This week's Classic Crime was by listener request - the case of the Vampire Lesbian Killer in 1989. This case, still fresh in peoples minds, was brought back to the forefront of the media this week when one of the women involved in the murder was approved for 12 hours leave (from her prison service) every two months. This sparked debate as to whether these women are, or ever will be, fit to return to public life.
The atrocious murder involved one young woman, Tracey Wigginton, believing to be centuries old vampire who required blood to survive. She had convinced three other girls that this was fact. On the 20 October 1989 these four women committed the murder that imprisoned three of them. They drove around the city looking for a victim and came across Edward Baldock.
Baldock, drunk after a night out with his colleagues, was lured into their car, driven to a park by the Brisbane River, South Brisbane and brutally slain by Wigginton, the other three women stayed in the car. It is alleged that Wigginton drank some of her victims blood as the body was less a significant amount which didn't add up to the amount that had been spilled at the site.
Curiously, when police investigated the murder the next morning, Wigginton's credit card was found tucked in the murdered mans' shoe. It was this piece of evidence that eventually led to her arrest.
