Australian woman Erin Patterson is convicted of 3 murders for poisoning her in-laws with mushrooms
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. Patterson faces life in prison and will be sentenced later, but a date for the hearing hasn't yet been scheduled.
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