Leongatha Mushroom Deaths - VIC *Erin Patterson charged with 3 counts of murder & 2 attempts

[ep2018]

Police test food dehydrator found at tip after deadly mushroom meal

Tests are being done to see if the appliance is linked to the deaths of three people who ate poisonous mushrooms.

www.theage.com.au

 

[BFew]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/locals-trying-to-fathom-what-lies-behind-fatal-mushroom-poisonings/news-story/d8507cb665b54f1cad580abbdf234144

'What lies beneath: mushroom poisoning mystery divides towns'​

'1 hour ago
...
The South Gippsland Sentinel-Times splashed with the deaths on Tuesday, running on page three a photograph from a real estate website showing where Ms Patterson’s new house was built. The block of land went for $260,000 and among the promotional photos, it reported, was a cluster of brightly coloured mushrooms on the property.'

https://www.sgst.com.au/ (registration to get a digital version of the paper is free)
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'Police confirm daughter-in-law cooked ‘mushroom’ meal'

 

[ep2018]

(tin foil hat) If this was indeed a purposeful poisoning, I wonder if the dehydrator was used to dehydrate death cap mushrooms and then they were turned into powder, and then mixed into a sauce of some kind whilst real, legit, store bought mushrooms were served as a kind of decoy in the hope that a supermarket would cop the blame for the deaths, as though their mushrooms were toxic? If so she obviously didn't give herself any of the tainted sauce but she might have eaten some of the decoy mushrooms hence the police and media confusion that seems to indicate that the suspect had eaten the mushrooms too?

 

[Kurve]

Mystery stomach illness last year. Through the mushroom season.

It has now emerged that Ms Patterson's former partner Simon spent 21 days in intensive care after collapsing at his home in May 2022.

Ex-husband of woman who cooked lethal mushrooms nearly died last year

Erin Patterson, 48, invited her former in-laws, Gail and Don Patterson, Gail's sister and her husband, Heather and Ian Wilkinson, for lunch at her Leongatha home, in Victoria's Gippsland.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[BFew]

We really need to bring Miss Jane Marple out of retirement to solve this one.

 

[Kurve]

Apologies if the thread reads a bit clunky, we had two open on the topic. I've merged them.

Thanks.

 

[outabounds]

I believe its only a matter of time before she is charged with 3 counts of Fungicide.

 

[Big_Birdy]

I believe its only a matter of time before she is charged with 3 counts of Fungicide.

 

[Kurve]

Police must have tracked her rubbish, they found the food dehydrator at the tip.

Forensic tests on a food dehydrator found at a Gippsland tip in Victoria are being done to see if it is linked to the deaths of three people who ate poisonous mushrooms.

Police test food dehydrator found at tip after deadly mushroom meal

Tests are being done to see if the appliance is linked to the deaths of three people who ate poisonous mushrooms.

www.theage.com.au

 

[No Quarter]

I find this one pretty interesting to read about.

Then when you hear about the mystery illness to the ex husband last year that nearly killed him... plenty of reasons to be acting suspicious on this lady

 

[ep2018]

Mushroom poisoning twist: Lunch guest pulled out 'at the last minute'

The ex-husband of a woman who hosted a poisonous lunch where four people fell ill - three of whom have since died - had been invited to the deadly lunch.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[No Quarter]

All of a sudden there'll be some sort of financial rift that gets uncovered, disputing over something to do with the separation or something like that and motive will appear

 

[daniologist]

Why is the location of Leongatha familiar somehow? Has something else happened there recently?

 

[faible]

Why is the location of Leongatha familiar somehow? Has something else happened there recently?

AFL great Dyson Heppell is from there

 

[faible]

I find this one pretty interesting to read about.

Then when you hear about the mystery illness to the ex husband last year that nearly killed him... plenty of reasons to be acting suspicious on this lady

Mushroom poisoning twist: Lunch guest pulled out 'at the last minute'

The ex-husband of a woman who hosted a poisonous lunch where four people fell ill - three of whom have since died - had been invited to the deadly lunch.

www.dailymail.co.uk

These two combined suddenly gets pretty sketchy.

Ex had a severe mystery stomach illness last year, is invited to a lunch along with his parents, all the adult attendees except the chef are now dead or in intensive care.

 

[No Quarter]

These two combined suddenly gets pretty sketchy.

Ex had a severe mystery stomach illness last year, is invited to a lunch along with his parents, all the adult attendees except the chef are now dead or in intensive care.

There simply has to be more to it!

 

[faible]

There simply has to be more to it!

If it's an accident it's a bloody weird one.

 

[JackNah_8]

If it's an accident it's a bloody weird one.

Very weird accident!

Ex husband was lucky enough to escape

 

[windyhill]

Clearly did it. Silly cow.

 

[NonPhixion]

The dehydrator is very weird. Unless there is some extraordinary explanation this lady seems guilty as anything

 

[ep2018]

Police interview bombshell in case of deadly mushroom lunch

The woman who served a deadly lunch to her former parents in law made a bombshell claim in her first police interview, 7NEWS can reveal.

7news.com.au

Apparently she told police she bought the mushrooms at the shops

 

[Gavin Excell]

Police interview bombshell in case of deadly mushroom lunch

The woman who served a deadly lunch to her former parents in law made a bombshell claim in her first police interview, 7NEWS can reveal.

7news.com.au

Apparently she told police she bought the mushrooms at the shops

This could hang her (so to speak )
This should be easy enough to verify

 

[Kurve]

This could hang her (so to speak )
This should be easy enough to verify

Unless someone's spiked the loose mushrooms at the shops with poisonous mushrooms. Doesn't really seem plausible though because I think someone would have noticed it.

We had people putting needles in to strawberries at one point.

 

[Kurve]

Someone spiking the mushrooms at the shop with poisonous ones doesn't explain why the cook and her two children avoided eating any of it.

 

[outabounds]

Police interview bombshell in case of deadly mushroom lunch

The woman who served a deadly lunch to her former parents in law made a bombshell claim in her first police interview, 7NEWS can reveal.

7news.com.au

Apparently she told police she bought the mushrooms at the shops

LOL, she is just dumb. Who would believe that. She could have got a bit more creative and said the kids were picking mushrooms and put them in the fridge and she used them without thinking twice about it.