Patterson, 50, is accused of serving her ex-husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, his aunt Heather Wilkinson and uncle Ian Wilkinson, a meal laced with Death Cap mushrooms.

Jury members have retired to decide the fate of an Australian woman accused of murdering three members of her husband's family with a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington lunch.

7 key issues jury must decide in mushroom murder trial Erin Patterson’s fate now rests in the hands of 12 members of the public. These are the key issues those jurors have been asked to decide.

MORWELL, Australia - The jury in the trial of an Australian woman who allegedly murdered three elderly relatives of her estranged husband using poisonous mushrooms retired to consider its verdict ...

Ian Wilkinson, a poison survivor, departs from the Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court in Morwell, Australia on June 4, 2025, where the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, accused of killing her ...

The 50-year-old is charged with murdering her estranged husband's parents and aunt in July 2023 by spiking their beef-and-pastry meal with death cap mushrooms -- the world's deadliest fungi.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A jury was deliberating for a second day Tuesday in the triple murder trial of an Australian woman accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by ...

But Patterson’s lawyers said the poisoning was a terrible accident caused by a pantry mix-up of store-bought and wild mushrooms; she didn’t know they were death caps.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A jury was deliberating for a second day Tuesday in the triple murder trial of an Australian woman accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by ...