Recent content by katydid23

Correct, but even AFTER she was told by the doctor on Monday, that they suspected mushroom poisoning, Erin did not believe it was mushrooms that were the cause. That was her testimony on the stand----she said she thought that was an incorrect diagnosis. And if she is telling the truth about...

Sure thing Erin, they didn't tell you it was life threatening, but your 4 lunch guests are in intensive care in critical condition, the doctors begged you to stay in the hospital for emergency treatment and they sent Simon to go pick up your kids and rush them in for testing. But they never...

That's true. If EP had foraged for mushrooms and used them in the dish, and proudly said these delicious mushroom were picked by me last spring, it would have been a different story. As soon as they both began to get very sick on Saturday night they probably would have gone right to the...

Yes, ^^^that's what I am wondering. Did powdering the Death Caps intensify their impact. I think it is possible because they did not have pieces of mushroom to digest before the toxins were delivered. I think the toxins being in powdered form would speed up the delivery of the poison into the...

Yes, and that's why it looked so suspicious. Her kids ate some of the same meal that put 4 people into intensive care unit of the hospital. Surely, if EP had no idea what harmed them, she would be very worried about her kid's safety. Erin said she didn't believe it was mushrooms that made...

YUP. Apparently that is what she said in response to Dr R, when she was confronting EP about the number of steaks, etc. And what the leftovers were. She responded by saying ' I told my kids they were leftovers but I never said lunch. I hope the jury picked up on that.

I think it will be highlighted in the closing statement. lol

I agree. Also, I think if the jury has listened closely they have heard her changing stories or details midstream. She had repeatedly said that she scraped the mushrooms off and fed her children the leftover meat. And then at the end of her 5 day testimony she suddenly says " I told the...

' A jury of one's peers' is a legal promise. Is that a good thing anymore? lol

Why did she repeatedly say that she scraped the mushrooms off the meat so the kids were fine? Doesn't that mean she was trying to convince others that she fed her kids leftovers from the lunch?

Yes. And using the 'traumas of heroin addiction' as a high school student as some kind of an excuse is a big stretch. He was not a neglected orphan living on the streets. He had an intact middle class household and IMO, choosing heroin was a personal choice on his part---it was not a life...

The thing about mitigation witnesses in a quadruple murder case is all they can hope to do is keep him out of the line of the firing squad. And that is a big thing, for sure. But it would then end up being LWOP. He'd be locked up for the rest of his life. So I kind of don't care that much...

Did you hear Erin's comments on the stand, when Dr Rogers mentioned this conversation with Simon? Erin said 'she was put off' by Simon's tone of voice---he was saying it very sarcastically.

That happens all the time with serial rapists, robbers or offenders. If they have attacked many victims, a few of the cases may be weaker than others due to the circumstances. The circumstances of Letby's cases were in her favour most of the time. Newborns are totally vulnerable. They cannot...

Yes, the act of lying, in itself, does not make one guilty of murder. It is the context of the lies that can tell a story, imo. In this case, the lies she told to the victims had an explicit purpose, according to her. She told us that she told the lies about having upcoming cancer treatments...