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What's behind our ‘Australian mushroom murderer' fascination?
It's been three years since the Erin Patterson case first gripped Australia and the world after she murdered three people by serving them a meal laced with deadly death cap mushrooms. Since then there have been multiple podcasts, books, countless news articles and now television series, with New Zealand's own Melanie Lynskey set to play Patterson. And today, the case was back in the headlines, with Victoria's Court of Appeal rejecting Patterson's bid to overturn her murder convictions and increasing her sentence to life in prison without parole So will our fascination with this case ever fade? And what do Australians make of the seemingly endless appetite for it? Joining Emile is Dr Xanthe Weston a Criminologist, from Australia's CQUniversity.