June 9, 2002 (The Nationwide News Pty Limited) - "Vampire Killer" Tracey Wigginton -- the woman behind one of Australia's most bizarre murders -- has earned a university degree in jail. Wigginton has received a Bachelor of Arts from Deakin University, double-majoring in anthropology and philosophy.

She celebrated her success on Friday with visiting relatives at the Brisbane Women's Prison where she is serving a life sentence for the 1989 murder of Edward Baldock. Prison authorities said Wigginton had begun her study in 1994 through Victorian-based Deakin University.

"We support such education programs as part of the rehabilitation process," a spokesman said. "She did it part-time through a correspondence course paid from her own (prison) earnings or with the help of her family. She applied herself in a very diligent way."

It is understood the award included two high distinctions, 10 distinctions, nine credits and a pass. Baldock's murder and the trial of Wigginton, then 24, attracted worldwide attention.

The Supreme Court trial in Brisbane heard Wigginton was a self-proclaimed vampire who said she could not eat solid food and had a growing hunger for human blood. Baldock was the randomly chosen victim. She and three other women -- one her lesbian lover -- enticed Baldock, a 47-year-old father of five and a grandfather, into their car at Kangaroo Point after he had spent the evening at the Caledonian Club, saying they would drive him home to West End. But they drove to Orleigh Park on the Hill End reach of the Brisbane River. There, Wigginton began a frenzied stabbing attack that almost severed Baldock's head before slaking her thirst on the blood of the Brisbane City Council worker. She pleaded guilty and was followed to jail by two of the three other women.

"I'd like to slice the top off someone's head and say: 'Think, let me see you think,' " Wigginton told a psychiatrist during a court-ordered assessment. Wigginton also avoided sunlight and mirrors and had previously drunk the blood of her lesbian lover. That woman had opened her veins on four occasions to keep in Wigginton's "good books".

In 1997 Wigginton was named one of Queensland's most violent prisoners during debate over legislation aimed at keeping her and up to 30 others fitting that description behind bars for life. In a 1996 interview from inside prison Wigginton said she expected never to get out because any attempt would create a "media circus." She also boasted that long-term prisoners like herself were at the top of the prison pecking order.

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