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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Cook County, Illinois
Alternative Title	Truck driver
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Eva Ellis's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Cheryl Ashworth. In this variant, a woman is frightened when a truck follows her home flashing its headlights and honking its horn. When she pulls into her driveway, the truck driver leaps from the truck and pulls her out of her car in time to save her from the man hiding in her backseat.
Informant	Ellis, Eva
Collector	Ashworth, Cheryl
Date of Original	1969-08
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Illinois -- Cook County -- 1969
Subject	Automobiles Chasing Criminals
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-01
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-AssailantInTheBackseat011

Assailant in the backseat, Cook County, Illinois

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