For 10 weeks, reporter Jarrod Whittaker witnessed the town of Morwell swell with media, money, and relentless curiosity, and from inside the courtroom he had a clear view of Erin Patterson as the jury delivered its verdict in the mushroom murder trial's final,

The jury in the Supreme Court trial in Victoria state returned a verdict after six days of deliberations, following a nine-week trial that gripped Australia.

In what is being called Australia’s ’trial of the century’, Erin Patterson was found guilty of murdering her estranged husband’s parents and aunt by spiking their sumptuous lunch with death cap mushrooms in 2023.