Intense jealousy leads to the murder of a 12-year-old girl; a killer is addicted to vampiric blood lust and satanic rituals; a teenager who hates Mondays opens fire on her school classmates and teachers.
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00:00In the darkest moments, the promise of excitement can turn women into killers.
00:16A charismatic young woman uses the occult for murder.
00:22I just can't understand how three other girls would follow this woman with these horrific
00:27ideas.
00:29A teen turns jealousy into a murderous game, and the path mentality takes hold.
00:36We see people in groups doing things that they would never do individually.
00:42A 16-year-old girl picks up a gun and shoots into a schoolyard, just because she doesn't
00:49like Mondays.
00:51What I see is a person who felt like, I don't have anyone that loves me, I don't have anyone
00:56that even cares about me.
00:59These are deadly women, all seduced by the dark thrill of a kill.
01:17Madison County, Indiana, January 11, 1992.
01:27Don Foley is about to make a terrible discovery along the roadside.
01:33A farmer and war veteran, he's used to seeing death and suffering.
01:39I've seen dead animals, I was in the service, I've seen people burnt and stuff.
01:46I'd seen it before, but nothing like that.
01:51I thought it was a mannequin to start with, or one of them rubber dolls you hear about.
02:00She was burnt real bad from here up.
02:06The young girl's body had been sexually assaulted, tortured, burned.
02:14The victim, 12-year-old Shonda Scharrer.
02:24Even those used to brutal slings, like former FBI profiler Candace DeLong, were shocked
02:30by this crime.
02:33For all the years I've been involved in working with people that committed murder, as a psychiatric
02:38nurse to my work as an FBI agent, this is one of the most disturbing cases I've ever studied.
02:47For Candace DeLong, it's a tragic case of peer pressure gone terribly wrong,
02:53turning teenagers into terrifying killers.
02:59Shonda Scharrer's murderer is not one, but four school-age girls, on the ultimate thrill kill.
03:08Everybody was shocked when we learned the age of the girls involved.
03:12I think that, I know that's what surprised me more than anything else.
03:19Indiana State Police Detective Steve Henry headed up the investigation.
03:25For some reason, the chemistry was right that night between these four girls for this to occur.
03:33Alone, young girls rarely commit homicides.
03:39But group pressures can override an individual's instinct for caution.
03:44We see people in groups doing things that they would never do individually.
03:51Some of these violent attacks by a group against one person, they take on like a pack mentality.
03:58One person is always the leader, and the others are followers.
04:04It started three months before, outside a school dance.
04:09Amanda Heverin is with her new friend, Shonda Scharrer.
04:14I met her in junior high. I was in eighth grade, she was in seventh.
04:21We became very, very close. We became really good friends.
04:28But Amanda's ex-girlfriend is brooding.
04:33Sixteen-year-old Melinda Loveless.
04:39Jealousy is probably the most common motivator of murder.
04:47Period.
04:48They tried to beat Shana up at a dance.
04:52I got between them and told Shana to run.
04:58The relationships that they get in at that age may seem trivial.
05:03But that's their life's breath. That's their world.
05:09If somebody interferes with those relationships, things can get pretty rough.
05:15Melinda begins writing letters to Amanda.
05:21Frightening letters wishing Shonda dead.
05:25Well, I would say I didn't think she was capable of murder.
05:28I thought maybe she'd just, you know, try to scare or beat her up or something.
05:34That's the Melinda that I knew. I didn't know her as being a violent person.
05:42She convinces some friends.
05:46Tony Lawrence, Hope Ripley, and Lori Tackett
05:52to take a joyride to Shonda's house.
05:56None of the three had ever met Shonda.
06:00It's easier to do something when you've got a group of people.
06:02You can share the responsibility, share the guilt, share the blame.
06:08Melinda has assembled her pack.
06:13The only question now, how far will they go?
06:21There is no doubt in my mind that Melinda intended to cause the death of Shonda.
