A new species of spider from the Ecuadorian Amazon: Taczanowskia waska. Credit: David Diaz-Guevarra Researchers exploring Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest thought they had spotted a small mushroom clinging to the underside of a leaf during a night survey. A closer look revealed something far stranger. It was a spider that had disguised itself so convincingly as […]
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 the […]
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 century”.Erin […]
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 Gail’s […]
