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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Marion County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is an anonymous informant's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Bob Robinson. In this variant, a woman is driving home late at night when she notices a semi-truck following her and flashing its lights. When she gets home, she starts to run inside when the truck driver calls that he is just trying to save her from the man hiding with a knife in her backseat.
Informant	Anonymous
Collector	Robinson, Bob
Date of Original	1972-12-08
Contextual Information	The informant claims that this story appeared in the newspapers in the Indianapolis, Indiana, area around 1967.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Marion County -- 1972
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-AssailantInTheBackseat029

Assailant in the backseat, Marion County, Indiana

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