SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police on Wednesday have been making an attempt to determine how three folks died and a fourth grew to become critically unwell after apparently consuming wild mushrooms at a household lunch.
Homicide detectives have been investigating the case. Police have interviewed the girl who they are saying cooked the meal at her house on July 29 however didn’t develop into unwell herself. Police launched her with out submitting any fees however say she stays a suspect.
The girl advised media exterior her house within the city of Leongatha, in Victoria state, that she didn’t know what had occurred.
“I didn’t do anything,” she advised Network Nine on Monday. “I loved them and I’m devastated they’re gone.”
The girl declined to reply questions on what meals have been served to which visitors or the origin of the mushrooms.
Victoria Police Det. Inspector Dean Thomas stated it wasn’t clear what kind of mushrooms the visitors had eaten, however their signs have been in line with these from a dying cap, a very lethal selection.
He stated it will take a while to find out what occurred and police have been maintaining an open thoughts.
“It could be very innocent but, again, we just don’t know,” Thomas stated.
The girl had been internet hosting her in-laws, Gail and Don Patterson, each aged 70. Both died at space hospitals. Also on the lunch have been Gail Patterson’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, who died, and husband Ian Wilkinson, 68, a Baptist pastor who remained hospitalized this week in essential situation.
Thomas stated the girl who cooked the meal was separated from her husband however police had been advised their relationship was amicable. Her youngsters have been additionally at house throughout the lunch however didn’t eat the identical meal, police stated.
Detectives searched the girl’s house on Saturday and took a number of objects. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that police have been additionally conducting forensic assessments on a meals dehydrator that they had discovered at a close-by landfill to see if it was linked to the case.
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