‘Fungi fatale’ and ‘death cap stare’: how the world’s media reported Erin Patterson’s guilty verdict

For more than two months, the Australian mushroom triple-murder trial has gripped the world – here’s how it finished up on the front page
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The murder trial has spawned podcasts, documentaries, thousands of column inches, viral social media posts – and a rapt global audience.
After a week of deliberation, a supreme court jury found Victorian woman Erin Patterson guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after three guests died and one almost died after eating her homemade beef wellington lunch. Continue reading...
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