Speaker 1: When dispatchers in Spokane, Washington answer a.
Speaker 2: 911 call, an urgent cry for help is followed by
Speaker 2: chaos and screaming on the other end of the line.
Speaker 3: Police respond to a scene where a man lies naked
Speaker 3: and stabbed.
Speaker 4: A woman stands soaked in his blood, and a third
Speaker 4: person has vanished, leaving behind a trail of questions and
Speaker 4: the fractured remains of a night gone horribly wrong. The
Speaker 4: following is based on official police records, and the footage
Speaker 4: has never been seen before until now. It's just before
Speaker 4: 6 a.m. on August 13th, 2020, when the call comes in.
Speaker 5: 911, what are you reporting?
Speaker 1: Hello, um, I'm, um, I'm in the family at my house.
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 5: Ma'am, I can barely hear you.
Speaker 1: What's going on there? Please don't do this to me.
Speaker 5: Ma'am, what is the location?
Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
Speaker 5: Hello, sir.
Speaker 1: Ma'am. Hello, is anyone there? Yes, ma'am. This is 911.
Speaker 1: Where are you at right now?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Ma'am, are you with him right now? Okay.
Speaker 9: Where is the.
Speaker 1: Person that you stabbed in?
Speaker 2: He ran away?
Speaker 1: Yes, please help. Please hurry.
Speaker 9: He's not doing well.
Speaker 1: I love you. Kaylee, do you know who did this?
Speaker 1: His name is Edward Martinez. Edward Andrew Martinez.
Speaker 10: And is it your boyfriend that stabbed?
Speaker 9: My boyfriend stabbed my ex-husband. He should hardly breathe.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 10: I really need medical assistance.
Speaker 1: We're getting there, okay?
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: The assailant, 19-year-old Edward Eddie Martinez, has already fled on foot.
Speaker 4: Officers arrive to find the neighborhood quiet, one pausing on
Speaker 4: the sidewalk to question nearby residents.
Speaker 6: You guys see anybody take off from here? You guys
Speaker 6: see anybody run away from here?
Speaker 4: Although officers don't yet realize the horrific scene waiting just
Speaker 4: inside the house, they're about to witness it firsthand. Still
Speaker 4: on the phone with Haley, the dispatcher attempts to get
Speaker 4: more information to help guide them to the residence.
Speaker 5: What color is your house? The house that you're at.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 5: Help me, Haley.
Speaker 8: Haley, come out front.
Speaker 11: Make yourself known to officers.
Speaker 1: You can. You can, because the sooner you come out,
Speaker 1: the sooner we can help him.
Speaker 5: Okay, come out front.
Speaker 10: Come on out.
Speaker 1: Who else is in here?
Speaker 9: Who else is in here?
Speaker 1: Where's our victim at? Dog's friendly? Hi, dog.
Speaker 6: Hi, puppy.
Speaker 4: No, it's okay.
Speaker 6: Where's he at?
Speaker 5: Dog's door.
Speaker 3: Dog's door.
Speaker 7: He's in here.
Speaker 9: Dog's door.
Speaker 6: Keep that door open.
Speaker 7: Keep that door open so our artists can come in.
Speaker 10: Spokane police. Spokane police.
Speaker 7: Anybody else in here, man? Yeah, we need mag supplies now.
Speaker 4: 25-year-old Anthony lies nude on the bedroom floor, drenched in
Speaker 4: blood and barely clinging to life.
Speaker 2: Paramedics rush to Anthony's aid but with little room to work,
Speaker 2: they quickly ready a gurney to move him outside.
Speaker 12: Meanwhile, an officer attempts to get critical information from Haley
Speaker 12: about the missing suspect.
Speaker 13: Okay, quickly, I know this is traumatic, and I'm going
Speaker 13: to have a bunch of questions.
Speaker 6: This is okay. We've got to start with the very basic.
Speaker 9: He's not from here. He doesn't know the area very well.
Speaker 9: His name is Edward Andrew Martinez.
Speaker 3: He's from Sacramento, California.
Speaker 6: Okay. Where was he last seen?
Speaker 9: He was begging me to come out with him. I
Speaker 9: was in the bedroom holding him.
Speaker 6: Come out where?
Speaker 9: He begged me to take him somewhere.
Speaker 6: He didn't grab the cars.
Speaker 9: He begged me to drive him somewhere.
