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Assailant in the backseat, Vigo County, Indiana

Description: This is Vicki Semayas typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Barbara Betchley. In this variant, a truck driver follows a woman home after following her around all day during her shopping trip. The woman is so frightened that she runs into her house and then back into her car, where she is strangled by an assailant who was hiding in the back seat of her car. The man following her simply wanted to warn her about the assailant.
Origin: 1970-03-15
Source: http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/folklore/id/1970
Collection: Indiana State University Folklore Archives
Subjects: Criminals
Chasing
Strangling
Folklore

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