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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Kathy Smith's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Mike Molnar. In this variant, a woman is alarmed when a truck driver follows her home. Although the driver is simply trying to save her from the man hiding in her back seat, the woman dies of a heart attack upon thinking that the truck driver is trying to harm her.
Informant	Smith, Kathy
Collector	Molnar, Mike
Date of Original	1969-08-06
Contextual Information	In most variants of this urban legend, the woman actually survives the ordeal.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1969
Subject	Chasing Criminals Automobiles
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-AssailantInTheBackseat012

Assailant in the backseat, Vigo County, Indiana

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