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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Sangamon County, Illinois
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Doris Reed's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by CindyThomas. In this variant, a woman is driving alone when the car behind her begins honking and flashing its lights. Finally, it runs her off the road and the driver pulls her out of her car in order to save her from the man hiding in her backseat.
Informant	Reed, Doris
Collector	Thomas, Cindy
Date of Original	1971-11-24
Contextual Information	The informant claims that this story actually happened in Springfield, Illinois.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Illinois -- Sangamon County -- 1971
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-AssailantInTheBackseat024

Assailant in the backseat, Sangamon County, Illinois

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