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Lesbian Vampire Killer: Tracey Wigginton
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This week on The Femme Fatal, we're traveling to Australia to examine one of the country's most notorious murder cases.
In 1989, Tracey Wigginton became known around the world as "The Lesbian Vampire Killer" after she and three accomplices lured a stranger to the banks of the Brisbane River, where he was brutally murdered in a crime prosecutors said was fueled by her obsession with drinking human blood.
We'll separate fact from sensationalism, explore how the media turned her into a gothic legend, and uncover the real tragedy behind the headlines. Then, in our Horoscopes & Homicides segment, we'll examine how her Leo Sun and Scorpio Moon paint a symbolic portrait of identity, obsession, and the allure of the forbidden.
Welcome to the Femme Fatal, a true crime podcast with an astrology twist. I'm your host, Stacey Dotson. Each week I'll be joined by a guest host because this femme fatale prefers not to work alone. Welcome back to the Femme Fatal. This episode falls during Pride Month, and as someone who celebrates pride every single day, I want to acknowledge something important before we begin. The media dubbed today's subject the lesbian vampire killer, a label that was sensational, exploitative, and impossible to separate from the headlines that followed. Her sexuality became part of the spectacle. But LGBTQIA plus people are exactly that. People. Complex, flawed, extraordinary, ordinary, heroic, and sometimes capable of terrible things. Tonight's story isn't an indictment of a community. It's the story of one woman, one horrific crime. Today we are talking about Tracy Wiggington. And I'm talking with my good friend Kay, who you all know by now. Hi, Kay.
SPEAKER_00Hi, Stacey. How's it going? It's going good. Love the cheap trick t-shirt. Thank you. All right, so I'm going to jump in. Tracy Wiggington, also known as the lesbian vampire killer. Blah, blah, blah. Uh, she was born August 4th, 1965, in Australia. So this whole story takes place in Australia. August 4th, 65, that uh means she's a Leo. Tracy was born to Bill and Rhonda Rhonda was the daughter of a lady named Avril. According to Rhon, Avril, Tracy's grandma, did not approve of her marriage to Bill and made it her mission for that marriage to end. And it was successful. At the age of three, Rhonda and Bill split up, and Tracy was adopted by her grandma Avril and her grandpa George. I don't know why. You're going to see this theme a couple of times in this story, but mom and dad divorce. So Bill and Rhonda divorce. And then Rhonda's like, I can't take care of this child. I'm a single parent, and gives her up for adoption to the grandparents. I'm not sure why. You have single parents all the time doing this, but whatever. Avril and Bill were wealthy and could take care of a child. So I guess it just made sense. Maybe it did. And so mom, she ended up moving away, getting married, and starting a whole new family, and didn't have contact with Tracy or much contact with Tracy until Tracy was 16. Tracy grew up with the grandparents in Rockhampton in Northern Australia.
SPEAKER_01Honestly, I've only heard Avril before for Avril Levine. I've never heard anybody else named Avril.
SPEAKER_00Well, here you go. Here's your second dose of Avril. I saw an early childhood picture of Tracy when she was maybe three, four, five, and she was just your average cute little girl, normal looking. She went to a prestigious school, it sounds like a prep school, and lived the life of a privileged kid. But later stories came out that the grandparents were abusive, both physically and sexually. So many stories that we tell start out this way. It's terrible. It is terrible. And it will impact her later life, as you will see. So the grandparents, Avril and George, they also adopted another girl named Michelle. Grandma was physically abusive towards both Tracy and Michelle. And she would, again, this is Avril, she would beat Michelle in front of Tracy. And she had two male friends that hung around Avril quite a bit. And they would also beat Michelle. Michelle would also be forced to sleep outside with the dogs. Neither of the girls, neither Tracy nor Michelle, were allowed to have any friends. So they had no people coming over to the house. As a result of this horrible upbringing, Michelle ran away from home. And at the time she was 15 and Tracy was eight. So Tracy was left to fend for herself.
SPEAKER_01So I'm sure things did not get well for her then. It got worse.
