. Both of his parents worked in the medical field, so they had a very privileged life, and both Cody and Grant decided to follow in their parents' footsteps.
The brothers both studied nursing at the University of Central Florida, Cody would go on to work as a nursed anesthesiologist at Orlando Regional Medical Center, and Grant took a nursing job at Advent Health Orlando. From the outside looking in, they seemed like a very successful family, who all worked in the medical field. But Grant Amato would soon get into some trouble.
While on the job, he was suspected of stealing prescription medications. He was also accused of illegally administering the drug propofol to patients, which is a powerful anesthetic. So, they fired him. Following his termination, it was reported that Grant became really depressed. And to distract himself from everything, he started spending a lot of time online.
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