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Prosecutors say it will take months to analyse computer equipment seized from the home of a woman charged with murder over a mushroom meal linked to three deaths in Victoria's east.
The host of a weekend family lunch at her Australian country home was charged Thursday with murdering her ex-husband's parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms and attempting to murder a fourth guest, police said. Police arrested Erin Patterson, 49, at her home in the Victoria state town of Leongatha, where her former husband's parents, Gail and Don Patterson, both 70, Gail Patterson's sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, and Wilkinson's husband, Ian Wilkinson, 68, were invited for lunch July 29. All four guests were hospitalized the next day, and only Ian Wilkinson survived.
The host of a weekend family lunch at her Australian country home was charged Thursday with murdering her ex-husband's parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms and attempting to murder a fourth guest, police said. Police arrested Erin Patterson, 49, at her home in the Victoria state town of Leongatha, where her former husband’s parents, Gail
Australian officials say toxicology reports suggest the victims consumed "death cap" mushrooms during a family lunch in July.
The cook at the centre of the deadly mushroom meal has appeared in court charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder.