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Recipe for murder : the poisonous truth behind Erin Patterson, the mushroom murderer of Leongatha

McNab, Duncan2025
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On 29 July 2023 in Leongatha, a small town in rural Victoria, family and friends of local woman Erin Patterson sit down for Sunday lunch. On the menu, Beef Wellington. The next day, four of the guests are hospitalised. Doctors suspect death cap mushroom poisoning. Within a week, three of them will be dead. On 2 November that same year, Erin Patterson is arrested and charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. Did Patterson deliberately poison her estranged husband's parents, aunt and uncle? Was the lunch a recipe for murder? Patterson insisted no. Investigative journalist and former detective, Duncan McNab has sifted through the evidence, spoken to witnesses and attended the nine-week trial. This is the true story of the mushroom murderer of Leongatha.
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