This is the post to which you replied and I wrote it and there is nothing in that post implying Erin was throwing her daughter under a bus.
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But no real proof what she handed over was the actual food she fed the people who became sick. More likely untainted food she fed herself.[bbm]
As her guests fell critically ill, Ms Patterson said she was contacted by the Department of Health and asked what might have caused the violent reaction to the meal.
She said she preserved what was left of the lunch and gave it to hospital toxicologists for examination. She said she told investigators from the department where she had bought the mushrooms – although was unable to identify the specific shop in Melbourne where she bought the dried fungi.
Ms Patterson said officials from the Department later sent her photographs of packs of mushrooms with hand-written labels, similar to those she described to them.
I would guess by now those toxicologists would have determined the toxin involved.
She says that she gave leftovers (scraped of mushrooms) to her children.
It's reported elsewhere that she also gave samples to police. I'm now wondering how much of the original meal was left over.
Woman who cooked suspected poisoned meal details where she bought mushrooms
The woman who cooked a meal that is believed to have contained poisonous mushrooms and led to the deaths of three people gives a lengthy written statement to police detailing her account of what happened, and revealing she was hospitalised after the incident.www.abc.net.au
Exactly, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, or whatever the saying is. Also, if she presented to hospital feeling unwell as she claimed to have, then it would have to be from something all 5 of them consumed, not something the 4 guests ate (or were exposed to) before or after the lunch. To me, that puts any discussion of what the 4 of them may have consumed outside of the lunch to bed. Moo
It comes in all shapes and sizes.
BBM. This part makes no sense. I don't know how old the children are, but if they're old enough to go to the movies without parental supervision (did they drive, or is the cinema within walking distance?), they're old enough to scrape off their own mushrooms. Plus, I've only seen this dish in photos, and whether it was made as one giant piece or in individual pies, you'd really have to make a mess deconstructing it to remove the mushrooms. And if the poison is that strong, wouldn't it sort of get through the entire dish? Have the police spoken with the children? (I'm having trouble believing anything E has said, but this part really stands out for me.)
Here: "But this wasn’t the first time Erin’s cooking allegedly made someone sick.
Her ex-husband, Simon Patterson reportedly spending 16 days in an induced coma with a mysterious gut illness last year after eating food served by her.
“Simon suspected he had been poisoned by Erin,” a source told The Herald Sun. “There were times he had felt … a bit off and it coincided when he spent time with her.”
After recovering, Simon writing about his puzzling May 2022 ailment on Facebook.
“I collapsed at home, then was in an induced coma for 16 days through which I had three emergency operations mainly on my small intestine, plus an additional planned operation,” he reportedly wrote. “My family were asked to come and say goodbye to me twice, as I was not expected to live.”
Patterson suspected his unforeseen illness had been linked to eating nightshades, a family of plants that includes tomatoes, potatoes and peppers.
All nightshade vegetables contain alkaloids like solanine, a chemical that can be toxic in high concentrations.
Investigators say Simon and Erin had separated amicably after living in separate homes for years."
Source:
Inside the mushroom-lunch death mystery that’s gripping Australia
An alleged poisoning is captivating Australia, where authorities suspect Erin Patterson intentionally laced a lunch of mushrooms and beef Wellington for her former in-laws, killing three and sicken…nypost.com
ETA it could have been belladonna JMO
It would be interesting to look at the list of Simon's symptoms. We're his pupils dilated?
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they're not really similar in appearance though but thank you for thinking outside the box.
Is that a fact?
