A family lunch in Australia turned deadly after poisoned mushrooms killed three relatives. Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders examines the shocking case and trial.

Netflix UK viewers have been tuning in to watch true crime documentary Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders, and many are ...

The Mushroom Murders zooms in on the high-profile — and highly unusual — case of Erin Patterson, an Australian woman who was ...

Mature death caps have a smooth top cap that may be white or yellow with a green hue. (Getty Images) Death cap mushrooms have made headlines this week after a jury found an Australian woman guilty of ...

California authorities are warning people not to eat foraged mushrooms for the time being after nearly two dozen people were sickened — including one fatally — by a highly poisonous mushroom known as ...

In recent weeks, 21 cases of toxic poisoning from wild, foraged mushrooms – likely from the ominously named death cap mushroom – have been reported in California. So far, one of those cases has ...

Death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) are among the world’s most poisonous fungi, responsible for the majority of fatal ...

While some mushrooms are completely harmless and, in fact, quite delicious to eat, others can cause severe or fatal health risks. The death cap mushroom, or Amanita phalloides, is aptly named due to ...

The two children Erin and Simon share are currently living under a legal suppression order, meaning they cannot be named or ...

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