Speaker 6: Where did he go?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 3: The only place he knows is J & K, liquor up.
Speaker 6: Last time you saw him, what was he wearing?
Speaker 3: He was wearing blue denim shorts, and he was wearing
Speaker 3: dark blue loafers, and he.
Speaker 9: Was wearing a shirt, a t-shirt. I don't remember what
Speaker 9: color it was.
Speaker 1: What color?
Speaker 6: You don't remember?
Speaker 9: No, I only saw his bottom half. I was telling
Speaker 9: him to get out.
Speaker 4: Paramedics attempt to control Anthony's bleeding, but with countless stab
Speaker 4: wounds ravaging his body, their efforts are quickly overwhelmed.
Speaker 6: Everywhere, upper torso, couple on the back. Do we have
Speaker 6: one more sticker?
Speaker 3: It's got an uncovered stab wound up here, right?
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You want to start compression? Yeah, we're going to start compression.
Speaker 7: Are we going to work in here or are.
Speaker 9: We just going to go?
Speaker 7: That's it, let's go.
Speaker 6: Do you need another sticker? Does it matter at this point?
Speaker 6: If you have one, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 7: We're leaking big time.
Speaker 5: You just want to leave us.
Speaker 13: With every sticker you got.
Speaker 4: The officer continues pressing Haley for details about the suspect
Speaker 4: and soon learns the three share a far more tangled
Speaker 4: relationship than he could have ever imagined.
Speaker 6: How do you know him?
Speaker 3: We met online a few weeks ago.
Speaker 13: Were you guys in a dating relationship or something?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we were.
Speaker 3: Talking online for like a week or two and I
Speaker 3: went down to California and picked.
Speaker 6: Him up and brought him down here. So has he
Speaker 6: been living here?
Speaker 9: Yes, he's been living here for about two months.
Speaker 6: The male who's been injured?
Speaker 9: He's my ex-husband.
Speaker 6: Does he live here as well?
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 6: Did he, did those two get into it over something?
Speaker 3: We were, I don't, I'm sorry to disclose so much,
Speaker 3: but we were all like messing around in the bedroom.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 9: And he just.
Speaker 6: Just prior to this?
Speaker 9: And he just snapped. And he was all into it.
Speaker 9: And I don't know why.
Speaker 6: Was everybody drinking today?
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 13: So you guys were all messing around in the bedroom.
Speaker 13: What started, what precipitated this?
Speaker 6: The stabbing.
Speaker 3: I think that he couldn't get there, or he couldn't
Speaker 3: get hard, and I think that he was just intimidated
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 6: By your ex? So that's why he's nude?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: How did the stabbing occur?
Speaker 9: Just messing around on the bed. And he said it
Speaker 9: was okay. And the next thing I know..
Speaker 6: He said what was okay?
Speaker 9: Edward said it was okay that we were messing around.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 9: And then he started stabbing Anthony in the back and
Speaker 9: Anthony said, Al, stop.
Speaker 6: What are you doing?
Speaker 9: And I just jumped off the bed.
Speaker 3: He just kept going on and Anthony was around the
Speaker 3: bedroom trying to get away. Okay.
Speaker 9: He just kept stabbing him.
Speaker 6: Okay, so he was trying to flee you while they
Speaker 6: were in there? Are you injured?
Speaker 9: No, I'm not. I told him I was so he'd leave.
Speaker 4: The officer escorts Haley to his cruiser where she can
Speaker 4: stay warm. given that all she's wearing is a blood-soaked robe.
Speaker 4: The front seat affords her a clear view of paramedics
Speaker 4: fighting to save Anthony.
Speaker 6: It's okay. So he's got a pulse. He's all right. Okay?
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 6: Haley?
Speaker 12: Haley?
Speaker 13: I need you to listen to me, all right? We
Speaker 13: need to think real, real hard where he would have gone.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 9: He really doesn't know anything down here. We go to
Speaker 9: the dispensary.
Speaker 6: Does he have any friends here?
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 9: He's literally got no one here.
Speaker 3: Oh, God.
Speaker 6: Haley, Haley, look at me, okay? Haley, don't look over there. Oh, no.
Speaker 4: Anthony is loaded into the ambulance, which makes its way
Speaker 4: to a nearby hospital.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 6: No, I understand. I understand.
