The world has been transfixed by the case of Erin Patterson: the Australian woman convicted of mass murder, having brutally killed three members of her family using death cap mushrooms, as well as the attempted murder of a fourth.
While Australia doesn’t have a strict definition, mass murder, also referred to as “mass killing”, is defined in United States federal law as the killing of three or more people in a single incident, excluding the perpetrator.
Cases about women who commit mass murder are rare. Very rare. This makes them all the more interesting for the public.
