Australian woman faces court for alleged mushroom murders November 02, 2023 at 07:46PM

A woman in Australia has been accused of poisoning her in-laws with a toxic mushroom lunch and attempting to kill her estranged husband multiple times. Erin Patterson, 49, is charged with three counts of murder for allegedly serving a poisonous beef Wellington that killed her parents-in-law and another guest. She has also been charged with four counts of attempted murder for allegedly making her husband ill on separate occasions. The alleged triple murder has shocked the farming town of Leongatha. Patterson claims she bought the mushrooms from a grocery store.