An Australian woman on trial for allegedly murdering three of her relatives with a mushroom-laced meal told a court it was possible she had searched online for death cap mushrooms, although she could not recall doing so.
Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of killing her former in-laws Don and Gail Patterson, both aged 70, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, after allegedly serving them a Beef Wellington dish laced with death cap mushrooms at her home in Leongatha, a small town in regional Victoria, on 29 July 2023.
