This is The Guardian.
Today, a beef wellington, the death cap mushrooms,
and a murder trial watched by the world.
July 2023, in the small Australian town of Leongatha,
a family get together for a meal, a beef wellington.
And within days, it becomes national news.
Gail Patterson and her husband Don visited their former daughter-in-law at her home for a family lunch.
Joining them was Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, and husband, Ian.
That night, all four fell ill.
It quickly gets much worse.
Three people are dead and one man is fighting for his life this morning after he suspected mushroom poisoning in South Gippsland in Victoria.
The Beef Wellington.
It contained death cap mushrooms, the deadliest in the world.
The former daughter-in-law of two of the deceased has been quizzed by police in a case that has left detectives baffled.
Focus shifts to one woman in particular, a survivor of the meal,
the one who cooked it, Erin Patterson.
Police say you're a suspect.
Do you have anything to say about that?
Yes, I say I didn't do anything.
I love them.