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James Hood, the Madison educator who broke the color barrier at the University of Alabama in 1963, tells a dramatic story about his uncle’s hanging from a noose and burning at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. But it never happened. Link to Article | Archive

First black man admitted to the University of Alabama told a story many times over the years about his uncle being hanged and burned by the KKK in the 1950s. He eventually recanted and said only a relative had been beaten.

Posted onApril 26, 1998 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Police Officer DiBartolo, the 18-year veteran Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy, faked a robbery, shot his wife, and then himself with her gun. At trial he claimed that two black men had mugged him and his wife and shot his wife in the head and then himself in his abdomen. He was convicted in 1997 of killing his wife and sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Posted onFebruary 18, 1998 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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White student at Guilford College in North Carolina claimed she was knocked out and had “N*gger lover” written on her chest. Police said she had no evidence it took place and she refused a lie detector test and eventually apologized while insisting it actually happened.

Posted onFebruary 1, 1998 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Lesbian who claimed she was beaten and tied up twice by a home intruder actually paid a friend $350 to administer the beating. Her story was used to gain support for a hate crime bill.

Posted onDecember 26, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Black judge claimed for 30 years that his brother had been shot by white men in a racist attack during their youth. Investigators found he had stolen the real story from someone else of the same name.

Posted onNovember 7, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Two black students at Duke University hung a black baby doll from a tree with a noose.

Posted onNovember 1, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Two Hispanic Teens Lied About Being Attacked By Confederate Flag-Toting Racists And Were Doused With Gasoline To Cover Up That They Tourched Their Own Car

Posted onSeptember 11, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

African American Woman Damaged Her Home to Defraud Insurance Company Claimed Faked Race-Based Attack

Posted onAugust 30, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Lesbian graduate student at Eastern New Mexico University distributed anti-gay fliers attributed to a fictitious group named Fist of God. She later admitted to staging the hoax.

Posted onJuly 21, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Drugging, beating and drowning of half-Iraqi boy in Sebnitz, Germany was claimed by his parents to be the result of 50 neo-Nazi skinheads. Investigators found the parents paid witnesses to make false statements.

Posted onJune 13, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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A group of nine black and Chinese patrons at a Denny’s restaurant in Syracuse, New York claimed they were beaten by white patrons while security stood by. Investigators found they were drunk, disorderly, asked to leave and started the fight themselves.

Posted onApril 11, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Orthodox Jew planted a pipe bomb at the Jacksonville Jewish Center hours before the Prime Minister of Israel was scheduled to speak there.

Posted onFebruary 13, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Black family in Coatesville, Pennsylvania had rocks with racial slurs written on them thrown through their windows. Police later found it was their son who did it.

Posted onFebruary 5, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Black student from Chicago at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota sent racist hate mail under the UPS logo from 1996 – 1997 in an effort to extort $500,000 from UPS.

Posted onJanuary 1, 1997 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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A Latino Teenager Falsely Claimed Four Skinheads Beat Him Up

Posted onNovember 22, 1996 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

Couple in Jonesboro, Georgia claimed the arson of their house was due to a hate crime. Police later found it was insurance fraud and that they had been committing fraud for many years.

Posted onSeptember 21, 1996 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Red swastikas were painted on eight barracks rooms occupied by African-American Special Operations soldiers at Fort Bragg were found to be placed there by an African-American soldier

Posted onJuly 18, 1996 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Fliers for KKK Rally at the Beach was a Hoax

Posted onApril 22, 1996 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

Fire in a hostel for asylum seekers in Luebeck, Germany that killed 10 was assumed to be the work of white racists. Instead it was set by a Lebanese immigrant who lived there.

Posted onJanuary 18, 1996 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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White man told police three black men broke into him home, assaulted everyone, and burned house down, killing two people. He lied and plead guilty.

Posted onDecember 9, 1995 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Iranian immigrant in Fargo, North Dakota claimed assailants carved a swastika in her stomach and burned down her family’s restaurant. Police found she staged the attack as an insurance fraud.

Posted onOctober 23, 1995 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Employee of the Jewish Hillel Community Day School in North Miami Beach, Florida paid vandals to paint swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on the school. Police found it was part of a kickback scheme for the repairs.

Posted onAugust 17, 1995 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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African-American Student at the University of Iowa Reported to Police that his Mercedes-Benz had been Spray Painted with Racist Graffiti. Police Found It was Insurance Fraud to Get a New Paint Job.