Speaker 4: Officers secure the house with police tape and begin searching
Speaker 4: the vehicles in the driveway in case Eddie may have
Speaker 4: hidden inside. During their search, they discover a uniform, which
Speaker 4: Haley clarifies belongs to Anthony, who works as a correctional officer. Afterward,
Speaker 4: the officers share grim remarks about the severity of Anthony's injuries.
Speaker 6: There were a lot on his back. Singer's sewing machine.
Speaker 5: I was looking at his front.
Speaker 6: He was stabbed up here. Chin sliced open. Stomach and
Speaker 6: that rolled him over. And he had four more on
Speaker 6: his back.
Speaker 12: I'd say he was upwards of 20, 20 established. Well,
Speaker 12: they were in the middle of having intercourse. And so
Speaker 12: they were all kind of intermingled with that. But suspects
Speaker 12: are stabbing victim in the back. And then they started
Speaker 12: running around suspect chasing.
Speaker 7: And then it was.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: As they continue, one officer shares the reason for their
Speaker 4: delayed entry into the house.
Speaker 5: When Macbeth and.
Speaker 12: I pulled up, we're looking around like there's no screaming,
Speaker 12: there's no sound.
Speaker 6: That was sounding kind of weird.
Speaker 12: And I was like, are we sure? And then she
Speaker 12: finally came out and I was like, yeah, we're at
Speaker 12: the right house.
Speaker 7: Was he conscious? The victim?
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say conscious.
Speaker 12: But he was taking some gasping breaths, and he would
Speaker 12: move every once in a while.
Speaker 6: That's called agonal breathing.
Speaker 10: Not good.
Speaker 12: He was down to, like, low 40s, and they picked
Speaker 12: him up and carried him out on his own.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool. There was some of that, like, conviction.
Speaker 14: Well, but, yeah.
Speaker 12: He had bubbles come out of his armpit. I've never
Speaker 12: seen so many chest seals on one person.
Speaker 4: Haley provides officers with a photo of Eddie to help
Speaker 4: them as they organize a search. Still, her greatest concern
Speaker 4: is for Anthony, fearing that any hope of saving him
Speaker 4: is already gone.
Speaker 13: I'm not trying to give you false hope, but I'll
Speaker 13: tell you too, if he was expired, that ambulance would
Speaker 13: have never left this location.
Speaker 6: So he was alive when he left here.
Speaker 9: I feel so incredibly guilty. I don't even have a
Speaker 9: stab wound. Like, I didn't even protect them, you know?
Speaker 6: Well, sounds like it happened really fast.
Speaker 9: Did I?
Speaker 6: I don't even know.
Speaker 4: A canine tracker and drone operator work together to scour
Speaker 4: the neighborhood, hoping that Eddie may still be somewhere nearby,
Speaker 4: but there's no trace of him, until 7.13 a.m., when
Speaker 4: Sacramento dispatchers contact Spokane police.
Speaker 10: Crime Check, what are you reporting?
Speaker 5: Hi, my name's Katie.
Speaker 10: I'm a dispatcher with Sacramento Police Dispatch. I've got a
Speaker 10: caller on the other line whose son called them from Spokane, Washington,
Speaker 10: saying he was running for his life.
Speaker 7: Is this the correct phone number?
Speaker 10: She's in Spokane, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. Let me bring her on.
Speaker 7: Okay, ma'am, you're connected with Spokane Police.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 10: How long ago did your son call you?
Speaker 1: At 7.08.
Speaker 10: So about five, seven minutes ago. And he said he
Speaker 10: was running for his life. Did he say where he
Speaker 10: was at?
Speaker 5: That's what he told us. And he said he's at
Speaker 5: the 1500 block of Wesley Avenue there in Spokane, Washington.
Speaker 10: There's a park near there.
Speaker 1: And he was.
Speaker 5: Walking in there, running in an alley and saw some
Speaker 5: stranger and asked if he could use the phone.
Speaker 10: Any reason why he didn't call 911 himself?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: What's his first name?
Speaker 12: His first name is Edward.
Speaker 7: Edward?
Speaker 10: Let me see if we've got any calls from an Edward.
Speaker 5: One sec.
Speaker 10: No, it doesn't look like it. Seems odd that he
Speaker 10: wouldn't call 911 and just call family in another state.
Speaker 10: Did he say exactly what was going on? He just
Speaker 10: said that he was running for his life.
Speaker 4: Following the tip on his location, Eddie was quickly found
Speaker 4: and arrested without incident, which was relayed over the radio
Speaker 4: to the canine search unit.
