The cook convicted of killing three lunch guests with the world’s most toxic mushrooms was sentenced to three life sentences with a non-parole period of 33 years on Monday, bookending a real-life crime drama that’s gripped Australia and spawned multiple podcasts and documentaries.
    • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      It felt longer than it was because of the way it was covered by the media. On the last season of The Mushroom Killer…

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        Oh agree. But still two years is a while when the facts where not hotly disputed.

        It also feels like a life time ago she was arrested.

  • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I don’t want to be brutal or anything but this is a really horrible way to murder 4 people, and the only fitting punishment is to execute her by mushroom poisoning. Notice the timeline it took the survivor 7 weeks to recover, and those who died it was over a week of hospitalized pain and organ failure.

    Also her estranged husband is kind of complicit? He suspected attempted poisoning twice before and declined the lunch? But you don’t warn your parents? That might be hard to live with.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      31 minutes ago

      I disagree, but only because I strongly believe that anyone commonly considered deserving of the death penalty shouldn’t get such an easy way out; give them a nice, long life sentence. In her case, feed her just enough mycotoxin to keep her perpetually sick but not kill her. Sometimes cruel and unusual is warranted.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    “I’m sick of this shit I want nothing to do with them,” she wrote.

    I just don’t get this mentality. Then why bother inviting them to dinner and killing them?

    How about not inviting them to dinner, and not talking to them at all?

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        I’ve recently abandoned the idea that there’s a difference between stupidity and evil also. Our species has shown me too many times that there is no effective, discernable difference in outcome so we should start treating it the same way.

      • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        I just watched that Netflix documentary Unknown Number last night.

        Although with that one, it could almost entirely be explained that she’s got some crazy fucked up narcissistic personality disorder.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    23 hours ago

    … died after suffering severe gastrointestinal illness that culminated in multiple organ failure

    Got damn, what a way to go.

    • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      Even more horrifying when you realise it can take days for you to even realise something is seriously wrong. Amatoxins are very very sinister compounds, you initially just get some mild GI upset & recover from it but then a few days later your kidneys and liver fail aruptly (which is apparently horrifically painful).

  • someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Erin Patterson, 50, was found guilty in July of murdering three people, including the parents, aunt and uncle of her estranged husband, Simon Patterson, with a beef wellington meal she had deliberately laced with death cap mushrooms picked near her rural home in the state of Victoria in 2023.

    Simon Patterson cancelled the night before.