CNN Lines Up ‘Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders’ For Streaming Service
EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s mushroom poisoning trials transfixed the world in 2023, and two years on CNN is returning to the story.
Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders is the latest CNN Original Series and will run as a streaming exclusive, following a deal with Fifth Season. The series is set to run in Australia, where it was originally commissioned, on streamer Stan on December 7.
The three-part series is a deep dive into the killings, produced by Dreamchaser and Fifth Season. The show will debut on Friday, December 19 for CNN’s streaming subscribers via CNN.com and CNN connected TV and mobile apps.
The wild story comes from the quiet hills of Gippsland, Victoria, in Australia, where a family lunch turned fatal when a homemade beef wellington left three people dead and one clinging to life. At the center of the storm was Erin Patterson, a suburban mother thrust into an international media frenzy, accused and later convicted of orchestrating the crime.
The doc series provides testimony from journalists, detectives and members of the tight-knit Australian community where the tragedy unfolded. It looks into the twisting investigation, the explosive courtroom moments that redefined the case, and the obsessive media coverage that propelled the story to global notoriety.
Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders is directed and produced by Gil Marsden (United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper) and executive produced by Monique Keller, Carl Fennessy, and Billy Russell for Dreamchaser; Mary Lisio, Elissa Johnson, and Ariel Richter for Fifth Season, together with Alicia Brown and Cailah Scobie for Stan. Fifth Season has international distribution.
In Australia, it is known as Revealed: Death Cap Murders, and is part of the Revealed doc series. We first revealed news of the show as part of Stan’s 2025 slate back in February.
Patterson, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the triple murder and attempted murder, has captivated audiences around the world. In Australia, pubcaster the ABC is being turned into a scripted series, Toxic, which we first told you about in July.