Speaker 1: Yo! Sweet.
Speaker 6: Atta boy. Surprised that went peacefully.
Speaker 7: Well, thanks a lot for calling. Right? Heck yeah.
Speaker 4: Eddie is taken to the police station for an interrogation,
Speaker 4: where detectives will soon try to unravel how a seemingly
Speaker 4: consensual encounter erupted into a violent bloodbath. As he waits
Speaker 4: for the interview to begin, his unsettled voice fills the
Speaker 4: empty room.
Speaker 5: It's me.
Speaker 1: It's me.
Speaker 7: I just want to stay in the area.
Speaker 14: I want to be in the area where people can
Speaker 14: find me. And the place is still locked down and
Speaker 14: locked in. It doesn't mean I should have taken his life.
Speaker 14: He's tired of being a man, Roy. He's tired of it.
Speaker 7: It's mine.
Speaker 15: Eddie?
Speaker 7: Edward?
Speaker 11: When do you prefer to go back?
Speaker 14: Eddie.
Speaker 1: Eddie?
Speaker 7: My name is Brian Sesnick. I'm a detective with the
Speaker 7: police department. Detective Doug Strosol.
Speaker 6: Did I tell you this room is recorded?
Speaker 7: Audio and video recorded? Obviously it's a police station. These
Speaker 7: two are my crazy empty thoughts. Well, the reason I'm
Speaker 7: here is obviously that I know what happened.
Speaker 5: That's my job.
Speaker 16: My hope is that I can just talk to you
Speaker 16: and tell me whatever you want.
Speaker 7: I'm just here to get your facts.
Speaker 4: The detective reads and explains his Miranda rights before continuing.
Speaker 7: With these rights in mind, do you wish to answer
Speaker 7: my questions? Is it All right, if I have a
Speaker 7: lawyer present. You would like a lawyer? Yes.
Speaker 14: It is.
Speaker 4: Though it seems the interview is over before it begins,
Speaker 4: what the detective shares next changes everything.
Speaker 16: So what's going to happen? We're going to have someone
Speaker 16: come in here. We're seeking a search.
Speaker 7: Warrant to get photographs, buckle swabs, which is your DNA.
Speaker 16: They'll be in here. When that's done, you're going to
Speaker 16: be booked into jail. You're going to be charged with
Speaker 16: first-degree murder.
Speaker 7: Okay. He's dead. He is dead? You killed him.
Speaker 16: If you change your mind and decide you want to
Speaker 16: talk to me about this, you can always.
Speaker 7: Send a kite. Yeah. I don't need a lawyer. Forget that.
Speaker 7: I know what I did, and I'm not going to
Speaker 7: deny it.
Speaker 4: Eddie has read his rights once more before questioning begins.
Speaker 16: So before we go into everything, I just want to ask,
Speaker 16: what Why did you say you wanted.
Speaker 7: An attorney and then decide to talk? Is it because
Speaker 7: you didn't think he was dead? I mean, what? No,
Speaker 7: I was just, I don't know, thinking too much about it.
Speaker 7: Thinking too much about it. I've been thinking about it
Speaker 7: too much lately.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 7: What's going on with your life?
Speaker 17: I've just been f * * * ing off a
Speaker 17: lot and I'm like, just not doing the right thing
Speaker 17: and it took me over mentally and I thought I
Speaker 17: was going crazy. I literally thought that there's like someone
Speaker 17: else in my head.
Speaker 7: Like I'm not the only one in my head. I
Speaker 7: might need testing because I don't know. Do you have
Speaker 7: a counselor?
Speaker 14: No. Right.
Speaker 7: What are the tattoos? Oh, that's a tree of life.
Speaker 7: What about the K on your finger? My girlfriend's got
Speaker 7: a matching Q.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
Speaker 7: Does it mean anything or is it just because we're together?
Speaker 7: Just because you're together. Probably not anymore, but yeah.
Speaker 4: Eddie explains he first met Haley on the dating app Badoo.
Speaker 2: I guess I was the first one to like her
Speaker 2: on the profile and she matched with me. And from there,
Speaker 2: we just clicked. It just felt so natural talking to her.
Speaker 2: You know, I was at a point in time where
Speaker 2: I just couldn't trust anybody around me. Even people that
Speaker 2: I loved sometimes I just thought were shifty and.
