The following is a list of the alleged hate crimes Rachel Dolezal reported, compiled from police reports in Couer D'Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington. Investigators were never able to verify her claims.
• September 21, 2009: Dolezal, then working as a staffer at the Human Rights Education Institute in Couer d'Alene, reports finding a noose on her front porch at the Spokane home she shares with a live-in boyfriend. She identifies herself as African American, is very concerned about her welfare, and "has been harassed by white supremicists in the past." No arrests were made in the case.
• Nov 19, 2009: Dolezal files a report on behalf of the Human Rights Education Institute in Couer d'Alene, where she worked. She claims she discovered a swastika sticker on the institute's door. Security cameras had malfunctioned at the time the swastika was placed, according to the police report.
• Sept. 3, 2010: Dolezal files a malicious injury report about a July incident in Couer d'Alene, when she allegedly found a palm-size dent on the front passenger panel.
• April 11, 2010: Dolezal files a report for harassing phone calls in Couer d'Alene. Dolezal claims to have received a vulgar phone call from a female student at North Idaho College. The prosecuting attorney's office declined to prosecute the case because they did not find sufficient evidence of phone harassment.
• June 15, 2010: Dolezal files a harassment report of a noose hanging in her carport behind her rented Coeur d'Alene home. In August of the same year, a detective files a supplemental report stating that in an effort to find potential witnesses who might have seen someone hang the rope, he contact's the home's owner, Randy Bell.
"He told me that he was 90 percent sure it was rope he hung there approximately (one year before the report)," the officer writes in the report. *"He said he hung a deer up there and he believes the rope is from that time."
Bell told police that he told Dolezal he was the one who had hung the rope in the rafters.
"I asked him when he gave Rachel the information that he was the one who may have hung the rope up there, and he said sometime around the time she filed the report," the police report states. "Randy was sympathetic to Rachel's concerns about the rope but he felt he may be the one who hung the rope up there."
The detective called Dolezal on Aug. 25, 2010 and left her a message to call him about the incident. He did not receive a return call from Dolezal. The case was closed Aug. 26, 2010.
• Feb. 25, 2015: Dolezal, then president of the Spokane NAACP, reports to Spokane police of receiving an envelope in the NAACP post office box containing an 18-page letter filled with harassing statements and images aimed at her. The envelope is not postmarked and Dolezal is the only person known to have a key to the P.O. box.
Dolezal reports receiving another letter from the same sender in May and postmarked Oakland, California. After an extensive investigation involving the U.S. Postal Service, the Spokane Police, the F.B.I. and a DNA matching effort, the case was suspended June 10 due to lack of evidence.
• Feb. 26, 2015: Dolezal reports her son was called a racial slur and was chased into a Spokane store. After an investigation, witnesses said no racial slur was made and that he walked casually into the store to buy candy. The case was closed March 23.
• April 13: Two people mistakenly walked into Dolezal's unlocked house because they were lost. Dolezal claims the two people attempted a home invasion, and she felt harassed. But her son, home at the time, told police he wasn't scared.
"They seemed like normal, middle-class white people," he told police, noting the couple took the time to try and catch the family cat, which had escaped into a neighbor's yard. Police were unable to identify the two people and determine what their intent was. The case was suspended April 27.
• Additional reporting by Christine Pelisek.
