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Australia: Mushroom murderer accused of poisoning husband

[ad_1] The Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court in Morwell, Australia where Erin Patterson is on trial (AP image) An Australian woman, named Erin Patterson, who was convicted of killing three of her in-laws by poisoning their food with lethal mushrooms, also tried to kill her husband by poisoning him with a chicken korma curry, according to […]

She served – then faced Australia’s ‘trial of the century’: The making of mushroom murders

[ad_1] It began as an ordinary family lunch, a chance, perhaps, for reconciliation over a carefully prepared meal. But by the end of that day, three people were on a path toward a gruesome death, and a small Australian town would find itself at the center of a global true-crime obsession and “trial of the […]

A jury is deciding the fate of an Australian woman accused of 3 murders by mushroom poisoning

[ad_1] The accused – Erin Patterson, (image credit: AP) MORWELL: A jury in Australia began deliberations Monday in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous mushrooms for lunch. Three of Patterson’s four lunch guests, her parents in law, Don and Gail Patterson, and […]