06:35Melinda brings a knife, ostensibly to scare Shonda.
06:42The pack mentality can take on a life of its own.
06:46The leader determines what's going to happen,
06:48and the other members of the group, sometimes they'll go along with it to impress the leader,
06:52and sometimes they go along with it because they're afraid of going against the leader.
07:01The plan was to lure Shonda into the car
07:06that her good friend Amanda was waiting for her.
07:10There were not mean-looking, dirty child molesters.
07:14There were two children that looked like her
07:17that were not threatening, and they said,
07:19just walk 25 feet and talk to her.
07:22And that's what she did.
07:33And they had her.
07:43You stole my girlfriend!
07:48I think when the knife was first put to her throat,
07:51some of the followers just thought this was kind of a game,
07:55that they really had no idea it was going to end where it did.
08:01It would be the last day Shonda's mom, Jackie, ever saw her daughter.
08:07Shonda had never been anywhere that we didn't know where she was or who she was with.
08:10Shonda wasn't allowed to go in anybody's house that I didn't call the parents,
08:13that I didn't go there.
08:15I was very, very protected.
08:23Shonda is driven to the countryside, then assaulted.
08:33Led by Melinda, 17-year-old Lori Tackett joins in.
08:38Lori took the most active role in helping Melinda.
08:41The other two girls, I think, were just kind of going along,
08:44something to do on a Saturday night.
08:47There was really no indication that they knew what was going to happen.
08:54After the attack, Shonda is tossed in the trunk.
09:04Twelve-year-old Shonda Scharr has been lured into a car,
09:08assaulted and tied up.
09:13Her teenage captors appear to be on a thrill kill.
09:21It really isn't that difficult to kill someone quickly.
09:25If you have a knife and they are disabled, they can't run away from you.
09:31And yet, we didn't see that in this crime.
09:33And yet, we didn't see that in this crime.
09:35We saw very long, drawn-out, horrible torture.
09:41Shonda suffers unimaginable abuse.
09:45Hope Rippey sprays window cleaner as the assault ends.
09:50One could say Hope really didn't want to deal her a fatal blow,
09:56but felt compelled to do something to make it look like she was into the murder.
10:03Fifteen-year-old Toni Lawrence is the only one to resist.
10:09I can only imagine that she was terrified.
10:12If they did that to her, they can do that to me.
10:19Oftentimes, they become paralyzed with fear.
10:22And yet, she was able to say,
10:25I'm not going to be a part of this, I'm not going to look, I'm not going to do anything.
10:30But she must have been terrified.
10:34Shonda's Ordeal
10:44Shonda's ordeal has continued for eight hours.
10:51At dawn, her tormentors finally put an end to it.
10:55Well, I think these girls used gasoline because, partly, they didn't know what they were doing.
11:03I think if they'd found some big, heavy boulders, they would have dropped them on her body.
11:07It was just whatever was convenient, whatever popped into their mind.
11:10The way it was told to me, they drove away and turned around and came back past the body,
11:17thinking that she would be burned completely up, and there would be no trace of her,
11:21and she was still there.
11:23And they killed her.
11:25I've gone through the same thing.
11:28I've seen it.
11:30I've seen it.
11:32I've seen it.
11:34I've seen it.
11:36I've seen it.
11:37and there would be no trace of her, and she was still there.
11:40So Melinda set her on fire again.
11:49And then we went to McDonald's and had breakfast.
11:54But Shonda wasn't dead.
11:57They identified soot in her airways,
12:00which means at some point she had actually inhaled or was breathing in
12:04the fumes, the fire, the burning contents that were all around her.
12:10This indicates to all forensic pathologists that she was conscious.
12:17They didn't know how to tell me how she had died,
12:20and I saw it on television, that she had been burned alive.
12:24I didn't know that.
12:35Later that day, Melinda confesses to ex-girlfriend Amanda Hevrin.
12:42Amanda.
12:44She told me everything that had happened.
