EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s mushroom poisoning trials transfixed the world in 2023, and two years on NCS is returning to the story.
Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders is the most recent NCS Original Series and can run as a streaming unique, following a cope with Fifth Season. The sequence is about to run in Australia, the place it was initially commissioned, on streamer Stan on December 7.
The three-part sequence is a deep dive into the killings, produced by Dreamchaser and Fifth Season. The present will debut on Friday, December 19 for NCS’s streaming subscribers by way of NCS.com and NCS linked TV and cell apps.
The wild story comes from the quiet hills of Gippsland, Victoria, in Australia, the place a household lunch turned deadly when a selfmade beef wellington left three individuals useless and one clinging to life. At the middle of the storm was Erin Patterson, a suburban mom thrust into a world media frenzy, accused and later convicted of orchestrating the crime.
The doc sequence gives testimony from journalists, detectives and members of the tight-knit Australian neighborhood the place the tragedy unfolded. It seems into the twisting investigation, the explosive courtroom moments that redefined the case, and the obsessive media protection that propelled the story to world notoriety.
Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders is directed and produced by Gil Marsden (United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper) and govt produced by Monique Keller, Carl Fennessy, and Billy Russell for Dreamchaser; Mary Lisio, Elissa Johnson, and Ariel Richter for Fifth Season, along with Alicia Brown and Cailah Scobie for Stan. Fifth Season has worldwide distribution.
In Australia, it is named Revealed: Death Cap Murders, and is a part of the Revealed doc sequence. We first revealed news of the show as a part of Stan’s 2025 slate again in February.
Patterson, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the triple homicide and tried homicide, has captivated audiences world wide. In Australia, pubcaster the ABC is being turned into a scripted series, Toxic, which we first informed you about in July.