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October 28, 2007 (news.com.au / Peter Hansen) -- Convicted murderer Tracey Wigginton, who calls herself a vampire, began new Supreme Court action last week, protesting against her high-security classification. She wants to do her life sentence in the softer conditions of a prison farm.

Her application to the court last week sought declarations that recent decisions to classify her as a high-security prisoner and to house her back at the higher-security Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre were unlawful.

Now 42, she has been in custody since October 1989 when she and three other women were involved in the murder of Edward Baldock, 47, at West End in Brisbane.

The court heard that they lured him into a car at night outside the Caledonian Club at Kangaroo Point. They drove to a park on the banks of the Brisbane River and promised him sex.

Wigginton stabbed Baldock 27 times and drank his blood.

They were quickly caught when detectives found a credit card belonging to one of the women in one of his shoes.

Wigginton was transferred back to the women's prison in June last year after allegedly assaulting another prisoner and a prison guard.

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Brisbane's "Vampire Killer" to be freed from jail

April 14, 2008 (The Courier-Mail / Robyn Ironside) -- One of two women jailed for life over Brisbane's shocking vampire murder is to be released back into the community.

The Queensland Parole Board has approved the gradual release of Lisa Ptaschinski, 41, who was found guilty of the 1989 murder of Brisbane City Council worker Edward Baldock.

In 1991 she was sentenced to life imprisonment - joining former lesbian lover Tracey Wigginton - who pleaded guilty to the murder.

The court heard Ptaschinski and two other women lured the drunken Baldock into their car at Kangaroo Point for the purpose of fulfilling Wigginton's "need to feed".

They then drove to Orleigh Park at West End where Wigginton stabbed him 27 times and drank his blood.

Rowers found Baldock's naked body near the South Brisbane Rowing Club the next day and police discovered a cash card bearing Wigginton's name in one of his shoes.

Of the two other women involved, Kim Jervis was sentenced to 18 years jail for manslaughter - later reduced to 12 years - and Tracey Waugh was acquitted after her defence barrister argued she had played no active role in the murder and had tried to stop Jervis from taking part.

Since 1998, Ptaschinski has been held at the Numinbah Prison Farm on the Gold Coast and under the resettlement leave program, she will be allowed a maximum of 12 hours leave every two months for six months.

A Queensland Corrective Services spokesman said reports Ptaschinski's co-accused, self-proclaimed vampire Tracey Wigginton was being released were "110 per cent untrue"

 



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