SPEAKER_00They got worse for poor Tracy. Avril repeatedly beat Tracy. She would beat her with the cord from an iron, like a clothes iron. George, again, was the grandpa, and Avril hated him. So she hated her husband. She loved her little Chihuahua dogs, but she hated her daughter and she hated her husband. According to Rhonda, again, Tracy's mom, Avril hated men, period. Rhonda said Avril was a manipulative and very angry woman. She said, quote, to us, a man was a dirty thing. She was very Victorian in her outlook. She said that attitude especially rubbed off on Tracy later in life. Tracy said George sexually abused her for three years, from like age eight to 11, something like that. And then she also claimed both Avril and George were into the occult. So they were into things like spiritual tarot cards and Ouija boards, stuff like that. George died of cancer in 1979, and then Avril died in 1981. And at this time, Tracy was 16. And prior to her passing, Avril told one of those previously mentioned two men that would hang around the house. Oh, and by the way, Avril and George hated each other so much. Avril lived in a house. George lived in a completely separate house. He had his own house. Were they next to each other or something? They weren't next to each other. They were just two separate houses. That's my understanding. Tracy just, I guess, went between the two of them? I guess so. So George had his lady friends on the side, and Avril had these two male friends that would come over quite a bit. So Avril told them, Before I die, I want you to make sure you keep disciplining Tracy after I'm dead, which made me think that she was going to live with these two men. I don't know for sure. But upon her death, Avril's death, one of the males was beating Tracy and she fought back and fought back so hard that he ended up in the hospital with some major head wounds. So at that time, Tracy decided to go live with mom Ronda. So she's 16. She has moved in with Rhonda and Rhonda's husband and her little sister, Allie. So Tracy's 16 at the time. I believe Allie was eight. I could be wrong on that. Anyway, little sister. Oh, and Tracy inherited 155,000 Australian dollars. This was in 1981 when Avril died. And I looked at the comparison of Australian dollars to US dollars. According to AI, if you had 155,000 Australian dollars in 1981, its purchasing power in 2026 would be worth about 798,000 Australian dollars when adjusted for inflation. And today, 798,000 Australian dollars equals 562,000-ish US dollars. So it was a big chunk of change.
SPEAKER_01Is it worth all the abuse and beatings she took?
SPEAKER_00But it is not. That is horrible. I'd rather be poor and happy. Yes. So again, she's living with Rhonda, her mom, and Allie and Allie's dad. Tracy and Rhonda fought a lot because Rhonda could not accept the fact that Tracy was a lesbian. That was not acceptable to Rhonda. Little sister Allie recounts that when Tracy came to live with them, she taught Allie how to burn ants with a magnifying glass.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's so cruel. I remember kids doing that though, when I just I had a like flashback or something, deja vu, to remember kids doing that when I was young. Back to before that, I was wondering, Rhonda, what do you think she thought about her mom leaving Tracy all that money? I wonder.
SPEAKER_00Well, so she left Rhonda some money too, as well as Rhonda's adoptive sister. She had a sister named Darell. So everybody got some money, but Tracy got more than everybody else. So I don't think anybody was too unhappy, but I really didn't unwrap anything about that. Also, getting back to Allie, the little sister, she also accounts one day they come home and Tracy tells everybody, hey, the old cat died. I buried it in the backyard. And it was an old cat, so no reason to be suspicious. But Allie was suspicious. And Allie and one of her friends went and dug up the dead cat, and it had a hole in its head, which indicated to Allie that that cat did not die of natural causes. So to this day, Allie believes that Tracy killed the cat and buried it in the backyard. So when Tracy was 16, she also had an affair with a friend's husband. And I'm not sure if it was Tracy's friend's husband or the family's friend's husband, but nonetheless, Tracy had an affair with a man, with a married man, got pregnant. She had an abortion and moved out of the house shortly thereafter. And she went to live with a family friend named Kay Weary. So Kay, when interviewed later on, she said that Tracy was a nice kid. She was courteous and a good Catholic. And that was really in contradiction to pretty much all the other reports of Tracy's behavior during those teen years. During those years, people described Tracy as sexually aggressive. She behaved very strangely and was actually expelled from school for sexually molesting other classmates. Just to give you a description of her, Tracy was a large woman. She was six foot one. She weighed over 200 