Australian woman found guilty in mushroom murder trial

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Erin Patterson, 50, found guilty of murdering her estranged husband’s parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms.

An Australian woman has been found guilty of murdering her estranged husband’s parents and aunt by serving them a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms.

Erin Patterson was convicted of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder on Monday following a nine-week trial in the regional town of Morwell.

Patterson, 50, had pleaded not guilty to the murders of her father-in-law, Donald Patterson, mother-in-law, Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, as well as the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband.

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