The kindergarten’s cooks used inedible pigments to decorate buns and cakes, the authorities said. Eight school officials and employees were detained.

Three people died in 2023 after eating beef Wellington made by Erin Patterson, whose subsequent trial gripped the country.

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Paul VanDuyne Jr. and Andrea Whitaker placed cyanide, homemade poisons and other substances in water bottles and cars belonging to two women he had briefly dated, the authorities said.

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