pounds. She was a big gal. And she was kind of intimidating in her presence. In 1982, she was 17 and she cut off all her hair and told others to refer to her as Bobby. She also began dressing in biker clothing. So like black leather type clothing and studs and that stuff. When she started receiving her hair inheritance at age 18, I think she got half of it when she was 18 and another half when she was 21. But when she got that first half, she was not wise with her money. She spent it all on socializing and on a motorcycle. I can see her riding a motorcycle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Avril and George, when raising Rhonda, I forgot to mention Darrell. I did mention. So Darrell is described. So even though you've got Avril and George, these are the grandparents, and they adopted Rhonda and Durell. And then Rhonda had Tracy, but then Tracy was adopted by George and Avril. So essentially Tracy became Durell's sister, even though she could have also been her niece. Anyway, Avril was also an adopted child. So remember the horrible grandmother. She was adopted. She was sexually abused by her uncle, who was her adoptive parent, after Avril's biological parents split up and decided they couldn't raise her either. So remember, I said there's a theme here. Isn't that weird? You become a single parent and you can't. People do it all the time. But for some reason in Australia back then, they couldn't. So as a teen, Avril, the horrible grandma, was raped by a family friend and left on a railroad track to die. So it kind of explains why Avril was a horrible person, but she really passed that on. So anyway, I wanted to mention that. It's worth mentioning. Patterns of abuse. Exactly. Another thing, Avril could not have children. So that's why they adopted Rhonda and Durrell. Another thing about the grandpa George, he was a self-made millionaire. But like I mentioned before, that marriage was a disaster. And I guess they could afford to buy two houses because they hated each other. Rhonda, remember, she's interviewed and says Avril and Dad, they were horrible people. But why would she give her daughter up to adoption? To horrible people. Exactly. I thought that too. It's very strange. Anyway, I'll get back to Tracy. So Tracy is out of school. She didn't really continue with her education. She got a job as a bouncer at a nightclub. And at this nightclub, she met this lady named Sunshine. And Sunshine and Tracy became lovers. They were romantically involved and moved in with one another. They married through a Hare Krishna ceremony and they decided they wanted to have a baby. She had sex with the club owner, that's who got Tracy pregnant, so they could fulfill this dream of being a couple with a child. But Tracy then miscarried. This miscarriage is what some say led to her completely abandoning her Catholic faith and becoming interested in witchcraft. Also the occult and black magic. So that miscarriage is what led to that, but maybe it was the upbringing. Who knows? Tracy at this time started communicating with a white witch in Adelaide, Australia. I looked up a white witch. A white witch is someone who practices benevolent or healing magic using their craft to help protect and bring positive energy to others in the world. So they sound like good people. They're not there to be mean, I don't think. So for some reason, the relationship with Sunshine went south and it ended in 1989. But Tracy moved on quickly. Within two months, she had moved from Brockhampton to Northwest Brisbane. She worked in a factory and lived in an apartment. She became reclusive. She started referring to herself as Fred. She began carrying a black cloth bag that had tarot cards in it, animal bones and candles. And she began using animal blood from butcher shops as well as her own blood. So she cut herself and used the blood to draw symbols on her body as well as on the walls of her apartment. She loved watching horror movies and watched scenes where people maimed and killed, where they were maimed and killed, and she would watch them over and over. So the gorious scenes of movies she would just watch over and over again. Yeah, she was kind of crazy. She was heading that way for sure. She was heading that way, but she met someone who shared some similarities. A lady named Donna. That was her new girlfriend. And again, within two months of breaking up from Sunshine, she and Donna had moved in with each other. The more Tracy became reclusive, the more obsessed she became with all things occult. She started saying to people, including Donna, I'm a vampire and I'm sensitive to sunlight. She started to say she couldn't stand any sort of religious symbols, so crucifixes or anything religious, she would get all eh. And she would tell people, I need to feed on animal blood. She told friends that she was only living off the blood of pigs and goats that she was getting from the local butcher shop.
SPEAKER_01Gross. But you know, that's what a vampire does, I guess.
