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When police arrived at the scene, they located
Wigginton's bank card in one of Baldock's shoes among his neatly folded pile of clothes. The four women were then quickly arrested. A few days after the murder, Wigginton told police that she ‘felt nothing’ while stabbing Baldock and that she sat down to
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Wigginton, who allegedly killed and drank the blood of animals, had been planning for some time to escalate to murdering a man so that she could "feed" on him. On the night of the murder, Wigginton (then aged 24), Lisa
Ptaschinski (aged 24), Kim Jervis (aged 23) and Tracy Waugh (aged 23) had been out
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In 1981, Wigginton's grandparents died and left 15 year-old
Wigginton $ 75,000 ($ 310,640 in 2022 dollars). Wigginton briefly moved back in with her mother, who was not accepting of her lesbianism, and then moved in with a family friend who described her as "a loving girl, gifted artist and devout
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The case still commands strong media interest and public reaction. In April 2008, it was reported that
Wigginton was being released. However, it was actually Ptaschinski who was being released under the resettlement leave program, given a maximum of 12 hours leave every two months for six months.
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Wigginton was the only one of the four co-accused who pleaded guilty to the charge of murder. Therefore, there was no trial for her and few details were disclosed to the court as to why this incident occurred by
Wigginton; Ptaschinski, Jervis, and Waugh stated that Wigginton had claimed to have
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Wigginton was revived when it was revealed that she was posting images on Facebook of vampires, witches, and a pile of skull and bones. Following this, the officers who investigated the case said that Wigginton's parole should be revoked.
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who achieved notoriety for killing Edward
Baldock in 1989, supposedly to drink his blood. This was described as "one of the most brutal and bizarre crimes Australia has ever seen." Wigginton was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991, and was paroled in 2012.
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tendencies. They said that the reason for the murder was to enable the drinking of the man's blood. During the trial, Wigginton said to the media "‘It's hard to be famous, isn't it? A legend in my own mind’."
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