Overview
- Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders is now streaming on Netflix, examining the 2023 Leongatha lunch where three relatives died and a fourth survived.
- The jury found Erin Patterson guilty of murdering Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson and attempting to murder Ian Wilkinson by serving beef Wellington containing death cap mushrooms.
- Experts in the series explain that Amanita phalloides contains amatoxins that survive cooking and can be lethal in tiny amounts.
- Justice Beale imposed three consecutive life sentences plus 25 years, making Patterson ineligible for parole for at least 33 years.
- Patterson is incarcerated at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Melbourne, and media reports say she lodged an appeal in November 2025.