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A Shakespearean, small-town murder: why Australia became so obsessed with the Erin Patterson mushroom case
The “mushroom murder trial”, as it has popularly become known, has gripped Australia over the past 11 weeks. More than that, it’s prompted worldwide headlines, multiple daily podcasts, and even YouTube videos of self-proclaimed “body language experts” assessing defendant Erin Patterson’s every move.
Erin Patterson convicted for murder of husband’s family with deadly mushrooms
Australian woman Erin Patterson was convicted Monday of murdering her estranged husband’s family by poisoning them with death cap mushrooms. Patterson, 50, faces up to life in prison for the deaths of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson following a meal at her home in Leongatha in July 2023.
The 50-year-old's in-laws died in 2023 after eating beef Wellingtons prepared by Patterson - they were later found to contain ...
Images of killer cook Erin Patterson’s crockery, released by the court, have thrown a key issue left unanswered at trial into ...
An inmate has accused Erin Patterson of tampering with her food and making her sick as the mushroom cook was behind bars ...
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