Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023

[Jess M.]

Yep - still married, then everything goes to spouse.. in Vic and NSW anyway

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[JBowie]

Someone posted here earlier that there are 4 Asian grocery stores in Mount Waverley. Considering it was just 3 months ago that she allegedly bought the mushrooms and also that Mount Waverley isn't that big a place, you would think that she'd remember where the shop was...

Given that she's apparently produced some packaging with handwritten labeling on it, then it won't take a rocket scientist to determine which store it is/was.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Maybe there is someone who doesn't want Erin and Simon getting back together...

Yeah, Simon.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Months previously.

Months later I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of the little coffee shop I went into in Sydney.

It wasn't one I'd been to before, and to tell the truth, remembering the name of one of the many coffee shops I wandered into wasn't a priority.

I also couldn't tell you the name of some of the asian groceries stores I randomly went into on one of my trips.

I don't find this hard to believe at all.

She sounds just like me

I agree completely. I think criticizing this detail is a real stretch.

 

[JBowie]

I agree completely. I think criticizing this detail is a real stretch.

IMO there's definitely some stretching occurring, and I think it relates to the truth.

EP has already walked back a bunch of her previous statements.

 

[Lord Peter Flimsy]

Given that she's apparently produced some packaging with handwritten labeling on it, then it won't take a rocket scientist to determine which store it is/was.

Does it say much about her? Blame it on the ‘foreigners’ and some unknown store who would sell Death cap mushrooms for cooking (as you do). I’m surprised half of Mt Waverley isn’t dead by now!

 

[Jess M.]

For those of you who aren't familiar with Mount Waverley, I used to work there. It's a very small shopping precinct. Mainly a shopping square. <modsnip - opinion stated as fact>

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Yeah, Simon.

Just realised I should have said someone "else"

IMO

 

[kittythehare]

Mushroom cook says she bought fungi from Asian grocer and her children ate the lunch leftovers

Erin Patterson told police she, too, was sick from the beef Wellington lunch that police suspect killed her former in-laws and another relative.

www.watoday.com.au

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[JBowie]

Does it say much about her? Blame it on the ‘foreigners’ and some unknown store who would sell Death cap mushrooms for cooking (as you do). I’m surprised half of Mt Waverley isn’t dead by now!

Maybe she's aware of this (bbm):

In 2022, China CDC investigated 482 mushroom poisoning incidents involving 1,332 patients and 28 deaths, with a total case fatality rate of 2.1%. The number of cases per incident ranged from 1 to 28, with an average of 2. A total of 13 incidents involved more than 10 patients. Of these cases, 73 patients from 23 incidents ate poisonous mushrooms purchased from markets

Mushroom Poisoning Outbreaks — China, 2022

Mushroom poisoning is one of the most serious food safety issues in China. By the end of 2021, over 520 poisonous mushrooms had been discovered in China. The Southwest region of China was the most severely affected. Mushroom poisonings mainly concentrated ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Jess M.]

I just watched a recent 7 News video on FB and relatives of the victims of the poisoning are saying that Erin Patterson's latest statement to the media has several inconsistencies to what they know...

 

[Black-Cat]

While waiting for the toxicology report to return from the US, they will be quietly listening to her conversations and browsing her search history…. It shouldn’t take long IMO

 

[Jess M.]

So Erin is saying that her lunch guests chose their own plate and she took the remaining one. I find this very hard to believe. It was a luncheon, not a smorgasbord.

 

[silvercrown]

Given that she's apparently produced some packaging with handwritten labeling on it, then it won't take a rocket scientist to determine which store it is/was.

I took the article to mean she confirmed samples from the Asian grocer were the same as she bought 3 months prior. Not necessarily that she still had the packaging and it matched what was sold at the grocer. In other words ‘yeah, that’s what my packaging looked like’.

 

[silvercrown]

If she is guilty, I am absolutely perplexed she thought she would be able to pull this off.

 

[Jess M.]

Bombshell claims as woman at centre of fatal mushroom lunch ‘clears the record’

Erin Patterson has given her first detailed account of what transpired before and after the fatal lunch.

7news.com.au

 

[Black-Cat]

Let’s be real, who’s driving to Melbourne to buy mushrooms?????? For a beef Wellington IMO

 

[boomburger]

Its crazy how all the suspicion could have been avoided had she been smart enough to just say she picked them damn mushrooms herself, and just kept the dehydrator. Whether she's guilty or innocent. She's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

 

[Black-Cat]

Its crazy how all the suspicion could have been avoided had she been smart enough to just say she picked them damn mushrooms herself. Whether she's guilty or innocent. She's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Agreed

 

[silvercrown]

Bombshell claims as woman at centre of fatal mushroom lunch ‘clears the record’

Erin Patterson has given her first detailed account of what transpired before and after the fatal lunch.

7news.com.au

Personally I think making a statement was the right thing to do, if she is innocent. However. You’d think her new legal representation would have written her new statement to include the actual name of the ‘liver protective drug’. It just sounds so… carelessly put together.