When you are charged with killing multiple people hiding Flash cards appears a lot more sinister than regular Joe public simply doing it.
Mooo
I'm just really curious what the authorities thought could possibly be on those electronic devices that warranted bringing out special detector dogs. I would have thought this case would turn on other evidence, such as testimony to the state of EP's relationship with her ex and his family or proving how the victims ingested the mushrooms.
I suppose the most obvious answer is a potentially incriminating Google search. But aside from that I'm at a loss for what sort of data might be relevant to this case.
edit - Another possibility might be GPS and location data if the device was carried while foraging.
According to a friend of the family, she was an experienced forager and the family regularly picked mushrooms together.This might be an unpopular opinion, but I’m not convinced Ms Patterson was a mushroom forager.
Maybe it’s been a while since I’ve read about that point?
Thanks! Whilst you were writing your post, I edited my post.According to a friend of the family, she was an experienced forager and the family regularly picked mushrooms together.
Here's a link to one article, but it was widely reported in several publications.
Unless your ipad gets wet, then putting it in rice is said to be a way to get it or a phone working again.To me: buying a huge bag of semolina or rice and keeping ipads there is "hiding".
Look, I agree.
IMHO: It started to get serious when a number of people died after the lunch.
That’s more the issue, I would say, as opposed to whether nanna Jo likes to hide USBs in her underwear drawer or not.
It’s not a crime to be a scatterbrain or just a bit disorganised.
Moo
OK, "hiding" is questionable.
To me: buying a huge bag of semolina or rice and keeping ipads there is "hiding".
Buying a faux leather storage ottoman and keeping the ipads there is "storing"; same if you keep them stacked in a closet with clothes.
For LE, possibly, both would be hiding because they have to look for them.
For the tabloids, everything would be "hiding".
We shall see, @Salah11 !The fact it took dogs to find these hidden electronics points to it not simply being scattered brained imo
Highly Trained dogs had to find these items of interest.
Lets see at trial what was found on them![]()
Interestingly, I found this story on one of my local Philly stations, originally reported by the AP, which appears in the link below. Coincidence? Or did the reporter (or his editors) get wind of the latest Leongatha developments, and decide that desiccating dunked smartphones with rice was worthy of investigating, and perhaps debunking? (story only covers phones, but IMO the same concerns would apply to the iPad as well)Unless your ipad gets wet, then putting it in rice is said to be a way to get it or a phone working again.
The rice absorbs the moisture.
So what about using rice to dry your device? You may have heard that putting a phone in a bowl of rice will help draw out moisture. It’s been a tip that’s been out there for years.![]()
One Tech Tip: Don't use rice for your device. Here's how to dry out your smartphone
However your smartphone got wet, you now need to dry it. Apple recently put out an advisory that included a warning against using rice.apnews.com
You forgot the semolina.First people were claiming EP's electronics were found buried outside, not supposedly they were found in a bag of rice?
Where is this stuff coming from? I haven't seen it in any mainstream source.
I think we're just getting punchy because there's been no fresh news in a long time and there's some kind of game of telephone where speculation gets turned into fact.
You forgot the semolina.
I agree, the lack of information and news is driving imagination into all kinds of places. I haven’t seen anything in msm about evidence found buried outside or in bags of rice or semolina.
IMO it’s human nature to try to make sense out of an unimaginable crime. But we could probably use a clearer line between speculation and msm reports.
“Technology detector dog Georgia found one USB, a micro secure digital card and a sim card,” he told the hearing. “Technology detector dog Alma found a mobile phone, five iPads, a trail camera and secure digital card and a smartwatch.”
Kershaw said the items were not found during the officers’ initial searches.
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Alleged mushroom poisoning: five iPads and other devices sniffed out by police dogs at Erin Patterson’s Leongatha home
Australian federal police tell Senate estimates that the electronics were not found during initial searcheswww.theguardian.com
How do you know she didn’t eat the lunch?What I can't understand is, why didn't EP eat any of the "beef wellington lunch" she served her guests? Pretty convenient....
She did say that she ate the Wellington. She also said she went to hospital complaining of vomiting and diarrhea so she was given preventative medicine in case she had consumed poisonous mushrooms.What I can't understand is, why didn't EP eat any of the "beef wellington lunch" she served her guests? Pretty convenient....
Well EP claims she did but then she has claimed a lot of stuff unfortunately.How do you know she didn’t eat the lunch?
She did say that she ate the Wellington. She also said she went to hospital complaining of vomiting and diarrhea so she was given preventative medicine in case she had consumed poisonous mushrooms.
And miraculously she fed both her kids leftovers the next evening. They didn’t get sick because EP said they don’t like mushrooms so she scraped them off their portions. She didn’t say if she also ate leftovers.
A mushroom expert said it was unlikely as even juices tainted by the death caps would have poisoned them.
Here’s more information on the statement EP released regarding the lunch:
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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
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Five key pieces of evidence in mushroom lunch probe
Erin Patterson cooked a beef Wellington pie laced with deadly death cap mushrooms for a family lunch at her Leongatha home, in the state's southeast, on July 29.www.dailymail.co.uk
I worry about these children, to be honest.Well EP claims she did but then she has claimed a lot of stuff unfortunately.
Like how she claims she give it to her kids as left overs and yet they like her miraculously survived without any ill effects.
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Maybe she (or claimed at the time of the meal that she):What I can't understand is, why didn't EP eat any of the "beef wellington lunch" she served her guests? Pretty convenient....