Vampire or victim
An ominous chill hung over Brisbane in the early hours of October 21, 1989, when self-proclaimed vampire Tracey Wigginton trawled the empty streets under cover of darkness, hunting for human blood. Shunning daylight and mirrors, the former grammar school student’s nocturnal existence had ignited an obsessive interest in the “dark side” which saw her stalking graveyards by moonlight and living on a bizarre liquid diet of pig and cow blood. Now, however, she had hatched a much more grisly plot.
Cruising around the deserted city with Prince’s Batdance blasting on her car radio, Tracey, 24, her lover, Lisa Ptaschinski, also 24, and their girlfriends Tracey Waugh and Kim Jervis, 23, spied father-of-five, Edward Baldock, trying to hail a cab after a boozy night out. Tracey’s vampire fantasy descended into reality.
The gruesome details of what really happened on that October night were so shocking that they would remain buried in police files for nearly two decades, only becoming public in 2012 after Australia’s infamous “lesbian vampire killer” was controversially released from prison on parole.
Tracey’s re-emergence from a Queensland prison farm, after serving almost 23 years of
