130 million people take road trips every year, 15,400 of them are never seen ...
story of the passenger that's been circulating online lately? A young couple set out on a van-life
โtrip, but a few nights in, they came across a brutal car accident on the side of the road.โ
I'm not talking about a typical crash, something about this was off, and there's one detail that keeps coming up. The car they found had three deep scratches carved into the side, not dense, scratches, they stopped, they saw it, and then they left. But here's where things got strange. Not long after, creepy things start happening. They began to feel like they weren't alone in the
van, like something followed them from that road. People online have started connecting it to
something they're calling the passenger. Supposedly, it attaches itself to anyone who encounters
โit and marks their car with three scratches. And once that happens, it doesn't let go. If theseโ
reports are true, this couple didn't just witness something on that highway, they carried it with them. From Andre Ovidal, director of autopsy of Jane Doe, comes passenger. Only in theaters may 22nd, get tickets now. Hello dear listeners, do I have a doozy of a bonus for you? This is an episode of the antiquarium of documented atrocities. The story you're about to hear is true. And I have been told by the creators, fair warning, it's a really brutal case, so I wanted to give you a heads up.
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Just after midnight, on August 13, 2020, three young adults gathered on the floor of a hundred-year-old house in Spokane, Washington.
How are things going? At first, at first we were like, it was pre-reader playing a wager board,
playing on a wager board. Yeah. And he, Anthony was talking about how he wants to summon a demon into the house, even though he thinks the house is full of his spirits, and some of the man sozo or whatever he wanted to do, he was like begging for those other common, like, you know, be there. I asked there a couple of things and got some interesting answers. It wasn't long after when dispatches received a disturbing call from the residents,
the caller is frantic, words overlap in a cavalcade of terror. Hello, sorry.
โYes, ma'am, this is one of what, where are you at right now?โ
Is it your boyfriend that's sad, but that makes sense, that's really great. Okay. We're working there, okay. Police arrived to find Anthony Bryan's newed on the bedroom floor, covered in blood. 19-year-old Edward Martinez is on the run. Tonight's case file follows a night of fun that God way out of hand. Hailey, hailey, look at me, okay. Hailey, don't look at me.
What you are about to hear describes real events, some of which may be unsettling.
Listen to discretion, he's advised.
Good evening, you've reached the quiet end of the Antiquarium. Tonight we step briefly into the
โback room I keep closed to the passing crowd. I call it the Archive of Malorum, a simple name for aโ
simple purpose, a private archive of documents, reports, recordings, and a grim accounts of human darkness that history tries to misplace. This is case number A, 004, the Weage aboard threesome. Welcome to the Antiquarium of sinister happenings and documented atrocities. [Music]
The earliest confirmed timestamp in the case is not a knife or a scream or a struggle.
It's a call received a little before 6 in the morning on August 13, 2020.
โThe callers described by Spokane Police as a distraught female reporting a stabbing,โ
saying her boyfriend had viciously attacked her ex husband and fled. That single sentence contains the shape of the entire story about to unfold. Boyfriend, ex husband, one address, one night, and a violent act that collapses whatever fragile arrangement had been holding them together. But that arrangement did not begin as a crime story. It began as a marriage. [Music]
Just prior to this. He just stabbed, and he was only to it, and I don't know why. Was everybody drinking today? Yeah. Okay, so you guys were all messing around on the better, what started what precipitated the stabbing? I think that he couldn't get there. Everything
โgot hard, and I think that he was just insulated for something. Buy your ex, so if that's why he'sโ
new, okay, how did the stabbing occur? We were just messing around with bed, and he said it was okay, and the next thing I knew. Said what was okay. Edward said it was okay that we were messing around. Okay, and then he searched having Anthony in the bag and Anthony said, "How stop? What are you doing?" And I just don't tell him that he just kept stabbing. [Music]
Haley Davis and Anthony Brian's, a corrections officer, were married, and living in Spokane. At some point, after an argument, Haley left for the tri- cities to be with family. While there, she downloaded a dating app, where she met 19-year-old Edward Martinez from Sacramento, California. Their relationship formed quickly, and less than a week later, Haley drove the Sacramento to live with him. Within a month, the two of them returned to Spokane to collect Haley's
belongings at the home she had shared with her husband Anthony. Although allegedly, Eddie didn't know the couple wasn't yet divorced. Anthony was well aware about the relationship the two shared, and appeared to be okay with it, even letting them live with him for close to three months. Haley and Eddie didn't have enough money to get back to California. Anthony still loved his wife, and because he did, felt like he was best,
if he befriended Martinez and helped them out.
