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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Knox County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Marilyn Earley's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Anne Reel. In this variant, a woman goes out to put her groceries in the back seat of her car when she notices a man is hiding there. She goes back in to get the store owner, but when they return to the car, the man is gone.
Informant	Earley, Marilyn
Collector	Reel, Anne
Date of Original	1973-04-26
Contextual Information	In most variants of this legend, the woman does not realize there is a man in her backseat before she begins driving.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Knox County -- 1973
Subject	Automobiles Criminals Grocery stores
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-AssailantInTheBackseat031

Assailant in the backseat, Knox County, Indiana

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