Australian woman denies murder and cancer claims in mushroom trial
TL;DR
An Australian woman, Erin Patterson, is on trial for allegedly poisoning her relatives with toxic mushrooms during a lunch, with prosecutors claiming she weighed a lethal dose on kitchen scales and had foraged for deadly fungi, while she denies intentionally harming her guests, asserting it was an accident.
- Mushroom trial: Accused weighed fatal dose on kitchen scales, prosecutors say BBC
- Australian woman on trial for mushroom murder of in-laws says she was trying to fix a 'bland' lunch AP News
- Death caps and cancer claims: how Erin Patterson responded to first day of mushroom trial cross-examination The Guardian
- Australian murder suspect is cross-examined over poisonous mushroom meal NBC News
- Erin Patterson denies telling lunch guests she had cancer — as it happened Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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