38 h. ago The signs Erin Patterson killed the mother she loathed: CANDACE SUTTON reveals the horrifying police suspicions hanging over the mushroom murderer that couldn't be revealed... until now

When Victoria Police investigated Erin Patterson over the mushroom poisoning deaths, they considered the possibility that she might have been a serial killer, not merely a triple-murderer.

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5 d. ago Erin Patterson's chilling mushroom poison Facebook post before killing family

Prosecutors wanted to use digital records showing Patterson's post on a Facebook group about her cat eating a poisonous mushroom - despite her not having one - in her trial

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5 d. ago Australian mushroom murderer 'served poisoned pasta, chicken curry and wrap to her husband'

Simon Patterson kept a spreadsheet of his illnesses the court heard he suffered after eating his estranged wife's cooking

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5 d. ago Erin Patterson trial: Judge lifts gag order on new evidence the jury didn’t see

Erin Patterson’s husband says he feared estranged wife would poison him

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5 d. ago Australian mushroom murderer 'also tried to poison her HUSBAND with pasta, a chicken curry and a sandwich wrap'

A jury last month found Erin Patterson lured her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Don Patterson and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, to lunch at her home and poisoned them.

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5 d. ago Revealed at last: The dramatic footage of the very moment Erin Patterson sealed her fate as she told lie after lie to detectives

It was the moment Erin Patterson had been dreading in the years leading up to her epic murder trial. 

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5 d. ago Judge lifts gag order in mushroom poison trial to reveal new evidence the jury didn’t see

Erin Patterson’s husband says he feared estranged wife would poison him

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5 d. ago What the jury wasn't allowed to hear in the Erin Patterson trial: suspicions and mystery illnesses

Material and claims the jury in Australia’s mushroom lunch murder trial wasn’t allowed to hear can be reported after a suppression order was liftedFive key moments in the murder trial of Australia’s mushroom lunch cookErin Patterson’s hospital visit – and what the beef wellingtons really looked like: mushroom murder exhibits revealedSimon Patterson told his father, Don, and other family members that he suspected his estranged wife, Erin Patterson, had been trying to poison him before she invited his parents and his aunt and uncle to a fatal beef wellington lunch, according to evidence heard in a pre-trial hearing.One argument heard in court, but not able to be revealed to the jury in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial, involved police suspicions that she might have previously used rat poison in an alleged attempt to kill Simon.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Husband suspected wife of poisoning him before she killed 3 relatives with toxic mushrooms

An Australian court has heard a husband suspected his wife of poisoning him over a year before she murdered three of his relatives with toxic mushrooms

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6 d. ago What the jury wasn't told about Erin Patterson: Husband reveals how she made him four 'poisonous' meals that left him gravely ill

Erin Patterson 's estranged husband knew his wife was dangerous long before the fateful lunch that claimed the lives of his parents and aunt.

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6 d. ago Médecins Sans Frontières calls for immediate closure of US and Israelibacked aid group in Gaza – Middle East crisis live

MSF says it has rarely ‘seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians’ as it has at GHF aid sitesThe medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for the immediate closure of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the US- and Israeli-backed aid organisation operating in Gaza, describing GHF-run food distribution sites in Gaza as having become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”.In a social media post on Thursday, MSF wrote:“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”The GHF-run food distributions in Gaza, Palestine, have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”, not humanitarian aid.During those seven weeks, our teams treated 71 children for gunshot wounds, 25 of whom were under the age of 15. Faced with no alternatives to find food, starved families frequently send teenage boys into this lethal environment, as they are often the only males in the ...

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9 d. ago Watch the critical video evidence used to convict mushroom cook killer Erin Patterson

CCTV footage shows Patterson visiting Koonwarra transfer station in rural Victoria on August 2, 2023, four days after she served four guests a beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms.

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3 w. ago Sole survivor of the deadly mushroom lunch makes first public appearance since triple murderer Erin Patterson was found guilty

Ian Wilkinson was spotted in public for the first time since Erin Patterson was found guilty of murdering three people.

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3 w. ago Woman's chilling Facebook post weeks before she 'got lover to murder her Berkeley professor ex

Nadia Michelidaki, 43, and her boyfriend Christos Dounias, 35, were arrested this week for the shooting murder of UC Berkeley professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski.

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