12:50I thought it was a joke,
12:52because I just can't fathom that four girls would do this to another human being.
12:58I can't fathom that four girls would do this to another human being.
13:02This is, you know, this is stuff you wouldn't even do to an animal, you know.
13:08In Melinda's mind, it might have been simple.
13:12Remove the competition, and then you'll be number one again.
13:19She also might have been telling her partly as,
13:23Look what I can do.
13:25And I'll do it to you, if you don't come back to me.
13:29We don't know.
13:41That evening, Toni Lawrence, the only one of the four who refused to participate,
13:47turns herself in and tells police everything.
13:53Before the night is out, Shonda's killers are behind bars.
14:01Shonda's death shatters her family.
14:04She weighed 77 pounds.
14:06And 91, the year before, that was the year before she died.
14:11There would be another victim, Shonda's father.
14:15Steve could not have been a prouder father.
14:18Shonda was his life.
14:21From the day that she died, he did everything he could to kill himself
14:26besides putting a gun to his head.
14:29And finally, he drank himself to death, and he died at 53.
14:37What could motivate such a crime?
14:42Jealousy?
14:45Pack behavior?
14:48Or something else?
14:50Made possible by other people not even on trial.
14:56It's alleged most of the girls came from troubled or abusive homes.
15:02I think every horrible thing that happened to each one of those girls,
15:05everything they had held in all their life, they took it out on my child.
15:09I think that's what they were doing.
15:11I think they just all exploded that night.
15:15Court testimony revealed Melinda had a violent father
15:19who abused her mother, her sisters, and a cousin for years.
15:28I think the outrageous home life that Melinda was subjected to
15:33at the hands of her father and the mother who didn't protect her from that
15:37played a tremendous role in why she eventually grew up to be a murderer.
15:45None of these girls were born murderers.
15:49They weren't born to murder children.
15:51They weren't born to be in prison.
15:57This is what we do as parents.
15:59We mold our children into what they are.
16:02All four were tried as adults and pled guilty.
16:07Tony Lawrence, the least involved, was sentenced to 20 years
16:12but was released in 2000.
16:17Accomplice Hope Rippey was sentenced to 60 years
16:21but released early in 2006.
16:26Still serving their 60-year sentences in Indiana State Women's Prison,
16:31Lori Tackett and Melinda Loveless,
16:35the teenager whose violent past and catastrophic jealousy
16:40created a thrill killer.
16:44Melinda Loveless is the closest thing you will ever look at
16:48and know what the devil is.
16:50Her eyes are empty.
16:52There's nothing inside of her.
17:04The suburbs have harbored their share of deadly women.
17:10But until 1979, one of its institutions had been largely untouched
17:16by violence or death.
17:23On Monday, January 29, that would change forever.
17:28This is one of the most unthinkable, horrendous crimes
17:31that could ever occur in California, in the nation, and in the world.
17:40The city is San Diego, California.
17:44School teacher Daryl Barnes heads off for another day.
17:50I was a teacher for 38 years.
17:53I enjoyed the community and I enjoyed the kids that were there.
17:56It was an extremely pleasant experience until the incident happened.
18:02Across the road from Daryl's school, Grover Cleveland Elementary,
18:0716-year-old Brenda Spencer is home alone.
18:13Her single parent father has left for work.
18:17But Brenda isn't preparing for class.
18:21She's looking for a thrill.
18:25This Monday would spawn a hit song
18:29and become the most infamous school day in modern history.
18:36It's difficult to think of anything more evil
18:39than shooting into a crowd of school children.
18:44It's a very violent crime.
18:47It's a very violent crime.
18:51Than shooting into a crowd of school children.
18:56For District Attorney Richard Sachs,
18:59that Monday starts a case he's followed for 30 years.
19:03This was the country's, if not the world's,
19:06first school shooting type of case before January 1979.
19:11This type of behavior, this type of crime was unheard of.
19:15It's a Monday that will scar Cam Miller.
19:19He's more than just nine years old.
