Police say the symptoms of the four sickened family members were consistent with poisoning from wild amanita phalloides, known as death cap mushrooms. Death cap mushrooms sprout freely throughout ...

By then, medical staff had diagnosed her guests as suffering death cap poisoning.Erin Patterson told authorities that she had cooked with a mixture of fresh mushrooms bought from a supermarket and ...

Doctors said the symptoms matched death cap mushroom poisoning, which forensic tests later confirmed. The prosecution alleges that Ms Patterson, 50, deliberately poisoned the lunch guests after ...

The trial of a woman accused of murdering three members of her family and attempting to kill a fourth with a dish laced with poisonous mushrooms has begun. Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to ...