Posted onJuly 15, 1995 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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An East Northport woman who claimed a black man slashed her face on SUNY’s Old Westbury campus yesterday admitted she made up the whole story.

Posted onApril 20, 1995 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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White man in the Trenton, New Jersey area told authorities that he saw a Black man abducting a White girl whose mouth had been bound with duct tape. Five hours later it was determined that the story was a hoax.

Posted onJanuary 12, 1995 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Orlando Magic player Anthony Avent, a black man, filed a false police report of a slashing, claiming that three white men had attacked him.

Posted onJanuary 11, 1995 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Black man in Williamsport, Pennsylvania sent racist letters to the wardens of three prisons and signed them “KKK”.

Posted onOctober 26, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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White woman in South Carolina claimed a black man carjacked her car with her two sons inside and drove it into a lake, killing them. Police later found she rolled the car into a lake herself while her sons were inside.

Posted onOctober 25, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Woman admits 1994 Reedsport hate crime fire was insurance scam

Posted onAugust 31, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Three gay tenants in Tacoma, Washington reported their apartment was severely vandalized, had swastikas and death threats spray painted on the walls, and had a brick thrown through the window with “get out fags” written on it. Police found it was insurance fraud.

Posted onJuly 31, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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German documentarian showed KKK members in white robes burning a cross and making anti-Semitic remarks. German Authorities sentenced him to four years in prison when they found he had paid his friends to dress up.

Posted onJune 1, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Two white women got into a fight and went to the police and said concocted a story that a black male intruder had viciously attacked her and her 71-year-old mother-in-law in their suburban New Jersey home

Posted onMarch 24, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Jewish mayoral candidate for New Orleans, Louisiana was behind anti-Semitic and anti-black flyers sent out. Sympathy for him as a result of the flyers netted his campaign $200,000.

Posted onFebruary 27, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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White woman made up story of ATM Robbery and told the police that the gunman (with a tall Afro haircut) and his three companions were black.

Posted onFebruary 21, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Teens who spray painted anti-Semitic graffiti on a house in West Rogers Park, Illinois were trying to cover up a previous burglary rather than committing a hate crime.

Posted onJanuary 28, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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17-year-old Berlin girl claimed neo-Nazis carved a swastika into her face, but it was a hoax

Posted onJanuary 20, 1994 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

15-year old girl from Athens Greece claimed right-wing extremists carved a swastika on her forehead. Medical examiner concluded given the way it was carved, it couldn’t have been done against her will.

Posted onNovember 13, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

A group of students at Oberlin College publicly and falsely identified an innocent freshman as “Rapist of the Month”.

Posted onOctober 10, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Black main who claimed he was set on fire by two white stranded motorists eventually died. Police said they found no such assailants and he possibly set himself on fire.

Posted onSeptember 21, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Albany NY Mayor’s son, who is african-american, linked to false hate crime report. Claimed tires slashed and racist note left.

Posted onJune 4, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

Black student at Encinal Elementary School in San Jose, California claimed ten white and Hispanic boys beat him because of his race. He later admitted to inflicting the beating on himself.

Posted onMay 11, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Yonkers police sergeant convicted of concocting story blaming fictitious black man for assault of another officer

Posted onApril 24, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Jewish couple in Cooper City, Florida staged a burglary on their own home and spray painted swastikas in an attempt to commit insurance fraud.

Posted onApril 1, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Feminist student at the University of Hawaii falsely accused her religious studies professor of raping her after she got a bad grade on one of her papers.

Posted onFebruary 25, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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African American Woman, Who In Total Reported More Than 20 Hate Crimes, Staged a Cross Burning On Her Own Lawn And Swastika Painted On Her House

Posted onFebruary 19, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

Woman in Spring Hill, Kansas wrote racist graffiti on her house and was charged with filing a false police report.

Posted onFebruary 11, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Harvard Law professor said several female students had told him they were considering filing charges against him for sexual harassment based on his classroom content, rather than anything he had actually done.

Posted onFebruary 1, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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Black student at Williams College posted notes containing racial slurs on the door of the black student union building.

Posted onJanuary 25, 1993 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

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A 14-year-old girl who claimed a swastika was cut into her face in November 1992 later admitted having fabricated the story.

Posted onNovember 29, 1992 by HoaxHateCrimes.com

Information available so far: The made up allegation was that on 29 November 1992, neo-Nazi youths cut a swastika on the cheek of 14-year-old Dominique Krotisch. Link to article | Archive Post about hoax about main articles story Journal