19:23Every day I wake up, I see the scar on my chest
19:26and it's a constant daily reminder that I'm fortunate to be alive.
19:33Every parent wants nothing more than to protect their child.
19:41In this particular case, these parents thought they were doing that
19:44by sending their kids to school.
19:49As I walked up to the school, apparently she saw me.
19:55I was wearing a blue vest and I was a good target
19:59because she liked blue so she shot at her favorite colors.
20:07The bullet actually went in my back and out my chest.
20:11I was very fortunate that it did just go straight through my body.
20:16These .22 caliber rounds are going to be traveling
20:19probably at excess of 1,600 to 2,000 feet per second.
20:23So when something is going that quickly through your body,
20:27you won't perceive pain, but you will perceive a shock
20:30from the transfer of the kinetic energy.
20:36The principal and I were sitting in the office talking
20:39and we heard this pop, pop, pop.
20:42It sounded like firecrackers to us and it got our attention.
20:47I saw children either fall or grab a part of their body and start crying.
20:53Some screaming, some just looked around in shock.
20:57We didn't know where this was coming from.
21:02Undetected, Brenda had the school under siege.
21:06As news of the killings gets out, the country goes into collective shock.
21:12They're asking how can a killer open fire at defenseless children
21:17in a suburban schoolyard?
21:21One thing we can say with absolute certainty is
21:24having a gun accessible to a minor greatly contributed to the case
21:29and it was absolutely wrong and illegal.
21:32Brenda's .22 caliber rifle is a Christmas present from her father.
21:38There is no question in my mind that Brenda's father
21:42bears a tremendous amount of responsibility for what happened.
21:47Buying a rifle and supplying her with bullets,
21:52he has much to be ashamed of.
21:57Brenda had been in the hospital for a year
22:00Brenda had been known in the neighborhood as a troublemaker.
22:06Colleen Davidson was just five when she first tried to befriend her.
22:12One of my first memories is going to her house
22:15and I had my barbie doll and she ripped its head off
22:19and I was really upset because she said she was going to give me some clothes for it
22:22and I went home crying.
22:25Doll mutilation is something that we have seen
22:29in children who later become, and teenagers who later become
22:33killers or stalkers of others.
22:37It can show a rage against the owner of the doll
22:40or that's how she's abused at home by someone.
22:43She's recreating it.
22:47Brenda would later accuse her father of sexual abuse.
22:50What I see is a person who felt like
22:53I don't have anyone that loves me.
22:55I don't have anyone that even cares about me.
22:57I can die tomorrow and everybody will be happier.
23:00And that was her state of mind, you see, so she felt
23:03if I'm miserable, I'm going to spread the misery to other people.
23:07Why not?
23:10Before that fateful January day,
23:14no one really knew what was going to happen.
23:18No one really knew what was going on in Brenda Spencer's mind.
23:23But soon she will tell the world.
23:28I realized that I had to get these kids out of here
23:31and that was going to be a big deal
23:34because I had to get the ones that were wounded in the office
23:37and there were still kids coming down the street.
23:40Teacher Daryl Barnes is joined by Principal Burton Ragg
23:44who bravely jumps into the line of fire.
23:46There was three more pops
23:51which were shots by Brenda Spencer.
23:57And he twirled
24:00and dropped down immediately right there at the front of the school.
24:05I ran over to him.
24:09He had a big red spot right on his chest right here.
24:12A gunshot wound to the aorta is a very lethal event.
24:17The aorta is the major blood vessel that leaves the heart.
24:20It transfers oxygenated blood to all the organs in the body.
24:24It is putting out blood at a very rapid rate.
24:27Very, very difficult to survive even with immediate medical care.
24:33Principal Ragg dies at the scene.
24:37Daryl risks his life to save the wounded.
24:43Of course, I didn't stop her from shooting eight kids
24:47but at least I got them out of that area
24:50in case she wanted to continue to shoot at them.
24:56There is more courage that day.
