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By IAN WHITEHEAD MORWELL Magistrates Court, 3.30am, Wednesday, June 4. USA network CNN is reporting direct from Morwell.
Erin Patterson in the mushroom killer movie? Hollywood is buzzing as casting heats up for the new true crime drama.
Next to the mushroom cook killer at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre on the city’s northern fringe was headmistress rapist Malka Leifer in cell 28. Samantha Azzopardi, the career conwoman and child ...
What to make of the all-you-can-eat buffet of mushroom headlines, podcasts and TV specials.
A complex murder trial creates the perfect screen onto which the audience can project their fantasies: to be entertained by ...
Opinion
Deadly Intentions
The recent conviction of Erin Patterson in Australia has sent shockwaves far beyond the quiet Victorian town of Morwell where her crime unfolded.
Over 11 weeks, documentary crews and journalists from around the globe flooded the Latrobe Valley Law Courts, where only six ...
For years, from behind a computer screen, Erin Patterson built up a reputation in an online true crime community as a "super sleuth". Today, she herself has become a true crime obsession.
Erin Patterson, 50, killed three of her relatives with a deadly death cap mushroom-laced beef Wellington and has somehow already landed a job in the prison kitchen ...
Erin Patterson's sprawling Leongatha home where the fatal mushroom lunch was served is now only an eerie reminder of a murder ...
Erin Patterson looks much like you’d expect any middle-aged Australian woman to – brown hair, glasses, unremarkable clothes. As University of Sydney criminologist Dr Helen Easton pointed out, “she ...
The triple-murder by death cap mushroom captured the nation's attention. But with no cameras allowed in, it's the job of courtroom artists to capture what's happening. Anita Lester's depiction of Erin ...