Jurors were later told that Anthony also wanted to ultimately reconcile with Haley.
Sources do not describe constant chaos in these months. A later Spokane review report described them as living there, seemingly without any issues.
That is, of course, until the evening of August 12th.
Haley Davis, 22, and the two men were enjoying the night, drinking gin, and smoking marijuana,
โeven taking time out to conduct a say-ons in an attempt to conjure up a demon.โ
Eventually, Haley and her estranged husband agreed to have group sex. At about 3.30 a.m., the trio heads to the master bedroom. What happens next is a sequence of events that prosecutors and defense attorneys would later argue about.
Because the legal difference between first degree murder and a lesser homicide turns on one,
single word, premeditation. But the record contains an emission from Eddie that prosecutors relied upon. But the premeditation began in the bedroom.
โThe court opinion describes this point with unusual clarity.โ
Davis and Martinez began having sex, but according to her, after experiencing some performance difficulties, Martinez decides to leave the festivities to use the bathroom. He returns and proceeds to watch Davis and Brian's engage in intercourse. Haley stops and approaches Eddie again, trying to get him involved. Haley is concerned when Eddie begins what she describes as "maniacle laughing."
It is later that Eddie admits his premeditation started regarding the murder of Anthony Brian's. He himself confesses to the detective that he was, quote, "smiling and laughing at her in a really
โfucked-up way," end quote. "And that he does this when he gets sadistic."โ
In other words, the decision is not described as something that arrives after the fact or as an interpretation placed on him by investigators. The record reflects him giving it a name. The court opinion describes an interval that becomes central. Martinez thinks for a moment. He told investigators during questioning that he started to feel a deep anger inside, just building and building. He decides he needs to find a knife and leaves the
bedroom again. "Just like a place switch." "Just like a place switch." "No, it's scary thing on his own." When Eddie gets back, he sits on the end of the bed and suggests Davis and Brian's changed positions. Haley gets on her hands and knees facing the headboard with Anthony behind her. When they resume into course, Eddie approaches and begins to stab Anthony in the back. Anthony yells at him to stop when Eddie then pushes him off the bed and continues stabbing him in
the chest. "In the time do you think he's stabbing him?" "Oh, God, so much!" "And before I die, he was like punching
him out first, and it was probably because of me." "16 times. We're going the back and the chest."
"I can clearly hear each of the holes like gasing for a breath in his lungs." All in all, Brian sustained 20 separate stab wounds. 14 to the chest and abdomen, five to the back, and one to the right arm. He suffers injuries to several organs, including both lungs, the liver, spleen, and large and small intestines. Haley immediately calls 911, throwing her phone under the bed so
that Eddie couldn't disconnect the call. Eddie grabs her by the wrists and throws her on the mattress,
telling her to get her belongings and go with him to California saying, "You never loved me,
did you?" "And I fucking killed him." He flees before officers arrived, leaving the bloody knife in the living room on top of the fireplace mantle. Despite medical intervention and emergency transport to the local hospital, Anthony does not survive. Meanwhile, while the scene is still active, and a perimeter is established. A K-19 tracks down Martinez after a citizen tick comes in with a location.
"I've got a call on the other line.
thinking he was running for his life. It's a strict phone number." "Basin Spokane, yeah." "Yeah, okay, let me bring her on." "Okay, man, you're connected with Spokane, please go ahead." "How long has it go to your son, call you?" "It's 708." "It's about 5-7 minutes ago, and he said he was running for his life,
โdid he say where he was at?" "That's what he told us, and he said he used that to the 1500 blockโ
of what we had when we were in Spokane watching us." "There's a park near there, and he was walking in there, running in an alley and saw some stranger and asked if he could use the phone." "He has taken into custody, without incident, and brought to the detective's office to be interviewed." Coming up, the moment questioning stops, followed by a single sentence that reopens the door. Welcome to the Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings, and documented atrocities.
The Ouija board threesome.