24:59School custodian Michael Sukar
25:03School custodian Michael Sukar also braves the sniper.
25:07He was taking a blanket to put over Burton Ray.
25:12Three shots rang out and hit him.
25:18He'd been in the service where this is the kind of thing he did.
25:22Never been scratched a day in his life in war.
25:26Michael, too, will die of his wounds.
25:33I think the fact that Brenda shot on and on and on
25:37kind of speaks for itself in that she was enjoying it
25:41and it was doing something for her.
25:44Absolute power and control over the lives of others.
25:49By 9 a.m., police have arrived.
25:52I hadn't had a chance to talk to this police officer
25:55except to say, well, there's some bodies out in front
25:58and so he was crawling out to see if he could
26:01assist them and then she shot again.
26:10Officer Robert Robb is shot in the neck.
26:16She was a very, very good shot.
26:19She used very good accuracy in order to hit this many.
26:24The death toll only stops when police moved a garbage truck
26:28to block Brenda's firing line.
26:37Before Brenda makes her next move,
26:41a journalist calls, asking why.
26:54When Brenda said to the reporter,
26:57I did it because I don't like Mondays,
27:00when I first read that, it occurred to me
27:03that she certainly was not mentally ill when she did it.
27:08It was too flippant and sarcastic an answer
27:11for someone who's seriously mentally ill.
27:14I worked with the seriously mentally ill for 10 years.
27:17That's not the kind of answer you get when you ask them a question.
27:20And I think it shows Brenda's contempt for society.
27:27After a six-hour standoff, Brenda finally surrenders.
27:37She shot approximately 36 times.
27:40She wounded eight school children,
27:43one police officer, killed the principal of the school,
27:46and a school custodian.
27:53Nine injured, two dead.
27:5636 rounds fired, 11 hits.
28:00In April 1980,
28:03Brenda Spencer is imprisoned for 25 years to life.
28:08She has applied for parole four times.
28:11Each time, it's been denied.
28:14This is the type of case where, in our view,
28:17she should never be released from prison.
28:20She should spend the rest of her entire life in prison
28:23for what she's done.
28:25I don't have any animosities or vengeance
28:28towards Brenda Spencer.
28:30I forgave her a long time ago,
28:33but I do believe that it's important
28:36that she pays the consequences of her judgment.
28:40Many of us don't like Mondays,
28:43but Brenda Spencer had so much more not to like.
28:48Not the least of it,
28:50an abusive father who bought her a gun
28:55that she tragically used for a sick and twisted thrill.
29:03A link between excitement and murder
29:06A link between excitement and murder
29:11The idea of a thrill kill
29:14shocks every society wherever it happens.
29:20One morning, the Australian city of Brisbane
29:23awoke to news of a most horrific murder.
29:27He was covered in blood,
29:30absolutely covered in blood.
29:32In October 1989,
29:35Detective Pat Glancy gets a case he'll never forget.
29:42I've seen some shockers, believe me, I have.
29:45This murder scene would right up in my top bunnies.
29:50At the crime scene, a naked father of five lay dead.
29:56He appeared to be stabbed.
29:59He appeared to be stabbed,
30:01with his throat savagely slashed.
30:05When we rolled the body over,
30:07I truly thought that the head was going to detach from the body.
30:11It just almost went its own way,
30:13and it was most uncomfortable.
30:19Who could commit such a brutal crime?
30:23That first day, no one could have guessed.
30:26I don't think we even considered the idea of it being a female.
30:29We just assumed it was a...
30:31that it had been done by men, or a number of men.
30:35Detective Glancy and his fellow investigators
30:37would be drawn into a world of feminine darkness.
30:43A world of the occult.
30:46Of gothic ritual.
30:49Of a belief in vampires.
30:51It's hard to believe that the allegations or the report is true.
30:55As it turned out, everything was true.
30:58State prosecutor, Adrian Gundelac,
31:01found himself in the middle of a unique murder case,
31:06where the motive seemed to be a lust for blood.
