When Nerds Attack: The Vampire Killers of Brisbane

In the original Bram Stoker novel, vampire Count Dracula uses
mysterious mind-control powers to feed his insatiable need for
blood. He doesn’t always hunt alone—he prefers to use hapless
humans as tools to get what he wants. For such an old story, it
sure does match up with the kind of manipulation we tend to see in
the real-life cases we cover. And in Brisbane, Australia in 1989,
life would imitate art in an almost literal way, as an obsessed
young woman drew three others into her murderous web.

Sources:
Daily Telegraph:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/crime-week-dark-secrets-of-australias-lesbian-vampire-murderer/news-story/83ed596770511fa459c4a7feab36ce1c

Moving Targets: Women, Murder and Representation, 1993, chapter
"Biting the Hand That Breeds: The Trials of Tracey Wigginton" by
Deb Verhoeven
Murderpedia, various articles:
https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/wigginton-tracey.htm
BBC's "Great Crimes and Trials," episode "The Lesbian Vampire
Killers"

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