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It started as a home-cooked meal, ended in multiple deaths and a court sentence for Erin Patterson. Here's how the death cap ...
Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three relatives by serving them a beef Wellington laced with poisonous ...
She was found guilty of serving them a lunch of beef Wellington pastries laced with poisonous mushrooms. Prosecutors failed ...
Death cap mushrooms have a large domed or white cap, depending on age and an off-white stem. They can grow up to 15cm wide ...
Erin Patterson, 50, was convicted on Monday by a jury in the Supreme Court of Australia’s Victoria state of murdering her ...
Symptoms can take six to 24 hours to appear, meaning many people don’t realise they’re in danger until it’s too late.
The fact she had no clear motive was central to her defence team’s arguments. Patterson, who foraged wild mushrooms in her ...
Experts are weighing up whether to continue posting the locations of poisonous mushrooms on public databases like iNaturalist ...