31:10Tracy Wiginton, who I would suggest was the main instigator,
31:14was telling these girls,
31:16and leading them along the path
31:18to believe that she was a vampire,
31:21and that she needed human blood to keep going.
31:29The black arts had long fascinated 24-year-old Tracy Wiginton.
31:37Tracy fantasizes about the occult.
31:41Holds seances.
31:43Reads tarot cards.
31:46She is physically strong,
31:48and chooses lesbian girlfriends with similar interests.
31:53It's all a far cry from her devout Catholic upbringing.
31:59Teenagers frequently develop interest in the very opposite
32:02of what they think their family would want them to be.
32:06If a child is forced to go to church,
32:09and they're going to act out and be defiant,
32:12an interest in the occult would be exactly the thing they'd go for.
32:19Tracy's upbringing left her something else.
32:23A small fortune,
32:26which she is lavishing on friends and her passion for the occult.
32:31The money in her bank account
32:33is an inheritance from her grandparents,
32:36who raised Tracy after her mother abandoned her at age four.
32:43Tracy's friends are drawn in by a wealthy, forceful young woman,
32:47promising excitement.
32:51Dark passions are becoming more than fantasy.
32:57Tracy's friends will say they've seen her,
33:00Tracy's friends will say they've seen her drink blood.
33:07And I said, had you seen her drink the blood?
33:10She said, I have given her blood.
33:13She said, I used my blade that I use for leather work,
33:17and I slipped my veins for her,
33:20and she sucked the blood from my veins.
33:23This is so unusual.
33:26Drinking blood would certainly, from a physiologic standpoint,
33:30cause iron overload in an individual.
33:33At a minimum, it would cause some gastric upset,
33:37and is so socially unacceptable.
33:45Vampirism is a clinical term.
33:48Being aroused by the idea of blood and drinking blood,
33:52that actually is a clinical perversion.
33:56Whatever Tracy's motivation,
33:58she's beginning to contemplate a terrible crime.
34:06During meetings with her friends,
34:08Tracy Wigington tells them she needs fresh blood.
34:14Amongst her close circle, Tracy Waugh,
34:18her lover Lisa Paczynski, and Kim Jarvis.
34:22It is only Lisa who has given her blood.
34:30But this time, she wants blood from someone else.
34:35As yet unknown.
34:38A murder victim.
34:41So they planned to get a man.
34:44That man that they got was poor Mr. Boldock, I'm afraid.
34:5247-year-old Edward Boldock is the unluckiest man in Brisbane
34:57on the night of October 21, 1989.
35:03He was chosen at random,
35:05the first vulnerable male the girls could find.
35:11Paradoxically, Edward thinks things are going his way.
35:17He's just won at darts, at a local bar,
35:20and spent his winnings on a few drinks.
35:23He was very inebriated when he left.
35:26He had a blood alcohol content of 0.3%.
35:29So he's an easy victim to lure into the car with four young girls.
35:35Edward thinks his lucky streak is continuing.
35:40Four young girls offering a lift,
35:43and from Tracy, perhaps something more.
35:46There was obviously talk that she was prepared to have sex with him,
35:50and she'd give him a good time.
35:52I think she also indicated that the other girls were available
35:55if he felt like them.
36:00The girls take their victim to a secluded riverbank.
36:04It's well after midnight.
36:08There we were.
36:10Edward appears willing to leave the car
36:13and follow Tracy to a boat shed closer to the water.
36:19The three waited in the car while Williamton took him down the back.
36:26And the interviewing officer said,
36:28what was your thoughts at that time?
36:31And she said, I was going to kill him.
36:34I recall asking to kill him.
36:39But Tracy doesn't strike immediately.
36:45She appears to lull her victim into a false sense of promise and security.
36:55Then Tracy excuses herself for a moment.
37:00Hey.
37:02Edward has the presence of mind to take some precaution
37:05with his newfound friend.
