Mushroom cook Erin Patterson’s phone was detected near an area in Gippsland where lethal death caps were growing one day after their exact location was posted online by a mushroom expert, a jury has heard.
A digital forensic expert has told the jury the alleged murderer’s phone was detected near two known sites of toxic death cap mushrooms in the days after their locations were posted online.
The “Mushroom cook” trial has been about family ties, and the relationship between Erin Patterson and her estranged husband has been littered in the evidence, where money became an issue.
A forensic toxicologist has returned to the witness box to detail how bodily fluid samples taken from lunch guests were analysed by experts and linked to highly poisonous mushrooms.
A Gippsland mushroom grower has revealed he became the target of tasteless, crass mushroom jokes after three people died from alleged death cap poisoning after a lunch in Leongatha.
Erin Patterson amassed a bunch of social media accounts under different aliases, with detectives taking a special interest in her Facebook use.
Accused triple murderer Erin Patterson has been ordered to front court for a special hearing almost two weeks earlier than planned.
On a wintry Saturday afternoon, a woman invites her former in-laws over for lunch and cooks them a beef wellington dish. Hours later, all four people fall ill. Within days, three are dead.
The typically sleepy Victorian town of Leongatha was thrust into the spotlight after a family lunch turned deadly and sparked a media frenzy across the globe.
The woman accused of murdering three people with poisonous mushrooms has been forced into a protected prison unit alongside pedophile rapist Malka Leifer amid fears for her safety.
The first morsels of information in the police case against Leongatha woman Erin Patterson have been laid bare almost nine months to the day since the notorious mushroom lunch.
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