THE ANATOMY OF A PREDATOR

Detailed Timeline

• Early Life & Trauma: Born Aug 4, 1965. Adopted at age 3 by wealthy grandparents. Claimed physical and sexual abuse.
• 1981 Inheritance: Inherits a significant sum upon her grandparents’ deaths.
• Rejection & Occult Immersion: Briefly lives with birth mother, who was unaccepting of her lesbianism. After a miscarriage, she abandons Catholicism and deepens her immersion in the occult.
• Early Behavioral Indicators: Curled into fetal position in trances, picnicked in cemeteries, drew patterns in blood from self-inflicted cuts, wondered aloud what it would feel like to kill someone.
• Mask of Sanity: Initially described as a “loving girl, gifted artist and devout Catholic,” maintaining an outward appearance that belied her escalating fascination with violence.

The Hunt & The Lure

• Victim Profile: Edward Baldock (47), a council worker and father of four, waiting for a taxi after a night out.
• The Perpetrators: Tracey Wigginton (24) and three accomplices: Lisa Ptaschinski (24), Kim Jervis (23), Tracy Waugh (23).
• The Method: The group cruised in Wigginton’s car “in search of a victim.” Kim Jervis persuaded Baldock into the car with the offer of a lift.

The Attack & Signature Behaviors

• Excessive Violence: Wigginton launched a savage attack, stabbing Baldock 27 times, far beyond what was necessary to kill.
• Extreme Detachment: She later told police she “felt nothing” and calmly “sat down to smoke a cigarette while she watched him die.”
• “Vampiric” Element: Accomplices stated Wigginton drank Baldock’s blood during or after the murder. Wigginton herself spoke of needing to “feed.”
• Discovery & Arrest: The case was easily solved after Wigginton’s bank key card was found neatly tucked into the toe of Baldock’s shoe.

Group Dynamics & The “Vampire” Claim

• Wigginton’s Influence: Her friends felt controlled by her, believing she possessed “supernatural power.” She made them believe her body could disappear, leaving only “two cat’s eyes.
• Shared Belief: They were convinced Wigginton was a vampire and that Baldock was killed “to feed Tracey’s blood-lust.”
• Fear & Coercion: They remained in the car, “too scared to leave,” as Wigginton had threatened them.
• Ambiguity of Blood Consumption: While her friends claimed to “smell blood on her breath,” they did not witness her drinking Baldock’s blood, suggesting the act may have been symbolic, psychological, or a performance.
• Underlying Pathology: Her occult fascination, cruelty, and lack of emotion align with sadistic tendencies and a profound lack of empathy (psychopathy).