130 million people take road trips every year. 15,400 of them are never seen again. Have you heard
โthe story of the passenger that's been circulating online lately? A young couple set out on aโ
van-life trip, but a few nights in, they came across a brutal car accident on the side of the road. I'm not talking about a typical crash, something about this was off, and there's one detail that keeps coming up. The car they found had three deep scratches carved into the side, not dense, scratches, they stopped, they saw it, and then they left. But here's where things got strange. Not long after, creepy things start happening. They began to feel like they weren't alone in the van,
like something followed them from that road. People online have started connecting it to something they're calling the passenger. Supposedly, it attaches itself to anyone who encounters it and marks their car with three scratches. And once that happens, it doesn't let go. If these reports are true, this couple didn't just witness something on that highway, they carried it with them. From Andre overdol, director of autopsy of Jane Doe, comes passenger. Only in theaters may
20 second, get tickets now. Before we return to the archive, I'm a matter of public safety.
The FBI is seeking information on the whereabouts of Joe Matthew Constance. He has said to have been less seen forcing his way into his estranged wife's residence in Calcissue Parish, Louisiana. On June 5, 2011, threatening the shoot two of the occupants, and physically assaulting another one while demanding to know her whereabouts. When he located heard another area of the home, he allegedly shot and killed her before fleeing the area. He is wanted for first-degree murder,
aggravated assault, and aggravated burglary. Joe is a white male born in 1967, 6 foot 2, 190 to 220 pounds. He has a tattoo on his left arm and a mole on his neck. He should be considered armed and dangerous. If you have information on his whereabouts, contact your nearest FBI field office or submit a confidential tip at tips.fbi.gov. Do not approach this individual. Now, back to the archive of them.
19-year-old Edward Martinez finds himself in a police interrogation room in Spokane, Washington, handcuffed to the floor, by a chain. He is interviewed by Brian Sessnik of the Spokane Police
โDepartment. With these rights and mind, do you wish to answer my questions?โ
Is it alright if I have a word present? Do you would like a lawyer? Yes. It is. Upon ceasing questioning, Detective Sessnik informs Martinez that he will be booked into jail
for first agreement. This moment becomes the hinge.
So, what's going to happen? We have someone come in here. They're going to search warrant to get photographs, buckle swans, which is your DNA. They'll be in here when that's done. You're going to be booked in a jail. You're going to be charged with first-degree murder.
Okay.
you said you want to talk to me about this. You can always send a cape.
โYeah. I don't need a lawyer. Forget that. I don't know what I did and I'm not going to do that.โ
Eddie waves his rights and begins to talk. The trial court finds no threats, coercion or promises, and concludes his waiver as voluntary. All further statements he makes are now admissible. The court of appeals later affirms. From there, the factual narrative of the homicide becomes fused to Martinez' own recorded account, as the court opinion sites specific timestamps from the interview exhibit when describing his admissions. He talks about returning to the bedroom
and seeing Brian's engaged in intercourse with Davis, being told to join in and his internal shift. Haley comes onto me, wants me to have sex with her, right in front of him, and he's sitting like right there, like on the corner. I've had that distance from the bed, and so who's room are you in now? I mean, we're at ours. He's just in there. It was really drunk, so I couldn't, you know, I couldn't work anything up for some reason. I get that drunk sometimes.
I can't, my body just goes numb. And so you can get hard. Yeah, basically.
โThat's what happens next. She starts trying to get me somewhere. It's not working. We start messingโ
around and then Anthony starts coming up, rubbing mine in her feet, and it made me feel uncomfortable, but, you know, I was already uncomfortable, so I just like added to it, and I just, I don't know, I started feeling a deep anger inside of me, just building, building. And like after a while, I literally took a step in the bathroom, the light wasn't on, and all I can think of my head, as soon as I walk in that bathroom, it's like literally I went to find a knife, and then
velocity, and then obviously went back to the bedroom. Right. And I'm sorry, into them. No, I actually kind of did this pretty sneaky, and that's what I felt bad about, and that was pretty sadistic about it. I took the knife, and I literally hit it between my last cheeks. So no,
โlet's see me walking, and you were completely naked. Yeah, that's why. Yeah.โ
He admits the stabbing begins in the back, and continues after he pushes Anthony off the bed,
and ends with stabbing him in the chest. And I just did what I never thought I would do ever.
