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Kinda wild how people that know their mushrooms could just go into the woods and get a highly effective poison. I'm surprised mushroom murders aren't more common
I feel like the difficulty in poisoning someone is not obtaining the poison in the first place but the delivery and getting away with it
Hmm this person knew the victim, had a motive, and was really into mycology, and the autopsy had signs of poisoning from a rare mushroom…
Good deniability though.
Be publicly into micology and commonly collect mushrooms to cook when you have guests over.
Only issue would be to somehow plausably not poison yourself to death. Maybe taking little enough you survive.
And take care you aren't quite known as fully competent, spread the air of knowledge without any solid proof or association.
I'll look like you were a sham and amateur overestimating themselves.
Or just accidentally run them over with a car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leongatha_mushroom_murders
Shitty job.
She lied, behaved irrationally, couldn't get her story straight ahead of time, scenario too implausible.
You gotta admit fault, hate yourself for killing everyone. Buying poisonous mushrooms is implausible, admit you got them yourself right away, admit accidentally killing them. Swear to never touch mushrooms again.
And find a better excuse for not poisoning yourself, noone individually prepares mushroom sauce per person.
I guess manslaughter does have a smaller sentence than murder 1
I typically don't broadcast my hobbies and my friends wouldn't speak with the police as a general police
I mean, anyone reading this thread right now has enough information to know that this thing is deadly, so you don’t need to be into mycology to find a way to weaponize it since it can easily be mistaken as edible.
Could always shoot a ricin dart from an umbrella gun. 🤷♂️
Just 3d print it, I guess.
Here I made you some mushroom pasta!
There was that case in Australia last year, the poisoner just did a really bad job at covering her tracks. There probably are intelligent people able to get away with it that we don't hear about. It's crazy.
It was wild reading that as it happened. "Oh no, only the people I invited were poisoned! I'm so lucky to be alive!" Homie. That's suspicious as hell.
Didn't she also leave a book of poisonous mushrooms in her house or something. Like not even hidden away just on a table somewhere.
She might have! It just kept coming out with more and more suspicious stuff lmao
From what I remember, she had it in her browsing history and also had a dehydrator that she bought specially to prep the mushrooms that she did a bad job of disposing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx554n1x0wo
I mean, you can also just walk into a hardware store. Or the cleaning isle of your grocery store.
Yeah, but with a mushroom there is a natural explanation or may not be as obvious as "someone fed this guy bleach".
People will eat a mushroom pizza if you give it to them
Yeah but usually unless the person is getting into mushroom picking the cops tend to suspect it's the person in their life that goes mushroom picking
You could just not tell them.
Yet another reason I won't eat mushrooms. Thanks for the added explanation I can give!
This would kill me
I'm probably in the minority on this particular post. But this would NOT kill me.
Ew mushrooms. I'd pick them all off and have a pile of poison on my plate's edge.
Assuming nothing leached out.
I don't fully understand my hatred, but mushrooms do not belong in food. My only exception so far, and I'll try most things once, is wood ear mushrooms, which give me seaweed vibes and are just sort of chewy/crunchy.
Well I'm already in a murderous mood, it's probably best I talk to as fewer people as possible.
Where is the style in that? Where is the panache?
Everybody is going to remember the mushroom murderer, nobody is going to remember some bleach boy.
You would need to know how to id a destroying Angel and then somehow put in someones food without them immediately identified as suspicious. Also it causes specific symptoms too, and likely would ask questions of a strange mushroom
Back in Rome, Amanita caesarea was a delicacy, but it can be confused with Death cap, or Amanita phalloides. It's possible Nero became Emperor because Agrippina poisoned Claudius with Death caps.
Maybe they are and we just don't know it because they're so effective
There was some woman that tried it
they're not a reliable choice.
There are some that only cause death up to two weeks after ingestion. So just make some soup ig