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

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

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 ...

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 July 2023, Erin Patterson invited four of her ex-husband’s relatives to lunch at her home in Leongatha, a small town in Victoria. Within days, three of them had died. Her estranged husband’s uncle ...

California's poison control system says there have been 21 poisonings in recent weeks from wild death cap mushrooms.

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 ...

Last month, the California Poison Control System reported 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning linked to wild, foraged mushrooms.

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