It was when I came back in a little taking a piss, and I see him, now get them, telling me to join him, knowing that I came out, I'm not going to, and I don't know what it was, but just seeing that and thinking about everything else, adding up. I felt like nothing mattered, and like literally, I said, "F**k it." And I, I, I feel bad about it now. I, I, I feel remorse now. I genuinely miss Anthony, because he, he wasn't a right friend. I don't know what drove me to
take his life. I couldn't stop. I'm like, it, because I used to go hunting. And so I know the feeling of taking life. I used to, like, whenever we get a deer, the dog would go fetch it, and it wasn't quite dead. When you shoot over the shotgun, brings it back. I had to snap the nexus on him, and that actually gave me a rush. It's pretty, pretty harsh. I haven't gone nothing it so long. Crucially, he identifies the start of pre-meditation as occurring in the bedroom,
before the weapon is achieved. This is the spin prosecutors later frame, as choice, a decision, a pause long enough to form intent, followed by movement, out of the room, into the living room, and back again. After the interrogation, he took time to write a letter to his girlfriend to apologize. According to court records it included, "Hey babe, I'm not going to see you for a while. I fucked up. I ruined our lives." In September 2020, the state of Washington
charges Edward Martinez, with pre-meditated murder in the first degree. He was incarcerated in the
Spokane County jail on a $1 million bond.
court, motions, hearings, the confession hearing, the management of evidence, and witness preparation.
โThe case wouldn't go to trial until April 2023, when Eddie is 22 years old.โ
The jury hears the state's theory and the defense response. Deputy prosecuting attorney, Michael Joel Stead, characterizes the case as a series of choices, culminating in the moment Martinez chooses to get a knife and stab Brian's with intent to kill. The defense disputes pre-meditation. In a later sentencing report, defense attorney Chris Bugbeat argues the murder was not flat, saying Eddie did not know the episode would occur that night. He told jurors that his
client was manipulated and abused by both Anthony and his wife to a breaking point that ended with an unintentional fatal stabbing. According to him, Eddie was under severe emotional pressure
โfrom his two sexual partners, a pressure that caused him to lash out uncontrollably and unexpectedly.โ
This girl has created this situation. This person who stabbed my nephew she is just as responsible for this as he is. The wage award was also a factor. Martinez stating he felt like something overtook him after taking part in the demonic sayons. Defense also went on to suggest that Haley began the relationship simply to get back at her husband and that Anthony was just going along with the program to get his wife back.
Even alleging that the two had been communicating behind Eddie's back with plans to send him back to Sacramento with an airplane ticket. Those arguments occur against the medical facts and the admission in the recorded interview. The jury returns a verdict.
Edward Martinez has found guilty of first degree murder. At sentencing,
Spokane County Superior Court Judge John Coney sentencing his Martinez to 324 months, 27 years in prison. The sentencing report includes impact statements from Bryan's family members describing their loss and the court's remarks on the sheer brutality of the stabbing. Martinez appeals. He argues the trial court aired by admitting his confession and that there was insufficient evidence to prove premeditation. On February 11, 2025, the Washington Court of Appeals division 3
affirms the conviction and the trial court's rulings. The opinion concludes that viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the state. A rational tier of fact could have found premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt. Noting that Martinez procured a weapon brought it to the bedroom and confessed to premeditating the killing. As for Haley Davis, the sources provided here established her role as the caller and is the link between the two men,
wife of Anthony Bryan's and romantic partner of Edward Martinez at the time of the homicide.
โAnd he ever has a goal between you and him, and ever before, and that's how no fighting inโ
all. However, how was you in Andy's relationship? As obviously, I can only imagine the stress of that put on. Well, our relationship was pretty Iraqi for a while. They're not too Iraqi, we are genuinely loving each other, at least I feel like even if whatever happens, you know, you can imagine honestly feel like we ever get on a way. You do. She's pregnant. I did not know that. What do you want me to tell Haley?
It's still a lot. It's possible if I can write it down a letter or something. Absolutely. I'd rather just do that. There are cases built out of strangers and unknown suspect, a random victim, a motive
that has never fully mapped. This one is built out of something smaller and more suffocating.
Three people who know each other, sharing one address, and one night that begins with intoxication
Suggestion, and ends with a decision made in a bedroom.
Anthony R. Brimes, and the plane arithmetic of time, 25 years lived, at an absence that does not
โdiminish with sentencing dates or a pellet opinions. For tonight, that is as far as the record willโ
take us. I'll close the folder on this case, return it to its place in the Archive of Malorum, and lock the door behind us. How dare caution is its own kind of protection. Walk wisely, until next time. The antiquarium of sinister happenings and documented atrocities. Case number A-004, the
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