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[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 108 points 3 months ago

“I’m sick of this shit I want nothing to do with them,” she wrote.

I just don’t get this mentality. Then why bother inviting them to dinner and killing them?

How about not inviting them to dinner, and not talking to them at all?

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 3 months ago

A true crime cunt who thinks she's smarter than her heroes and gets away with it.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago

… died after suffering severe gastrointestinal illness that culminated in multiple organ failure

Got damn, what a way to go.

[-] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 3 months ago

Even more horrifying when you realise it can take days for you to even realise something is seriously wrong. Amatoxins are very very sinister compounds, you initially just get some mild GI upset & recover from it but then a few days later your kidneys and liver fail aruptly (which is apparently horrifically painful).

[-] aeternum 39 points 3 months ago

I believe Ian Wilkinson who survived had to have a liver transplant and all the things that go with that. He survived barely

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Erin Patterson, 50, was found guilty in July of murdering three people, including the parents, aunt and uncle of her estranged husband, Simon Patterson, with a beef wellington meal she had deliberately laced with death cap mushrooms picked near her rural home in the state of Victoria in 2023.

Simon Patterson cancelled the night before.

[-] manxu@piefed.social 42 points 3 months ago

Was found guilty of murdering three people, including four people?

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 22 points 3 months ago

Guilty of 3 counts of murder, 1 count attempted murder.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

The uncle survived.

[-] Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 6 points 3 months ago

Yes, they were killed to death.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Too bad she missed her cousin Jordan

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 months ago

I don’t want to be brutal or anything but this is a really horrible way to murder 4 people, and the only fitting punishment is to execute her by mushroom poisoning. Notice the timeline it took the survivor 7 weeks to recover, and those who died it was over a week of hospitalized pain and organ failure.

Also her estranged husband is kind of complicit? He suspected attempted poisoning twice before and declined the lunch? But you don’t warn your parents? That might be hard to live with.

[-] az04@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I saw a video on this by Ann Reardon a few months ago, it explained what happened well: https://youtu.be/Q_G6y3L0oQI

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago
[-] hazl 3 points 3 months ago

It felt longer than it was because of the way it was covered by the media. On the last season of The Mushroom Killer...

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Oh agree. But still two years is a while when the facts where not hotly disputed.

It also feels like a life time ago she was arrested.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

What kind of bullshit joke of an organization puts a EULA on a news site?

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

I'm guessing you loaded the article while connected to a VPN.

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