Overview
- A Supreme Court jury delivered unanimous guilty verdicts on July 7 after a nine-week trial and six days of deliberation.
- Patterson was convicted of three counts of murder for poisoning her parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson and aunt Heather Wilkinson.
- She was also found guilty of attempting to murder Ian Wilkinson, who survived the poisoning after weeks in hospital and an organ transplant.
- Prosecutors relied on phone-tower data, web search histories and mushroom residue from a discarded food dehydrator to show deliberate foraging and preparation of death cap mushrooms.
- Sentencing is pending and a date will be scheduled for her to receive the mandatory life sentence under Victorian law.