Korumburra, Leongatha and Morwell.
These humble towns in Victoria's Gippsland region have been caught up in Erin Patterson's decision to serve up a deadly mushroom meal almost two years ago.
Over more than 10 weeks, Morwell has been in the spotlight after hosting a trial that has captivated much of the nation and the world.
It brought swarms of true-crime fanatics and media to hear blow-by-blow details about the death cap mushroom-laced lunch at Patterson's Leongatha home in July 2023.
A jury on Monday unanimously found Patterson guilty of intentionally poisoning her estranged husband's parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and his uncle and aunt Ian and Heather Wilkinson, who all lived in Korumburra.
Mr Wilkinson, the pastor at Korumburra Baptist Church, was the lone diner to survive after a lengthy hospital stay.
Toni Watson from Morwell Newsagency said she felt relief watching news of the verdicts.
"There was too many gaps (in Patterson's story)," she told AAP.
Towns like Snowtown in South Australia have become indelibly linked to murder cases.
Ms Watson, who has spent most of her life in Morwell, said she hoped the triple murder didn't taint the region's reputation.
The area has already suffered a degree of stigma from the murder of 14-month-old Jaidyn Leskie, whose body was found at Blue Rock Dam on New Year's Day 1998.
"The Jaidyn Leskie case happened in Moe, but it affects the whole Latrobe Valley," she said.
Along with a band of reporters, Laura Heller from Jay Dee's Cafe in Morwell made a mad dash for the courthouse after hearing the jury had reached a verdict following seven days of deliberations.
The historic nature of the moment wasn't lost on the 31-year-old.
"It will be talked about forever and it will always be remembered as one of the craziest stories in Australian history," she told AAP.
Ms Heller, a law student who worked at the cafe throughout the trial, said business had been booming in the traditionally quiet winter period.
The out-of-towners were a mixture of media, true crime nuts and "oldies" wanting to have a stickybeak.
"Not much goes on here, so we were all excited a lot of people from Australia and around the world were coming," Ms Heller said.
"I know that sounds crazy."
She spoke with a sense of melancholy about life returning to normal in the area, which has faced social and economic problems with the impending closure of job-creating coal-fired power stations.
"It's like summer camp coming to an end," she said.
South Gippsland Shire councillor Nathan Hersey said the scale of the media attention astounded locals.
"In all of this, there has been a lot of publicity. A lot of it's been negative, unfortunately, and it's gained traction in a pop-culture kind of way," he said.
"But I don't feel like that has reflected on the region. Anyone who knows Gippsland knows that it's a great place with a lot of fantastic people."
