Vampire Killers: A Brisbane murderer’s proclaimed ‘need to feed’

A council worker, a chance encounter, and a brutal murder that horrified Australia. In 1989, four women prowled Brisbane’s streets in search of a victim.

What followed was a crime so savage it blurred the line between reality and horror fiction.

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47-year-old Edward Clyde Baldock was a council worker, father of five, and grandfather.

Baldock staggered drunkenly along O’Connell Street in Kangaroo Point after a night of drinking and darts at the Caledonian Club.

It was close to midnight when a green Holden Commodore pulled up beside him, carrying four women whose actions that night would earn them infamy as the Brisbane Vampire Killers.

Tracey Wigginton, a towering figure with dark hair and intense eyes, was driven by a volatile mix of rage and a self-proclaimed vampiric ‘need to feed’.

That night, Wigginton and her accomplices, Lisa Ptaschinski, Kim Jervis, and Tracey Waugh, were on the hunt.

Wigginton instructed the driver to stop, and Jervis stepped out, approaching Baldock to offer him a lift.

The group coaxed the inebriated man into the car. Unaware of their sinister intentions, Baldock accepted.

Wigginton directed Ptaschinski to drive to a park. It was a secluded spot along the Brisbane River in West End. The group’s intentions were unspoken but understood.

Wigginton had found her prey.

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