Prosecutors allege she intended to kill two elderly couples – including her children’s grandparents – and deliberately picked death cap mushrooms for murder.

An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with poisonous mushrooms has told a court ...

How can you identify a death cap mushroom? Woodland Trust says that death cap mushrooms are easily confused with common field varieties, which is why poisonings often happen. These relatively ...

Doctors said the symptoms matched death cap mushroom poisoning, which forensic tests later confirmed. The prosecution alleges that Ms Patterson, 50, deliberately poisoned the lunch guests after ...

Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of intentionally putting death cap mushrooms — which are among the most poisonous in the world — in a beef Wellington dish she served at a July 2023 lunch at her home in ...

An example is the death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides), which is found in Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. In Tasmania, Cortinarius eartoxicus causes ...

Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of intentionally putting death cap mushrooms — which are among the most poisonous in the world — in a beef Wellington dish she served at a July 2023 lunch at her ...