{"id":21721,"date":"2025-04-29T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/woman-accused-of-murdering-3-people-with-toxic-mushroom-laced-meal-heads-to-trial-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:20:06","slug":"woman-accused-of-murdering-3-people-with-toxic-mushroom-laced-meal-heads-to-trial-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/woman-accused-of-murdering-3-people-with-toxic-mushroom-laced-meal-heads-to-trial-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of murdering 3 people with toxic mushroom-laced meal heads to trial in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An Australian woman accused of murdering three people with a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/3-dead-wild-mushrooms-family-lunch-australia-erin-patterson-investigated\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">toxic mushroom-laced Beef Wellington<\/a><\/span> faces trial on Wednesday in a case that has grabbed global attention.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Patterson, 50, is charged with three murders \u2014 including both of her parents-in-law \u2014 and one attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>She has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/erin-patterson-charged-murder-poisonous-death-cap-mushrooms\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">pleaded not guilty<\/a><\/span> to all counts.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson is accused of hosting a July 2023 lunch at which she served the baked pastry-and-beef dish, which police said was laced with poisonous mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Her estranged parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, and a local pastor&#8217;s wife, Heather Wilkinson, died in the days after the meal.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson&#8217;s husband Ian recovered after nearly two months in hospital. The BBC had reported during his hospitalization that he was waiting on a liver transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson was arrested in November 2023,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-68967342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the BBC reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/02\/3d712bbf-86d4-4d98-ad2f-5d0772dd26ca\/thumbnail\/620x413\/25d8b699f407f7d0bcd83102cda10917\/ap23306068492922.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc#\" alt=\"Australia Poisonous Mushrooms \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/02\/3d712bbf-86d4-4d98-ad2f-5d0772dd26ca\/thumbnail\/620x413\/25d8b699f407f7d0bcd83102cda10917\/ap23306068492922.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/11\/02\/3d712bbf-86d4-4d98-ad2f-5d0772dd26ca\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/60d56e1f4216a9027ff540d41b5eec8b\/ap23306068492922.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A police officer and dog investigate at the property of Erin Patterson in Leongatha, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Australian police arrested Patterson in an investigation of a suspected mushroom poisoning incident that left three people dead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                James Ross\/AAP Image via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Patterson will be tried in the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell, south of Melbourne &#8212; about an hour&#8217;s drive from Leongatha, where the allegedly fatal meal was eaten.<\/p>\n<p>A jury of 15 people was selected on Tuesday and will be whittled down to 12 via ballot as the verdict nears.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Christopher Beale told the jurors that prosecutors had dropped separate charges against Patterson alleging she had also attempted to murder her estranged husband.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Beale urged the jury to &#8220;dispassionately&#8221; weigh the evidence in the case, using their heads and not their hearts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr5dj9q011lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the BBC reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is expected to run for six weeks and will begin with opening statements from the prosecution and defense, each side giving a summary of their case and detailing the witnesses and evidence they plan to rely on.<\/p>\n<p>The case made headlines worldwide, sparking a string of podcasts and a television documentary series on Australian streaming service Stan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/04\/22\/e211656a-4ece-405a-bc11-3120cdbce593\/thumbnail\/620x430\/a022f6566ccbea2078c776c3bd70c181\/ap24113062140881.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc#\" alt=\"Australia Mushroom Poisoning \" height=\"430\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/04\/22\/e211656a-4ece-405a-bc11-3120cdbce593\/thumbnail\/620x430\/a022f6566ccbea2078c776c3bd70c181\/ap24113062140881.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/04\/22\/e211656a-4ece-405a-bc11-3120cdbce593\/thumbnail\/1240x860\/de9ad1be2ff51f73250a2133f6aa3a7f\/ap24113062140881.jpg?v=8e9dede207b29c97b32974c53e32aabc 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In this courtroom sketch, Erin Patterson appears in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court, Australia, on Nov. 3, 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Anita Lester \/AAP image via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Victoria state&#8217;s Supreme Court has imposed strict guidelines on reporting about the case to ensure Patterson receives a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>While the court is open to the public, the case will not be televised.<\/p>\n<h2>What are death cap mushrooms?<\/h2>\n<p>Police say the symptoms of the four sickened family members were consistent with poisoning from wild amanita phalloides, known as\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/umass-memorial-medical-center-amherst-mushroom-poisoning-kam-look-kai-chen\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">death cap mushrooms<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Death cap mushrooms sprout freely throughout wet, warm parts of Australia and are easily mistaken for edible varieties.<\/p>\n<p>They reportedly taste sweeter than other types of mushrooms but possess potent toxins that slowly poison the liver and kidneys.<\/p>\n<p>Death caps are responsible for 90% of lethal mushroom poisoning globally, the BBC reported. In 2020, a spate of poisonings in Victoria killed one person and hospitalized seven others.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that Erin Patterson had written in a statement that she had cooked a Beef Wellington steak dish for the lunch using mushrooms bought from a major supermarket chain and dried mushrooms from an Asian grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote that she had also eaten the meal and later suffered stomach pains and diarrhea.<\/p>\n<p>Her children, who were not present at the lunch, ate some of the leftover Beef Wellington the next day,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-67293752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the BBC reported<\/a>. 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