She served them death: Australian woman found guilty of mushroom murders
Erin Patterson was convicted on Monday of murdering her in-laws with death cap mushrooms, ending a trial that had gripped Australia
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Australia’s ‘mushroom murderer’ found guilty of killing in-laws in shocking poison plot
Australian woman Erin Patterson was found guilty on Monday of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous mushrooms for lunch.
Patterson, who sat in the dock between two prison officers, showed no emotion but blinked rapidly as the verdicts were read.
Three of Patterson’s four lunch guests – her parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson – died in hospital after the meal in 2023 at her home in Leongatha, at which she served individual beef Wellington pastries containing death cap mushrooms.
She was also found guilty of attempting to murder Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband, who survived the meal.
