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There’s a particularly “devious” mushroom found in Ireland, the brown roll-rim, which O’Dea notes can kill someone after they ...
No one has disputed that death cap mushrooms were in the beef wellington that killed three people and left another in a coma ...
It started as a home-cooked meal, ended in multiple deaths and a court sentence for Erin Patterson. Here's how the death cap ...
More than 100 calls were made to the National Poisons Information Centre (NPIC) over suspected mushroom poisoning during the ...
Erin Patterson, 50, was found guilty of murdering three relatives and attempting to murder a fourth on Monday after she laced their meal with death cap mushrooms.
Death cap mushrooms have a large domed or white cap, depending on age and an off-white stem. They can grow up to 15cm wide ...
But over nine weeks, the jury heard evidence suggesting she had foraged death cap mushrooms sighted in nearby towns and lured ...
An innocuous-looking mushroom with a sweet smell and a sinister name lay at the centre of Australian woman Erin Patterson's ...
Intensive care doctor says murder convict’s lunch guests were ‘certainly the sickest patients in the whole state’ ...
Mushroom Killer' Erin Patterson, who has been found guilty of murder, poisoned her own in-laws after they prayed for her over ...
Jury members have retired to decide the fate of an Australian woman accused of murdering three members of her husband's ...
Simon Claringbold picked and ate wild mushrooms from his garden. Days later, he thought he was taking his last breath.