Three people are dead and one is critically ill with poisonous 'death cap' mushroom symptoms after attending an Australian dinner party.
A meal of suspected death cap mushrooms served at a family lunch in late July is at the center of a homicide investigation in Australia following the deaths of three guests less than a week later,Erin Patterson served the meal to her former parents-in-law and her mother-in-law's sister and husband, who were guests at her home in the town of Leongatha in southern Victoria, on July 29, according to Victoria Police.
In a tearful exchange with local media outside her home on Monday, Erin Patterson denied any wrongdoing. ALSO SEE: Dentist poisons wife's protein shakes, kills her to be with woman he was having affair with: police "Even if initial symptoms subside serious liver damage may have occurred that may result in death," the warning said.
When asked by reporters what meal she had cooked, Patterson didn't answer, instead retreating inside her home with the request to leave her alone.
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