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Mushroom Murderer Erin Patterson's Decision to Testify Fails to Convince Jury
The defence will call Erin Patterson,” Mandy told the court. Patterson, who was convicted on Monday of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, was the only witness for her defence in a 10-week trial that gripped Australia.
Erin Patterson convicted for murder of husband’s family with deadly mushrooms
Australian woman Erin Patterson was convicted Monday of murdering her estranged husband’s family by poisoning them with death cap mushrooms. Patterson, 50, faces up to life in prison for the deaths of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson following a meal at her home in Leongatha in July 2023.
The church invite for a seemingly ordinary lunch invitation turned into a chilling tale of murder from which only one guest ...
Erin Patterson, 50, was charged with the murders of her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Donald Patterson, and ...
Ian and Heather Wilkinson were then transferred for acute care at another hospital. Within days, three of the four lunch guests were dead. Ian Wilkinson, the pastor, lived after weeks of hospital ...
Jurors in the murder trial of mushroom cook Erin Patterson have been taken to 15 alleged acts of incriminating conduct the ...
Heather Wilkinson (left) and Don and Gail Patterson (right) died in hospital after eating a meal suspected to have contained poisoned mushroom. Source: AAP / Supplied The sole survivor of a deadly ...
The mother of two was accused of Heather Wilkinson, Gail and Don Patterson, the 70-year-old parents of her ex-husband, and Wilkinson's nephew Simon Patterson.
Ian Wilkinson told the courtroom on Tuesday that he and his wife Heather had been "very happy to be invited" to the lunch hosted by Erin Patterson. But the meal left Heather and two other ...
The mother of two also denies attempting to murder Heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson, who survived the meal. In a rare step for a defendant charged with murder, Patterson chose to speak in her own ...
Heather Wilkinson was the sister of Gail Patterson and aunt of Simon Patterson, Erin Patterson’s estranged husband. Heather married Ian Wilkinson in February 1979 and had four children.
Ian Wilkinson says Gail and Heather offered to help Erin Patterson serve the food, but ‘the offer was rejected’ Ian Wilkinson, the only guest who survived the lunch, has for the first time ...
Ian Wilkinson told the courtroom on Tuesday that he and his wife Heather had been "very happy to be invited" to the lunch hosted by Erin Patterson. But the meal left Heather and two other ...
Erin Patterson, 50, has been found guilty of killing three relatives and attempting to murder another, a court in Australia ...
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