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Australian police have brought murder charges against a woman who served a lunch earlier this year that led to the deaths of three people from suspected death cap mushroom poisoning.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Am I mixing up two stories or has the presumption of her guilt changed at least a couple of times? I feel like I remember the story breaking and she being suspected of poisoning, then seeing that she wasn’t a suspect, and now this. I can’t remember if there were multiple poisoning incidents or if this one was just a roller coaster.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Na the police play it like this to get the suspect to slip up.

They have done it a few times in the past where they have most evidence but need a slam dunk. The Jetstar pilot involved in the elderly couple camping remote for example.

They tell them they are not looking at them (but bug their house / car etc), then leak stuff to the media to spook them into talking or trying to hide evidence.

A few months later the police have already filled out all the paperwork for a slam dunk and make the arrest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same here. I vaguely remember the murder was ruled out because other people didn't die and it was a supposed "honest mistake". Am confused now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Origionally she said that she just got some mushrooms from "the asian market". I'm assuming they found out that wasn't actually the case at which point any plausable deniability she had went out the window.

Accidental mushroom poisoning isn't terribly rare among amateur foragers who have no idea what they're doing. So her saying that she just bought them off of someone is somewhat believable. But if they discovered that she lied about where she got them then it goes from believable accident to almost certainly murder in an instant.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Accidental mushroom poisoning isn’t terribly rare among amateur foragers who have no idea what they’re doing. So her saying that she just bought them off of someone is somewhat believable.

The unbelievable part from the beginning is that all the people that ate the deadly mushrooms were her ex-inlaws while AT THE SAME MEAL she served her children and herself a completely different set of food. She cooked two entirely different meals. Magically she and her children didn't eat the deadly one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It's also not the first time she had accidentally poisoned somebody with mushrooms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Can’t wait for the Lifetime movie. /s