Speaker 7: I've just been seeing things in an early f *
Speaker 7: * * ed up way.
Speaker 4: He tells the detective that Haley lived with him temporarily
Speaker 4: in Sacramento before deciding to return home to Spokane.
Speaker 7: I wasn't going to stop her. And a lot changed
Speaker 7: after that.
Speaker 2: I literally just cut everybody off for my new wife.
Speaker 7: What all did you know about her at that point? Well,
Speaker 7: I knew..
Speaker 2: Her situation, which she was still living with her husband,
Speaker 2: who she claims to be divorced with.
Speaker 4: Although Haley described Anthony as her ex-husband, their divorce wasn't
Speaker 4: yet finalized at the time of the incident.
Speaker 7: And I, at.
Speaker 2: First, was okay with the idea of it because I
Speaker 2: didn't think any, she told me, you know, he's not
Speaker 2: going to be on no weird s * * *.
Speaker 2: He's not going to do the things that he did
Speaker 2: do and did drive me off the edge.
Speaker 7: So how was the living situation in the house? It
Speaker 7: was For a while, it just functioned. Everything just worked.
Speaker 7: And there were moments.
Speaker 2: Where I would find text messages between them of things
Speaker 2: I didn't want to see. And I kept telling her
Speaker 2: about it. I keep telling her, and she keeps ignoring it.
Speaker 4: After news of Anthony's murder broke to his family, some
Speaker 4: were quick to point blame at Haley.
Speaker 5: I'm curious, have they arrested his wife? Anthony's wife. If not,
Speaker 5: y'all need to put her in cuffs.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 5: And so for what reason?
Speaker 10: Apparently, what they.
Speaker 5: Said on KH2 on their website said that the two
Speaker 5: men live together.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 5: Anthony's married.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 5: The suspect is his wife's boyfriend. I just think that
Speaker 5: she needs... She needs to be looked at pretty seriously.
Speaker 1: This girl has created this situation. This person who stabbed
Speaker 1: my nephew, she is just as responsible for this as
Speaker 1: he is.
Speaker 4: But as investigators have learned, things among the three seemed
Speaker 4: cordial until last night, when, according to Eddie, everything shifted
Speaker 4: after they began partying and playing an unusual game.
Speaker 7: We started taking shots of James. How many shots did
Speaker 7: y'all take? I mean, did you polish off a bottle
Speaker 7: and just take a couple? We had like four shots each.
Speaker 2: It was like one of the bigger Master Jam gin bottles.
Speaker 7: And we just took that. We also took a couple
Speaker 7: of dabs. You know dabs, right? Well, you tell me.
Speaker 7: We're on the same page. It's like a THC. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 7: wax and they get it really hot and inhaled it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 7: And so y'all were sitting around doing that. How were
Speaker 7: things going at first? At first we were playing, it
Speaker 7: was pretty weird. We were playing on a Ouija board.
Speaker 7: Playing on a Ouija board?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And he, Anthony was talking about how he wants to
Speaker 2: summon a demon into the house, even though he thinks
Speaker 2: the house is full of good spirits and.
Speaker 7: Summoned a named Zozo or whatever he.
Speaker 2: Wanted to he was like begging for Zozo to come
Speaker 2: and like you know be there and the thing moved
Speaker 2: to where he wasn't going to be there like they
Speaker 2: said no and I asked it a couple things and
Speaker 2: got some interesting answers.
Speaker 4: After attempting a demonic summoning through the Ouija board, they
Speaker 4: turned on some music and sometime after midnight, Eddie says
Speaker 4: that Haley came to him with a proposition.
Speaker 2: Haley comes on to me, wants me to have sex
Speaker 2: with her, right in front of him. And he's sitting
Speaker 2: like right there, like on the corner, at that distance
Speaker 2: from the bed.
Speaker 7: So whose room are you in now? We're in ours.
Speaker 7: He's just in there.
Speaker 4: However, Eddie's version of what happened doesn't quite align with
Speaker 4: what Haley told an officer at the crime scene.
Speaker 9: I don't know, like, he just got too f *
Speaker 9: * * ed up tonight or just lost it or what.
Speaker 13: And he wasn't doing anything besides smoking weed and drinking gin?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 9: And it was their plan. Like, I, like, went in
Speaker 9: on it.
Speaker 6: So, do he and Anthony get along?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: It was their plan to have this sexual encounter with
Speaker 13: all of you?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Okay. Okay.
