15 Oct 2025

Feature: The Mushroom Murders - What really happened?

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 15 October 2025

A quiet family lunch ends with three dead, one barely alive, and the world taunted by the question: did Erin Patterson serve up death cap mushrooms in the Beef Wellington lunch on purpose? That question was more than a matter of idle speculation for members of the jury in the Patterson Trial. The Australian writer behind Underbelly and Pine Gap has produced one of the first deep dives into the case that had the world riveted in not a whodunit, but a how did she do it. Greg Haddrick lays out the case from the perspective of a juror in his new book is The Mushroom Murders: A Family Lunch. Three Deaths. What Really Happened?

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