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Sep 2025
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The Mushroom Cook - The Trial | The sen...

TRUE CRIME AUSTRALIA
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Mushroom cook Erin Patterson has learnt her fate, with Justice Christopher Beale sentencing the triple murderer to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years. His words were live-streamed to the public, but from the steps of the courthouse, sole survivor Ian Wilkinson had some words of his own.

The Mushroom Cook team is Brooke Grebert-Craig, Laura Placella, Anthony Dowsley, Jordy Atkinson and Jonty Burton

The Mushroom Cook is a Herald Sun production for True Crime Australia.

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