Prosecutors allege she intended to kill two elderly couples – including her children’s grandparents – and deliberately picked death cap mushrooms for murder.

Death cap mushrooms contain toxins that stop the production ... Gail Patterson had brought an orange cake to lunch to share, and Erin Patterson testified that after the guests left, she found ...

The “everything is a mushroom” camp says fruiting bodies, mycelium and spores are all classified as “parts of the mushroom organism,” and therefore, every part that grows during the lifecycle ...

Claims alleged poisoner Erin Patterson sought out death cap mushrooms months ahead of a lunch with her in-laws have been ...

Hunters waited at the Ryerson’s Woods trailhead in Iowa City on a beautiful late April Saturday morning. Older men with walking sticks wore blaze orange caps. University students in shorts […] ...

The mother-of-two is on the stand at her murder trial, accused of killing her three in-laws with poisonous death cap ...

NSW Health and local councils have detected the growth of death cap mushrooms in the state. Surveillance over the past two years has seen the fungi growing in Sydney, the Southern Highlands and ...

An Australian woman accused of killing three lunch guests with deadly mushrooms should not be judged guilty just because she lied after the meal, her defence lawyer said Wednesday. As the trial came ...

The judge overseeing Erin Patterson’s triple-murder trial has given jurors an update on what they can expect for the coming week.

Patterson had also visited a website listing locations of death cap mushrooms near where she lived ... for her guests -- but herself ate from an orange dish. Patterson did not own plates that ...