37:08He hides his wallet.
37:10He had that sixth sense, I suppose, he thought he might be robbed.
37:13So he slipped his wallet under the corrugated door
37:16of the nearby sailing shed.
37:19Edward finds a loose credit card,
37:21and assuming it's his, hides that too.
37:26It would be one of Edward's last actions.
37:35In Brisbane, Australia, a cult enthusiast, Tracy Wigington,
37:40is asking her friends to help her commit murder.
37:45She has her victim.
37:47All she needs now are weapons and assistance.
37:55But only one, her lover Lisa Paczynski, agrees to the thrill kill.
38:04Edward Baldock has been lured to his death.
38:09But Lisa freezes.
38:11Tracy does not.
38:14She said she stabbed in as hard as she could
38:17and that the knife went right to the hilt.
38:21She said she got the knife and tried to get into the bones.
38:25That was her words.
38:27Tried to get into the bones.
38:31Tracy's first blow almost severs Edward's spinal cord.
38:36It tells me there was a great deal of force,
38:39one which would have cut through all of this bone
38:42and nearly cut that spinal cord in half.
38:46Now the murder takes on a new vicious frenzy.
38:51She just brutally stabbed him 17 or 18 times,
38:57according to the pathologist.
39:00And the hole in his back was as large as bread and butter plate.
39:06It was huge.
39:10Another deep slash to her victim's throat.
39:13Then, the reason Tracy gave for wanting to kill an innocent stranger.
39:21Blood.
39:23Kim Jarvis was asked, did she drink the blood?
39:26Did Wigington drink the blood?
39:28She said when she arrived back, she looked like she'd had a three-course meal.
39:44Something happened that night no one believed possible.
39:50Not the police, not the victim.
39:53Perhaps not even the girls who had gone along for the ride.
40:02Only Tracy knew.
40:04Only Tracy had the desire and the will to kill.
40:08Tracy knew.
40:09Only Tracy had the desire and the will to carry it out.
40:15It was a very deprived and very cruel murder.
40:21And it's one of the worst.
40:26But the killer would be caught because of a thoughtless mistake.
40:31The credit card Edward hid for safety that night had been dropped by Tracy.
40:39I later checked those shoes after they'd been photographed
40:42and I found the bank card was in the name of T.A. Wigington.
40:49Detective Glancy's discovery helped lock away the woman local newspapers dubbed
40:54Brisbane's lesbian vampire killer.
40:57Brisbane's lesbian vampire killer.
41:03Tracy Wigington was judged to be sane and convicted of first-degree murder.
41:10She serves a life sentence.
41:13I don't think she should ever be released. I really don't.
41:16It was just so vicious and done by a woman, a very, very cold, calculating woman.
41:24Lover Lisa Paczynski was also found guilty,
41:28though she never physically assaulted the victim.
41:32Kim Jarvis, who was judged to play a lesser role, was jailed for manslaughter.
41:39Tracy Waugh, who stayed in the car, was found not guilty.
41:44I just can't understand how three other girls would follow this woman with these horrific ideas.
41:54Since the police interviews in which she confessed,
41:57Tracy Wigington has refused to speak again of the crime.
42:03We can only speculate why she wanted to be a vampire,
42:07in search of the ultimate thrill.
42:12The stalking, the choosing the victim, the luring him,
42:16the way that they dressed, and the multiple stab wounds,
42:20and then, of course, the drinking of the blood.
42:22That was all part of what her fantasy was,
42:26and something that she felt needed to be there for this crime to be complete.
42:36For these deadly women, an ordinary life was not enough.
42:43They crossed the line, falling into darkness,
42:47looking for something more thrilling.
42:52For Melinda Loveless, it was the thrill of revenge.
42:58For Brenda Spencer, the thrill of control.
43:04For Tracy Wigington, the thrill of the occult.
43:11Most of us know that the need for excitement must be controlled.
43:17That left unchecked, it can become sick and depraved.
43:24Not these deadly women.