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A woman accused of killing her two adult children years apart has had a remaining murder charge dropped.
Maree Mavis Crabtree, 59, was found not guilty of murdering her 26-year-old son Jonathan with an overdose of prescription painkillers served in a fruit smoothie on July 19, 2017.
The charge against Crabtree for the alleged murder of her 18-year-old daughter Erin in 2012 was on Thursday dropped during a review of the case in Brisbane Supreme Court.
At trial regarding her son's death, prosecutors alleged Crabtree killed Jonathan by concealing drugs in his fruit smoothie.
Crabtree had pleaded not guilty to murdering him at the family's Maudsland home north of the Gold Coast and to making a fraudulent $125,000 insurance claim on his superannuation.
She also denied attempting to murder Jonathan in January 2017.
A jury in June found her not guilty of all charges relating to Jonathan after deliberating for nearly two-and-a-half days.
The proceedings on charges relating to her daughter Erin had been put on hold for the murder trial over Jonathan's death.
Maree Crabtree (pictured) has been found not guilty of killing both her son Jonathan and her daughter Erin
Maree (left) accused of killing Jonathon (right) with a drug-spiked smoothie before making a $125,000 insurance claim however the jury found her not guilty on all counts
The charge against Crabtree for the alleged murder of her 18-year-old daughter Erin (pictured) in 2012 was dropped on Thursday
Crabtree was not present for the Supreme Court review on Thursday when the murder charge was dropped.
She was granted bail and released from custody in February 2024.
A judge had questioned the strength of the prosecution case after an earlier attempt to convict her over Jonathan’s death ended in a mistrial.
Crabtree had spent six years on remand at that point.
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