
Australian woman found guilty of triple murder by mushrooms
After a ten-week trial, a jury found Erin Patterson guilty of murdering three relatives with poisonous mushrooms.
After a ten-week trial, a jury found Erin Patterson guilty of murdering three relatives with poisonous mushrooms.
A sequestered 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 sister Heather Wilkinson — died in the hospital after…