Tracey Wigginton
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Tracey Wigginton (born 1965) is a murderer who achieved notoriety for killing a man in Brisbane, Queensland in 1989, supposedly in order to drink his blood.
Wiggington was the only one of the four co-accused 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.
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- This article argues that Wigginton suffered from Multiple Personality Disease, that the claims of vampirism were invented by her partner and the two other women and that she was denied a fair trial and vilified by the media because she was a lesbian.
