From BBC News

• Erin Patterson is found guilty of murdering three of her relatives, and attempting to murder another, at a lunch in 2023

• The 50-year-old cooked and served six individual beef Wellingtons at her home in Leongatha, regional Victoria - they were later found to contain death cap mushrooms

• Patterson's in-laws Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson, died within days - this graphic shows who else attended the meal

• The prosecution argued Patterson knowingly put the toxic mushrooms in the home-cooked lunch, lied to police and disposed of evidence - they also acknowledged she had no particular motive

• Patterson's defence was that she accidentally included the poisonous fungi and lied because she panicked -

This story is absolutely wild 🤯

I’m disappointed. I thought it was going to be a woman who’d been convicted for going on a spree of killing every shiitake, chanterelle, oyster and morel that she encountered.

The defence's main reasoning was that she had absolutely no motive at all. She didn't get ill but said that was because she says she made herself vomit due to being bulimic.

They were dried mushrooms she had in a jar and she couldn't remember if she bought them or wild picked them.

No motive, but they were her "estranged" husband's parents, yeah right... and conveniently threw up after ingestion.

this title had me thinking someone got charged for murdering mushrooms like i did with eating and cooking them fairly regularly

2 hours ago, Dobbo said:

No motive, but they were her "estranged" husband's parents, yeah right... and conveniently threw up after ingestion.

I didn’t follow the trial but from what I knew before she had poisoned her husband numerous times before and he’d been in a coma and things like that. They dropped all those investigations to focus on this one. She wanted him to be there and tried emotional blackmail like “This might be my last meal” hinting she had a terminal disease or something but for whatever reason he didn’t show up and I guess she went through with it anyway. Motive still unclear but probably some sort of revenge.

This story has been insane to follow, I do hope Netflix pick it up at some point for their next true crime documentary.

How did the one guy survive?

5 hours ago, Chez Wombat said:

This story has been insane to follow, I do hope Netflix pick it up at some point for their next true crime documentary.

There is one on Netflix pretty similar that happened in India called curry and cyanide although that was more multiple instances than just one big murder