Between 2008 and 2011, a series of rapes in the suburbs around Seattle and Denver were perpetrated by Marc Patrick O'Leary, an Army veteran who had previously been stationed near Tacoma, Washington. Police did not believe the first victim, an 18-year-old woman known by her middle name, Marie, who reported being raped at her home in Lynnwood, Washington. Detectives' "bullying" and "hounding" of her, according to a later report, led Marie to recant her statement and be charged with making a false report of rape. O'Leary went on to rape five more women in a similar manner, one in Washington and four in Colorado.