SPEAKER_00I guess, I guess, I guess. So Donna Tracy lived together, and according to reports, the walls of their apartment were decorated with pictures of graveyards, occult symbols, and a stolen headstone from a graveyard.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I know. Those are expensive. Some family had to replace that.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. So even though she's in this cohabitative relationship with Donna, they live together. Tracy's having a fling on the side, a lady named Lisa Patsenski. Lisa was quite the catch. She suffered from mental health issues and was a heroine. I thought you were gonna make light of that. I thought you were gonna be serious. Like, you know. She'd been hospitalized over 80 times in the last five years for self-harm and drug overdoses. And Lisa was drawn to Tracy's dark side. She had also been involved in the occult and sacrificing goats. Good times. So Lisa said that she would wear a tourniquet, cut herself, and let Tracy suck on her blood. So those two, so Tracy and Lisa then met another lesbian couple, and this was Kim Jervis and Tracy Waugh. They were both 23. I think Tracy is 25 and Lisa's 24. So they're all in their early 20s. One day, Tracy, Tracy Waugh, she saw Tracy Wigginton break across. And she believed at that point that Tracy was a destroyer who had the power to rip the arms off of anyone who would try to stop Tracy feeding on blood. Tracy was very impressionable, I guess. She was a very shy Catholic schoolgirl, and she believed Tracy Wigginton was the devil's bride. I mean, really impressionable, I suppose. Yes, very. She also believed that Tracy Wigginton was telepathic and could make her own body disappear.
SPEAKER_01Considering she was 6'1 and over 200 pounds. That's a big That's a feat. That's a feat, yes.
SPEAKER_00Tracy Wigginton, she had tattoos. One of them was her Leo sign on the back of her hand. Oh really? Yeah, she had her astrological sign tattooed on the back of her hand. We know a few Leos, don't we? We know a lot of them, yes. They're not horrible people, but I want to hear more about the astrology. So we'll get there. Yeah. We'll get there. So Tracy Wigginton considered herself to be a white witch and had to consume blood to maintain her witch aspect. Tracy Waugh, Lisa, and Kim all said Tracy Wigginton had to avoid mirrors and was capable of casting spells on them. Tracy told the group that she could not eat solid food and survive solely on blood. Before the murder, she and her mom had made up. And Tracy still said, at some point I'm gonna make my mom pay because that was a horrible childhood and it was her fault. Didn't I kind of get that? It was her fault. But Rhonda was later interviewed, mom, Rhonda, and she said, Tracy ate food. We went out to dinner like two weeks before this murder, and she ate all the food in front of her. So that's BS. Rhonda mom, she claimed Tracy's problems began when she became part of the Brisbane lesbian community. So mom was really not accepting of her homosexuality, which is kind of sad. Anyway, so I'm gonna get to the murder. On Friday, October 20th, 1989, Tracy Wiginton, Tracy Waugh, Lisa, and Kim Jervis, they went drinking at a lesbian nightclub. They got drunk and then cruised around town searching for a victim. Tracy Wiginton told the group she needed to find someone to feed off of. So these girls are all driving around. And one report I read was the other three thought Tracy was joking, but let's keep going. So while they're driving around drunk, they encounter Eddie Baldock. He's a 47-year-old married man with five kids. He was also a grandfather. And according to 60 Minutes Australia, Tracy claimed she was a hungry vampire trying to find some blood to stay alive. And they saw him stumbling out of a club drunk that night. And it was his favorite club, a place called Caledonian Society and Burns Club.
SPEAKER_01It's a long nightclub name.
SPEAKER_00And they somehow convince him, and I think it was through the offer of sexual favors. They convinced him to get into the car with him. And of note, again, according to 60 Minutes Australia, he had just celebrated his 25th anniversary with his wife two weeks ago or two weeks prior. So that's kind of a happy anniversary to you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And, you know, also, alcohol does not always lead to the best decisions. So yeah.
unknownReally?
