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An Australian woman who cooked a mushroom lunch that led to the suspected poisoning deaths of three of her guests has been charged with murder. Erin Patterson, 49, who has maintained her innocence since the incident, was arrested on Thursday morning before police spent the day searching her home east…
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Ian Wilkinson, who was one of four people who became severely ill after eating poisonous mushrooms during a family lunch, has become the sole survivor after being discharged from hospital. Ian, 68, along with his wife Heather, 66, her sister and brother-in-law, Gail and Don Patterson, both 70, were rushed…
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The son of a woman who died after eating poisonous mushrooms cooked by a family member has revealed the haunting final text he received from her in the hospital before she died. Erin Patterson, 49, had hosted a lunch for the parents and relatives of her estranged husband Simon on…
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The woman who added mushrooms believed to be poisonous to a recipe that ended up killing three people has admitted that she lied to the police. Erin Patterson, from Victoria in Australia, originally told the police that on July 29 she had served a home-cooked beef wellington meal for her…
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An Australian woman has given her version of events to police after three of her family members died following a meal she cooked for them. Erin Patterson of Victoria, Australia, had invited her former in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, both 70 to her house for lunch on July 29 along…
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