Five family members sit down for a meal, only two survive.
It’s the case that gripped the nation – and the world.
The typically sleepy Victorian town of Leongatha was thrust into the spotlight after a family lunch turned deadly.
Erin Patterson welcomed her ex-husband’s parents Don and Gail Patterson and his aunt and uncle Heather and Ian Wilkinson to her home for a meal on July 29, 2023.
Months later, she was charged with the murders of Don, Gail and Heather, as well as the attempted murder of Ian.
It’s one of the most highly-anticipated trials in Australian legal history.
And we’re there every step of the way.
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Mushroom meal survivor’s touching tribute to murdered wife
Ian Wilkinson has shared stories of his wife Heather and made multiple mentions of Gail Patterson and Don Patterson at a sermon at the Korumburra Baptist Church.
‘Fear no evil’: Mushroom lunch survivor speaks out
Ian Wilkinson, the only guest to survive the deadly meal hosted by murderer Erin Patterson, has addressed the Korumburra Baptist Church for the first time since the trial.
Erin Patterson killed three people in her home. Now what happens to it?
Erin Patterson had a plan for her children to grow up in her $1.2m dollar “forever” home — but now she’s been found guilty of murder, that has drastically changed.
How long mushroom cook could be behind bars
Criminal lawyers have weighed in on Erin Patterson’s jail term as the triple killer could join the likes of Australia’s most heinous killers behind bars.
How Erin’s dream home in a ‘nature wonderland’ was used to kill
In what Erin Patterson told her friends was a “silver lining” to her mother’s death, money that followed allowed her to build her dream home on a “bush block”. It would become the scene of her chilling murder plot.
Adelaide link claims new details in mushroom murder trip
Cutting-edge SA research has zeroed-in on Erin Patterson’s fateful trip to the death cap mushroom field where she picked the poison for her crimes.