SPEAKER_00So they took advantage of his intoxicated state, lured him into the car, and they drove to a park on the Brisbane River near the South Brisbane Sailing Club at West End. And it was at this location that Tracy Wigginton enticed him from the vehicle. So they went down to the riverbanks and they were sitting on the rocks and they started to undress. And she goes back to the car and says, Hey, he's strong. I'm going to need some help. So two of the girls, Lisa and Kim, they get out of the car and go back down to the riverbank with Tracy Wigginton. Tracy Waugh, the shy Catholic schoolgirl, stays in the car and she's like, I don't want to have anything to do with this. They're sitting on down by the riverbank. It's Kim and Lisa and Tracy and Eddie Baldock. Tracy Wigginton goes back to the car, leaves the other two girls there, and gets Kim's knife. So Kim Jervis is a petite person and she's said to carry around a knife for protection. Tracy goes to retrieve her knife out of the car, goes back down to the riverbank, and by this time Baldok is completely naked except for his socks. And Tracy walks up behind him and he says, Hey, what are you doing? And she says, nothing, and then stabs him in the back of the skull, back of the neck. It was pretty gruesome too. She stabbed him over 20 times, cutting his carotid artery, his jugular vein, virtually decapitated him. She then fed on him, literally stuck her face in the open wound on his neck and fed on him, drank his blood. It's horrible. So his body was discovered. And so the three of them left. And actually, while Tracy was feeding on him, I think the other two left and went to the car. But anyway, his body is discovered the next morning by members of the public. Found in one of his shoes was a cash card bearing the name Tracy Wigginton. So she left her debit card behind. That's crazy. But apparently, before the body was discovered, Tracy realized I lost my bank card and went back to the park and looked around for it and couldn't find it. And the reason she couldn't find it was it was stuffed in his shoe.
SPEAKER_01I wonder how it got there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, some speculate that someone sat Tracy up, but who knows? So, of course, after the police find her card, they want to contact her. And they did. They interview her, they take her to the scene, and she actually lied at first and told police that she'd been down by the river the previous day. So her card, she lost it then, but she had nothing to do with the murder. But she remained on their radar because Lisa, remember the woman with the AD hospitalizations. Yes. She was talking to people about the murder. She was telling people this happened. And her friends were like, dude, you got to go to the police. And she did. She turned herself in. She told the police what happened, and all four women were arrested and interrogated. The other three claimed, hey, we're all under Tracy Wigginton's spell. I don't know. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_01I would hightail it in that situation. If they were gonna do that, I'd be like, I'm not going along for this ride. Yeah, I'm not going along with this. Even the Catholic Tracy got arrested.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, even the Catholic Tracy. I think she is an accessory to this crime. But wait, you'll see what happened. The police searched Tracy's car. They found the towel that was used to wipe off Eddie's blood off of Tracy's hands and off the knife. I mean, they had everything they needed, right? On that 60 Minutes Australia episode that I was telling you about, you can see her interrogation room episode. You can see Tracy talking to the police. And once she finally cracked and started telling the truth, they asked him, where did you stab him first? And she said, in the back of the head, pointing at the base of the skull. And they asked, How hard did you stab him? She said, Hard enough to drive the knife up to the hilt, which I had to look up. What exactly does that mean? The most common usage in the phrase to the hilt. This idiom refers to thrusting a sword into something so deep that only the handle, the hilt, I didn't know that's what that was.
SPEAKER_01I did. Ew, when you said it, I was like, oh, uh.
SPEAKER_00So only the hilt remained exposed. She said, I then withdrew the knife and stabbed him in the other side of the neck and continuously stabbed him. She also said he was making a gargling sound. So I knew the blood was coming out of his mouth. I then sat down in front of him and watched him die. And one report I read said she was smoking a cigarette, just watching him die.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I read that she just sat there, watched him die, and smoked a cigarette.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So the case was scheduled to go to trial. There was a lot of testimony. And during the testimony, Tracy told, I'm not sure if she told the court or a jury. It came out that she could not live on solid food. She was drinking blood. Tracy and Lisa would slit wrists so that Wiginton could drink her blood. Based on her obsession for human blood, all four women schemed up to plan to kill an innocent victim in order for Tracy to have her craving of blood satisfied. So this is what she testified to. It was all of this information that made police say, okay, we got you. And it came out during trial, I believe there was a psychiatric evaluation of Tracy, which revealed she had four to five separate personalities. One was an innocent little girl. Number two was adult Tracy. Third was Angry Homicidal Bobby. Fourth, an observer who watched over the other personalities. And the fifth one was Avril, the reincarnation of her grandma. So yeah, she had multiple personalities, which I read is quite, I wouldn't say common, but somewhat common for people that experience severe trauma, severe childhood trauma like sexual abuse.
