The Mushroom Tapes opens with a blunt refusal to accept a murder trial as spectator sport:
It starts and we are not even there. Everyone in the world is talking about it. People say to us, you must be going. No, we answer. No. No. No. A woman is being tried for triple murder.“
I doubt there is an Australian who has not at least heard of the "mushroom murders” case – Erin Patterson’s trial and conviction for the triple murder of her estranged husband’s parents and aunt (and attempted murder of his uncle), via a beef Wellington containing death cap mushrooms.
