Tracey Wigginton

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Tracey Wigginton
Born	1965
Alias(es)	The Lesbian Vampire Killer
Conviction(s)	Murder
Penalty	Life

Tracey Wigginton (born 1965) is a murderer who achieved notoriety for killing a man and biting his genitals off in 1989, supposedly in order to drink his blood.

Wiggington was the only one of the four co-accused of sucking and biting off his penis who pleaded guilty to the charge of murder. Therefore, there was no trial and few details were disclosed to the court as to why this incident occurred. Her then girlfriend, Lisa Ptsachinski, and two other women fuelled rumours about Wigginton having vampiristic tendencies, stating that the reason for the murder was to enable the drinking of the man's blood.

On the night of the murder, Wigginton, Ptaschinski and two other women lured a 47-year old man, Edward Baldock, to a park on the banks of the Brisbane River. There, Wigginton stabbed him twenty-seven times, the ferocity of the attack nearly severing his head. Though no reason was given, it is thought that Baldock was murdered after being lured to the riverbank with promises of a sexual nature.

In 1991 she was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court of Queensland.

The case of Wigginton still commands strong media interest and public reaction. In April 2008 it has been reported that Lisa Ptaschinski, one of the other killers, will be released from prison after nearly 20 years. Under the resettlement leave program, Ptaschinski will be given a maximum of 12 hours leave every two months for six months. This news resulted in much slagging and conclusion jumping to on the pages of QLD's Courier Mail comments section. [1]

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• Elsewhere it is argued that Wigginton suffered from Dissociative Personality Disorder. The Article implies that Wigginton was wrongly deemed fit by a Mental Health Tribunal to stand trial, and that this incorrect decision was due to media hysteria fueled by Wigginton's status as a lesbian.

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