An Australian judge on Monday sentenced Erin Patterson to life in prison for killing three people with toxic mushrooms, following a weekslong trial that gripped the country. Patterson was convicted in July of triple murder for serving a poisonous meal to her estranged husband’s parents, aunt and uncle during a sumptuous beef Wellington lunch at…
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Melbourne, Australia — The estranged husband of a woman convicted of killing three people with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms suspected his wife had been poisoning him more than a year before the fatal meal, an Australian court has heard. A judge on Friday lifted a gag order on pretrial evidence that triple murderer…
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After a ten-week trial, a jury found Erin Patterson guilty of murdering three relatives with poisonous mushrooms.
A jury in Australia on Monday found a woman guilty of murdering her estranged husband’s parents and aunt using poisonous mushroom-laced beef Wellington, its verdict capping weeks of courtroom depositions in a case that has gripped the country and made headlines worldwide. Erin Patterson, the convict, had denied the charges, and her defence team had…
