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Australian mom responsible of murdering three individuals with toxic mushrooms

By Editorial Board Published July 7, 2025 4 Min Read
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Australian mom responsible of murdering three individuals with toxic mushrooms

An Australian mom has been discovered responsible of murdering her estranged husband’s dad and mom and an aunt by serving them a beef wellington laced with toxic mushrooms.

Erin Patterson, 50, invited her former parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, each 70, and Gail Patterson’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66, to the deadly lunch on 29 July 2023.

The mother-of-two, from the state of Victoria in southern Australia, has additionally been convicted of the tried homicide of Mrs Wilkinson’s husband Reverend Ian Wilkinson.

All 4 fell in poor health after consuming a meal of beef wellington, mashed potatoes and inexperienced beans at Patterson’s residence within the city of Leongatha, the court docket was instructed.

Prosecutors stated Patterson knowingly laced the meat pastry dish with lethal demise cap mushrooms, also referred to as Amanita phalloides, at her residence.

The company ate their meals off 4 massive gray dinner plates, whereas Patterson ate from a smaller, tan-coloured plate, the court docket heard.

Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs Patterson died on Friday 4 August 2023, whereas Mr Patterson died a day later.

Reverend Wilkinson spent seven weeks in hospital however survived.

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Ian and Heather Wilkinson Pic: The Salvation Military Australia – Museum

Reverend Ian Wilkinson arrives at court. Pic: Reuters

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Ian Wilkinson arrives at court docket in the course of the trial. Pic: Reuters

Her estranged husband Simon Patterson, with whom she has two youngsters, was additionally invited to the lunch and initially accepted however later declined, the trial heard.

The jury was instructed that prosecutors had dropped three prices that Patterson had tried to homicide her husband, who she has been separated from since 2015.

Reverend Wilkinson stated that instantly after the meal, Patterson fabricated a most cancers prognosis, suggesting the lunch was put collectively in order that she may ask them the easiest way to inform her youngsters concerning the sickness.

The four people were fed death cap mushrooms. File pic

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Demise cap mushrooms. File pic: iStock

The prosecution stated she did this to justify the youngsters’s absence.

The defence didn’t dispute that Patterson lied about having most cancers.

The trial attracted intense curiosity in Australia – with podcasters, journalists and documentary-makers descending in town of Morwell, round two hours east of Melbourne, the place the court docket hearings passed off.

A sentencing date is but to be scheduled.

What makes demise cap mushrooms so deadly?

The demise cap is among the most poisonous mushrooms on the planet and is concerned within the majority of deadly mushroom poisonings worldwide.

The species incorporates three essential teams of poisons: amatoxins, phallotoxins, and virotoxins.

From these, amatoxins are primarily accountable for the poisonous results in people.

The alpha-amanitin amatoxin has been discovered to trigger protein deficit and in the end cell demise, though different mechanisms are considered concerned.

The liver is the primary organ that fails because of the poison, however different organs are additionally affected, most notably the kidneys.

The consequences often start after a brief latent interval and may embrace gastrointestinal issues adopted by jaundice, seizures, coma, and ultimately, demise.

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