I'm sure she's perfectly intelligent enough to comprehend that in today's world you can't just magically say you purchased poison mushrooms somewhere with no proof, no evidence, etc - and also - whilst being simultaneously well known for foraging mushrooms and not be the key suspect.
Unless - someone else did her shopping for her and switched out the mushrooms for poisonous ones. Or there's a malicious tamperer who messed with the store product as a one off and it so happens the person who purchased them was also a forager and had a dehydrator.
It is possible someone targeted the whole household and she got lucky IMO but that would hardly be likely by way of a product tampering situation.
Or there's a malicious tamperer who messed with the store product as a one off and it so happens the person who purchased them was also a forager and had a dehydrator.
The odds are surely near infinitum of those circumstances occurring. We haven't discussed what segment of the population in the area forages for mushrooms or else I missed it. How many of that segment of foragers also dehydrates mushrooms? Simon enjoyed foragering, too.
I recall towards the end of the first year after Libby and Abby were murdered in Delphi, Indiana, Abby's mom invited Libby's grandparents, Becky and Mike Patty, over for a dish of foraged mushrooms. A man foraging in Indiana found a small boy's body in a suitcase.
APR 27, 2022 Washington County, Indiana - Cairo found in a suitcase
Earlier in April, another forager found the body of 40-year-old Crystal Vanlue while hunting in the wooded area of Ray Clinton Park in Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Mushroom Hunter Stumbles Upon Boy's Corpse on Easter Weekend: Police
OCT 27, 2022 Louisville, Kentucky
The day before Easter Sunday, Jeffrey Meredith was foraging for mushrooms in the woods near his Washington County home when he found a suitcase and inside, the remains of a little boy.
On Wednesday, Indiana State Police identified the child as 5-year-old Cairo Jordan of Atlanta.
Indiana man who found the body of a child in a suitcase now finds comfort in learning his name