SPEAKER_01Right. Especially because you have to, I would imagine in the situation, you have to sort of leave yourself to get through it. Exactly. If you're not able to escape or fight back, you just have to leave yourself. And so that makes sense that it would be something that's common with people that experience trauma.
SPEAKER_00And one of the experts said the personalities that she has that would be capable of doing this would have been Bobby. Angry homicidal Bobby or Avril, the reincarnation of her wicked grandmother. Anyway, it didn't actually go to a jury because Tracy ended up pleading guilty. They must have gotten into the trial, but then she decided I'm just going to plead guilty. I don't know what happened, but she was sentenced, get this, to life in prison. And in Australia, life in prison means you go to prison for 20 years or less with a minimum of 13 years being served.
SPEAKER_01So it's not life in prison.
SPEAKER_00I mean, whose life is 20 years? Yeah. I mean. Okay, well, yeah.
SPEAKER_01She was 25 at the time. She was gonna make it to 45, yes.
SPEAKER_00Right, and get out of prison. The other three went to trial. Tracy Walls, the Catholic school girl that stayed in the car, she was found not guilty and set free, which is kind of BS because she was riding around with them. I think she's an accessory to the crime. Why didn't she get out of the car and go tell somebody? Exactly. Kim Jervis, she's the little one with the knife. She was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 18 years, but that was later reduced to 12. So she got out after 12 years. And then Lisa, she also got life, which meant she had to do 20 years, but 13 at a minimum. So now Tracy's in prison, right? She's eligible for parole every few years. And it was during one of these parole hearings where she was denied parole. They spoke to her sister Allie, remember her little sister. Allie, she told the press, she said, I am very fearful for myself and my three children. She said, It's time to tell people. She is a dangerous woman. I've got every right to be scared and scared for my kids. She wished there had been capital punishment when Tracy pleaded guilty in 1991. We would have been able to grieve, and mom would have been able to get on with her life. When she was denied parole, Allie, the little sister, said, I was elated. I felt safe. I don't want her to come out because she is unstable. She says that Wigginton or Tracy's horrific crime and jailing has ongoing repercussions for her and her family. She said, after this happened, Allie was unable to talk to just friends. People abandoned her. People would avoid her walking down the street. I would imagine I would be scared. I would be scared too. So she also said she kept letters and a poem written by Tracy. And she said, I've seen changes in my sister, who is now known as Fred, in prison.
SPEAKER_01So another personality came out.
SPEAKER_00So another personality. And then Allie also said as she became more used to the prison system, she became kingpin of the place and she loved it. Allie said that when her sister next applied for parole from prison, she would write a letter to Queensland Parole Board asking that she not be released. But apparently that didn't work because Tracy was paroled. I believe it was 2012. After being denied parole four times, in 2012, she was released from prison.
SPEAKER_01And so she did almost the whole 20 years, right? 2012 was 22 years after the murder, I believe. Yeah. Okay, so she did over 20.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So she told the parole board when she was released, she told the parole board that Edward Blake Baldock's family had forgiven her, which was not true. They had not forgiven her. So she lied to the parole board, but even though she was released. And then in 2019, it was reported that Tracy was posting pictures of vampires on social media, also posting witches, demons, bones. One post that she made said, do not meddle with the affairs of dragons as you are crunchy and good with ketchup. Another post said, now panic because I'm backfuckers.
SPEAKER_01Yep, I had that in my notes to talk about too, but you made me do it.
SPEAKER_00I'm backfuckers. And then what I can tell is Tracy currently goes by Fred. So, like Ali said a few years ago. By the way, Lisa was released after 17 years. Kim was released after 12 years. My sources for this information were that 60 Minutes Australia episode. There's also this funny podcast out there. It's two lesbians talk murder. It's these two lesbian girls. They're kind of funny. They might be stoned. I can't really tell, but they laugh a lot. And then just multiple news articles. And that is the story of Tracy. And I'm glad she lives in Australia because I'm scared of her.
SPEAKER_01Me too. What's the name of that podcast?
