The mysterious mushroom deaths gripping the nation - a podcast by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Last week, a family sat down for a lunch in a small town in Victoria’s south-east. But that lunch would soon turn into a tragedy. 

Within a week, three of those people would be dead - and one would be in hospital in critical condition. All of them suffered symptoms consistent with the ingestion of death cap mushrooms.

Today, crime reporter Marta Pascual Juanola joins me to discuss the mushroom poisoning case gripping the nation. 

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