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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Washtenaw County, Michigan
Alternative Title	Truck driver
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Louie McClain's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Vickie Jenkins. In this variant, a girl is frightened when a truck begins to follow her home and flash its lights. When she arrives home, she runs inside and the truck driver explains to her father that he was trying to protect her from a man hiding in the back seat of her car with a knife.
Informant	McClain, Louie
Collector	Jenkins, Vickie
Date of Original	1970-09-10
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Michigan -- Washtenaw County -- 1970
Subject	Chasing Automobiles 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-AssailantInTheBackseat021

Assailant in the backseat, Washtenaw County, Michigan

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