SPEAKER_00It's called Two Lesbians Talk Murder.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I love it. I'm gonna have to look that one up. There's not a lot of stuff made on her, like movies or anything like that. But what a great topic. Yeah, what a great topic. And it's such gothic core, like Anne Rice gone wrong, you know. So yeah. So I was just gonna jump into this. So, like Australian Press was the one that branded her the lesbian vampire killer. And it's a nickname that sold newspapers, obviously. You know, detailed the myth. And since she was an occult enthusiast, there was all kinds of hubbub around stores and things like that. This has appeared in numerous crime documentaries, YouTube retrospectives, which I watched one of those, lots of podcasts, like you said, a couple television specials, including an episode of Deadly Women and the documentary type-style program called Lesbian Vampire Killer, Tracy Wiggington. Couple books. Books uh Ron Hicks, the vampire killer, examines the investigation and trial, and a little bit of the woman behind the headlines. A 2018 account explored what acquaintances described as the many different versions of Tracy, as you know, you're talking about her different personalities. There was a Facebook true crime world that kept the story alive the whole time. One widely shared post called it the bizarre case of Tracy Wigington adding into an entirely new generation to one of Australian's most infamous murders. Anyway, so yeah, so not a lot of stuff that I found except for obviously some good podcasts and some good YouTube videos. Let's go ahead and jump into the astrology. I didn't know she had a Leo tattoo. That's kind of cool. So Tracy Wigington, born August 4th, 1965. And that starts with Sun and Leo. And if there's ever a sign associated with creating mythology around itself, it's Leo, the larger-than-life sign.
SPEAKER_00What do you mean creating mythology around themselves?
SPEAKER_01Well, she claimed to be a vampire. Gotcha. Plus, being, you know, a Leo, she gave two statements that really are pure Leo shadow energy. When asked why she did it, she said, to prove I was a vampire. That was one of the responses. And then she said, it's hard to be famous, isn't it? A legend in my own mind. That was one of her quotes. Yep. Yeah. So yeah. That's a Leo, Leo energy. So anyway, then we have our moon and Scorpio. Leo rules the stage, Scorpio rules the underworld. So Scorpio is associated with death, taboo, blood, transformation, obsession, secrecy, and our fascination with what society fears. So traditional astrology links Scorpio with the eighth house, the house of mortality, darkness, hidden desires, and the psychological depths we'd often rather avoid. And this doesn't mean Scorpio moons are dangerous. Most are not, obviously, but symbolically, if you're writing like a gothic novel about a woman obsessed with vampirism, you might want to give her a Scorpio moon. The moon describes our emotional landscape, and Scorpio feels intensely and often privately, it seeks truth through extremes. It's drawn toward what others find frightening or forbidden. And now her Mars, her action planet, is in Libra. And it seems kind of out of place because Libra is the sign of relationships and balance. And Mars often operates, you know, impulsively rather than balance. It persuades, it recruits, it seeks allies. And this crime wasn't committed in isolation. Three other women were involved. And finally, Venus and Virgo adds a strange layer. Venus tells us what we value and how we express affection. Virgo is meticulous, ritualistic, and detail-oriented. And investigators noted details that still unsettle people today. The victim's clothes folded, neatly nearby, the calmness that followed extraordinary violence, and the cigarette, you know, while he was dying. So Virgo can compartmentalize. It creates order amid chaos. And, you know, again, you know, you're not born a criminal. Obviously, it's a lot of environmental factors. It's just symbolism. And in Tracy Wiggington's chart, the symbolism reads like Gothic literature itself: the lion who wanted to become a legend, the moon drawn to the forbidden, and the warrior who acted through a group, and the perfectionist who maintained composure in the midst of horror. So there you go. Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00That's her chart. I can't believe she's out walking free. It's so bizarre. In America, that would not happen. But we do have a messed up prison system.
SPEAKER_01So we have a for-profit prison system. So yeah, they don't get out. They want to keep them in, you know? That's a whole nother podcast that we could talk about. Not getting into politics here. Yeah. I mean, just the fact that she went on Facebook and was like, I'm back, you know, and like posted pictures of like bones and skulls and stuff like that. I'd be scared. Could you imagine? Like, you find out she's your neighbor. I'd be like, oh, I'm out. Let's move to Perth. Oh my goodness. Well, thanks for doing this and happy pride. Happy Pride Month, everybody. Yes, bye, Kay. Bye, Stacy. The Femme Fatal. Created and hosted by Stacy Dodson. Produced by Mark Williams. Music by Marcia Yingling, Todd Jake, and Greg Loicano.