Haditha
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Sep 15, 2026
speaker_2ADVERTISER
I believe that whoever was in that room and did that was a murderer.
Michael BrownHOST
A new podcast series, Faultline Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps.
speaker_2ADVERTISER
If you've got five players and you offer immunity to four, you better be right about the fifth, because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your killer.
Michael BrownHOST
Listen to Faultline Haditha on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Humberto MendozaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes, sir.
Michael EpsteinHOST
My name is Michael Epstein, and you're listening to Faultline: Haditha, episode five, Women and Children.
ParkerGUEST
So the, uh, for the record, this is Mr. Michael Epstein from New York.
speaker_3MODERATOR
I'm sorry.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Unfortunately, the answer is you can't.
Michael EpsteinHOST
I was never able to find a home for that film.
Michael EpsteinHOST
But with the release of Faultline: Haditha, we're going to do something special.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Every episode of this podcast is going to have a companion set of videos available on YouTube.
Chris CravensGUEST
... was a great man.
Chris CravensGUEST
Um, he was with 325 Lima Company that had lost over a platoon's worth, um, at the same time in Haditha, which was roughly an hour and a half from where we were.
Chris CravensGUEST
So it's just a really high op tempo time.
Chris CravensGUEST
Um, but you know, yeah, I came back, I tried to court her again.
Jane CoastonGUEST
That's a war crime, folks.
Jane CoastonGUEST
In Haditha, in November 2005, Marines killed 24 civilians, including children.
Jane CoastonGUEST
Of eight charged, one was convicted of dereliction of duty.
Jane CoastonGUEST
In Mahmudiyah, in March 2006, soldiers raped and murdered a 14-year-old girl and killed her family.
Matt HohGUEST
I almost had to go to Ramadi one time.
Matt HohGUEST
I remember thinking, "Jesus, Jesus, please, I don't want to go [laughs] to Ramadi." You know? Uh, but, like, if we were in Haditha or Hit or something-
Jim WebbHOST
Mm
Matt HohGUEST
MmYou know, the, the Iraqi people stayed away from us.
Michael EpsteinHOST
At the time I recorded this interview, Frank was 26 years old, married, and had three young daughters.
Michael EpsteinHOST
He had also just been charged with 18 counts of murder in what the media was calling the Haditha Massacre.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Frank told me that he was not guilty, that he killed no one that day.
Michael EpsteinHOST
But he was especially adamant about the deaths in house two.
Frank WuterichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's extremely frustrating.
Frank WuterichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It really is.
Michael EpsteinHOST
I'm Michael Epstein, and this is Faultline Haditha.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Episode 4, The Butcher of Haditha.
Byron RodgersGUEST
And the difference between textbook and reality, the application of the thing.
AJ BuckleyHOST
Now, your first combat was the invasion of Haditha? How do you say
Byron RodgersGUEST
that? Yeah, Haditha.
AJ BuckleyHOST
Haditha, that's
Byron RodgersGUEST
right.
AJ BuckleyHOST
And in the morning, it was pitch black, and the power in the city goes out.
Byron RodgersGUEST
Um, so yeah, we, I mean, it's for,
Byron RodgersGUEST
it's like 3 30 AM.
Mike MaloneyGUEST
I had a lot of trouble with this particular incident.
Michael EpsteinHOST
I'm Michael Epstein, and you're listening to Faultline Haditha.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Episode 3, Blood Spatter.
Michael EpsteinHOST
This episode contains a lot of information.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Because if you're going to ultimately decide who's responsible for these murders, you need to know exactly what happened in that bedroom.
Michael EpsteinHOST
But there's another reason, one that goes right to the heart of why I'm making this podcast.
Michael EpsteinHOST
The Haditha massacre is thought of, when it's thought of at all, as a failed prosecution.
Michael EpsteinHOST
There wasn't enough evidence, or the evidence that was collected showed that all the Marines, except Frank Witterich, were innocent.
Michael EpsteinHOST
They are part of a crime that shocked the world.
Michael EpsteinHOST
The murder of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Everyone wants answers.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
And I'm just really confused about what happened that day.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Okay.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Did you see him when he opened the door? No.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Whether by design or incompetence, the truth about the Haditha massacre, one of the most important criminal cases in the last half century, has been covered up by the United States Marine Corps.
Michael EpsteinHOST
This podcast is the story of that coverup and how it happened.
Michael EpsteinHOST
But first, I want to tell you the story of how they came to be, and the one Marine without whom they would not exist.
Michael EpsteinHOST
I'm Michael Epstein, and this is Fault Line Haditha.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Episode 2, The Photographs.
Michael EpsteinHOST
We have something in crime scene reconstruction we call the archaeologist paradox.
Michael EpsteinHOST
to archaeology.
Michael EpsteinHOST
That's former NCIS Special Agent Mike Maloney.
Michael EpsteinHOST
He and his partner, Special Agent Tom Brady, were in charge of the forensic reconstruction in Haditha.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Basically, what that means is Mike and Tom had to take all the evidence collected during the investigation and figure out the sequence of events at each location where civilians were killed, what happened, and in what order.
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