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She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Australia is gripped by the mysterious deaths of three people in a suspected poisoning case that reads like a fictional thriller.

Two couples were invited to lunch at a palatial country home in the state of Victoria one Saturday in late July. They included a local pastor and his wife. All four were known to locals as pillars of the tightknit rural community.

That night, they all became seriously ill with what appeared to be food poisoning. A week later, three of the four were dead. One man remains in hospital in a critical condition, awaiting a liver transplant. The host of the gathering — a woman in her 40s — and her two children were unharmed.

Police suspect the victims ate death cap, or Amanita phalloides, mushrooms, one of the deadliest known mushrooms to humans. But whether the poisonings were intentional, or if the fungus is even the culprit, is shrouded in mystery. The guests’ symptoms were consistent with mushroom poisoning, medical experts and investigators say.

Homicide detectives have searched the home of Erin Patterson, the 48-year-old woman who hosted the gathering in Leongatha, about 70 miles southeast of Melbourne. She was taken in for questioning Saturday and released without charge later that evening.

During the search, investigators seized several items they say are of interest to the case. A food dehydrator found at a local landfill is apparently also being tested to see if there is any link, Melbourne’s Age newspaper reported, citing an anonymous police source close to the investigation. Police declined to confirm whether a dehydrator is among the items being examined.

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So the 3 of the 4 people she invited died, the 4th needs a liver transplant. She fed her children something different and they're fine. Her ex husband got very sick.

Hmm.

[–] veroxii@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2 of the dead people were her parents-in-law. So her ex husband's parents.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

HMMMMMMMMMM

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A real head scratcher…

To be fair, anyone in her family could’ve added poison to the food though.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Sounds like the setup to Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

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