Speaker 2: You know, I was really drunk, so I couldn't, you know,
Speaker 2: I couldn't work anything up for some reason.
Speaker 7: I get that drunk sometimes. My body just goes numb.
Speaker 7: So you couldn't get hard? Yeah, basically.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 7: So what happens next? She starts trying to get me somewhere.
Speaker 7: It's not working. I don't.
Speaker 1: Know.
Speaker 2: We start messing around, and then Anthony starts coming up,
Speaker 2: rubbing mine in her feet.
Speaker 7: And just, I don't know, like, it made me feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 7: but You know, I was already uncomfortable. So it just
Speaker 7: like added to it. And I just, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I started feeling a deep anger inside of me. Just building, building.
Speaker 7: And like after a while, I literally took a step
Speaker 7: in the bathroom. Light wasn't on.
Speaker 2: And all I can think in my head, as soon
Speaker 2: as I walk in that bathroom, is like literally I
Speaker 2: went to find a knife.
Speaker 7: And then lost it.
Speaker 4: Eddie then left the bathroom and retrieved a small folding
Speaker 4: knife from the living room mantle above the fireplace.
Speaker 16: Then obviously you went back to the bedroom.
Speaker 7: Right. And you said anything to them? No.
Speaker 2: I actually kind of did this pretty sneaky. And that's
Speaker 2: what I feel bad about is I was pretty sadistic
Speaker 2: about it. I took the knife and I literally hit
Speaker 2: it between my ass cheeks. So no one would see
Speaker 2: me walking in.
Speaker 7: And you were completely naked at this point?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And..
Speaker 2: Sure enough, when I sat down, I moved it to
Speaker 2: where I could easily grab it. And I said, well,
Speaker 2: since you guys are doing this right here, you might
Speaker 2: as well change the view, you know. And I got
Speaker 2: him to turn around where Anthony's back was facing me.
Speaker 7: So how were they when you walked in?
Speaker 2: They were facing me on the bed when I was
Speaker 2: sitting like this on the bed when I laid down
Speaker 2: and hit the knife. And then I picked up my
Speaker 2: phone and not my phone. I picked up her phone.
Speaker 2: They said turn a light on. And I turned the
Speaker 2: light on and used that as a distraction.
Speaker 7: The light on the phone? Mm-hmm. And I just... Did
Speaker 7: what I never thought I would do. Ever. It was
Speaker 7: when I came back in the room taking a piss.
Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 7: And I see him... Now giving a... Telling me to
Speaker 7: join in. Knowing that I'm not going to.
Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 7: And I don't know what it was, but just seeing that..
Speaker 2: And thinking about, like, just everything else adding up, I
Speaker 2: felt like nothing mattered.
Speaker 7: And, like, literally, I said, fuck it. And I feel
Speaker 7: bad about it now. I feel remorse now. I genuinely
Speaker 7: miss Anthony because he was an all right friend. I
Speaker 7: don't know what drove me to fucking take his life.
Speaker 7: I couldn't stop. Because I used to go hunting. So
Speaker 7: I know the feeling of taking life.
Speaker 2: I used to, like, whenever we'd get a deer, the
Speaker 2: dog would go fetch it and it wasn't quite dead.
Speaker 7: When you shoot it with a shotgun, brings it back.
Speaker 2: I had to snap the necks of them and that
Speaker 2: actually gave me a rush.
Speaker 7: It was pretty, pretty gnarly. I haven't gone hunting in
Speaker 7: so long.
Speaker 16: Did this give you a rush while you were doing it?
Speaker 7: It was, like, very short-lived.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Because when I started, I paid. I literally... I had
Speaker 7: no idea. I just lost control, and I gained it
Speaker 7: all back, but that's when it was too late.
Speaker 4: At the scene, Haley described what happened just as Eddie
Speaker 4: began his vicious assault on Anthony.
Speaker 9: And he was.
Speaker 3: Telling Aaron, he was telling Eddie to stop, that he
Speaker 3: was hurt, that he's really hurt.
Speaker 6: How many times do you think he stabbed him?
Speaker 9: Oh, God, so much, really. Before, I thought he was, like,
Speaker 9: punching him out first. It was probably.
Speaker 18: 15, 16 times between the back and the chest.
Speaker 3: I could literally hear each of the holes like gasping
Speaker 3: for breath in his lungs.
Speaker 6: How big is the knife?
