Gail Patterson, Don Patterson and Heather Wilkinson were murdered.
This is how media systematically erased them while turning their killer into some kind of grotesque food icon.
From the moment we knew a woman was suspected of murdering Heather, Gail and Don using mushrooms, the media across the globe turned this story into a farcical money-making machine.
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