Speaker 9: Probably about four inches. It was a utility silver knife.
Speaker 9: It was kind of boxy.
Speaker 6: Was it like a four inch long blade?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The folding utility knife was recovered at the crime scene.
Speaker 4: Its blade and handle stained with Anthony's blood.
Speaker 7: Did you say anything to him?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: Well, I think I said some words out of fury,
Speaker 7: but it wasn't any, like, rational words. It was probably
Speaker 7: just anger. What did he say? First thing he said was,
Speaker 7: please stop. We can talk about this. What about Haley?
Speaker 7: What was she doing? She just kept saying, you're scaring me.
Speaker 7: You're scaring me.
Speaker 9: It's just like a plane switch.
Speaker 6: It was the.
Speaker 9: Scariest thing I ever saw. And he pinned me on
Speaker 9: the bed. He said, if you're going to go, we're
Speaker 9: going to go.
Speaker 6: I was like, no, why did you do that? Say
Speaker 6: that again?
Speaker 9: He pinned me on the bed and said, we're going
Speaker 9: to go. And I said, no.
Speaker 4: The 911 call captured Eddie's desperate plea alongside Haley's frantic response.
Speaker 13: So he tried to force you to go?
Speaker 6: Was he holding you at night point?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 9: No, he threw it on the bed.
Speaker 6: He didn't have the knife.
Speaker 9: No, he threw it on the bed. He said he
Speaker 9: can't do this to me. And I said, I got to.
Speaker 9: And I jumped down off the bed, away from his.
Speaker 6: Crotch, and started grabbing Anthony.
Speaker 9: And he started getting dressed.
Speaker 4: He said, you've got to get me out of here.
Speaker 5: You've got to hide me.
Speaker 9: I'm like, I'm not going to hide you. I've got
Speaker 9: to make sure you stay.
Speaker 7: Remember what you said to her?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 7: What did you say? I said something along the lines of,
Speaker 7: you have to help me. I can't go to jail.
Speaker 7: I can't go to jail. Did she agree to help you? No.
Speaker 7: I knew she wasn't going to. Was Haley a part
Speaker 7: of this at all?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: I think she knew it was up, though. Like, at
Speaker 7: what point? Well, she told me I.
Speaker 8: Sometimes have this, these, like, swings, mood swings, not really
Speaker 8: mood swings, but, like, just episodes where I'll, like, I
Speaker 8: just shift, psychologically just shift, and I'm just.
Speaker 7: Like, that's the me that doesn't give a * *
Speaker 7: * *, you know, kind of thing. And she can tell, like,
Speaker 7: when I'm being sadistic.
Speaker 2: She didn't like the way I talk and the things
Speaker 2: that I say as opposed to how I normally talk.
Speaker 2: And she knew, because I gave her, I was hinting
Speaker 2: at it, but I wasn't, like, being direct with it.
Speaker 2: I was kind of like smiling and laughing at her
Speaker 2: in a really up way.
Speaker 7: And like, at that point, my, I just lost all.
Speaker 7: She said you started doing that before you left the
Speaker 7: room to go to the bathroom. Oh, that's because I
Speaker 7: think I was thinking about it at that time. You
Speaker 7: were thinking that you were going to go get a knife.
Speaker 6: That was before you went P though.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And the story you just told.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 7: It's not. She said you had a look.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then when they started having sex when I came back,
Speaker 2: that's when I got the knife and then made another trip.
Speaker 7: I actually don't remember it fully and in all the
Speaker 7: right sequence. So I'm not lying. No, no, no.
Speaker 16: You said you started thinking about it and you got
Speaker 16: that look and that's when she knew. And she said
Speaker 16: that you had a weird look before you ever even
Speaker 16: went to the bathroom. And so I'm just wondering when
Speaker 16: you're in the room before you went to the bathroom,
Speaker 16: if you started thinking about this.
Speaker 7: Or if it was really when you came back from
Speaker 7: the bathroom. I think I started in the room. I
Speaker 7: was thinking about it. I'm like, making all the way back.
Speaker 2: The premeditation started right there in the room.
Speaker 7: Before you even went to the bathroom? Right.
Speaker 4: As the detective digs for any prior history of violence,
Speaker 4: Eddie suddenly drops an unexpected bombshell about Hayley.
Speaker 16: Any physical between you and him ever before this?
Speaker 7: No. No fighting at all?
Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1: Never.
Speaker 16: How was you and Haley's relationship? Because obviously, I can
Speaker 16: only imagine the stress that you put on.
Speaker 7: Well, our relationship was pretty rocky for a while. Like,
Speaker 7: not too rocky. Like, we genuinely love each other.
Speaker 11: I feel like even if whatever happens, you know.
Speaker 7: I honestly feel.
Speaker 17: Like we have to get out of the way you
Speaker 17: do she's pregnant I did not know that.
Speaker 7: What do you want me to tell Haley it's just
Speaker 7: a lot is it possible if I can write down
Speaker 7: a letter or something absolutely I'd rather just do that.
Speaker 4: Once Eddie is left alone, he will soon resume talking
Speaker 4: to himself, spilling raw and unsettling thoughts into the empty room.
Speaker 4: Before stepping away to let him ride, the detective answers
Speaker 4: one final, urgent question about Eddie's legal fate.
Speaker 7: Am I doing life? I can't answer that. I can
Speaker 7: tell you I have been doing this.
Speaker 16: A long time, and with the exception of third-strike.
Speaker 7: Cases, I have not had a life case.
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 7: Really. I literally thought, like, if you kill someone, you
Speaker 7: do life. I thought it was that serious. You would
Speaker 7: think so. That's not how our criminal justice system works.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: After assuring Eddie that Haley will receive his letter, the
Speaker 4: detective leaves him alone to write. As he begins, he
Speaker 4: breaks down, consumed by the lasting consequences of his actions.
Speaker 11: I'm not going to see.
Speaker 7: You for a while. I don't know. I'm supposed to
Speaker 7: be a dad. I'm supposed to be a dad. I'm
Speaker 7: never loving it.
Speaker 18: I really hope I'm out of here in nine months.
Speaker 18: I'm hoping it's the same thing I had to go through.
Speaker 18: Why did I follow my dad's footsteps?
Speaker 4: Finished with his letter, someone returns to collect the pen.
Speaker 4: Once again left with only his thoughts, Eddie considers his
Speaker 4: plans for the future and reflects on a horrifying night
Speaker 4: that will haunt him forever.
Speaker 7: I do the time I get out. I try to
Speaker 7: go back for her.
Speaker 11: Her system's weird now.
Speaker 7: I can actually get out.
Speaker 1: Of this.
Speaker 2: Pretty easily.
Speaker 7: I'm crying. Most of my fluid's out. I gotta stop crying.
Speaker 7: That sound like a.
Speaker 11: Play it smooth all the way through.
Speaker 7: Eventually, finally. Yeah, I killed a man.
Speaker 11: Stabbed him, like, stabbed him.
Speaker 7: Eight times.
Speaker 11: He was raping my girlfriend. He got her drunk so
Speaker 11: he could rape her. To me, too. Thinking I was
Speaker 11: just gonna let it happen. I know what I did
Speaker 11: was wrong. I know I have blood on my hands.
Speaker 7: Like, literally.
Speaker 15: But, at least in my own head, I know what
Speaker 15: I felt like I did what was right. It's just,
Speaker 15: I can't, I can't bring myself to think that was right.
Speaker 15: I could have beat his ass. That's what I should
Speaker 15: have done.
Speaker 7: This wouldn't even have been it.
Speaker 11: I wonder if I could find out more about.
Speaker 7: This law system.
Speaker 11: Try to get out early on good behavior or something.
Speaker 11: So I'll do whatever it takes. I just need to
Speaker 11: get back home to my lady and my child. That's
Speaker 11: all I want.
Speaker 7: I'm coming back home to you, baby. I'm coming back home.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he thought it was good vibes I was sending out,
Speaker 11: but really, he took my vibes.
Speaker 4: I didn't say that. 25-year-old Anthony Brines suffered from a
Speaker 4: total of 20 separate stab wounds, including 14 to the
Speaker 4: chest and abdomen, five to the back, and one to
Speaker 4: the right arm. After investigators executed a search warrant to
Speaker 4: collect photographs, DNA, and his clothing, 19-year-old Edward Eddie Martinez
Speaker 4: was taken to jail. He was formally charged with first-degree
Speaker 4: premeditated murder and, following a trial in April 2023, was
Speaker 4: found guilty and sentenced to 27 years in prison. Although
Speaker 4: he filed an appeal in February 2025, the Court of
Speaker 4: Appeals upheld both his conviction and his sentence. If you'd
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