Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 #13 *Arrest*

[katydid23]

11:08

Questions over what Patterson told doctors about mushrooms​

Patterson (pictured) agreed she told child services officer Dr Katrina Cripps she used dried mushrooms which were 'quite pungent'.
Dr Rogers then reminded Patterson of the evidence of fungi expert Dr Tom May who said dried death caps had an 'unpleasant' smell.
'I don't remember them being unpleasant,' Patterson said before admitting they had a 'strong smell'.
Dr Rogers asked Patterson if she mentioned using dried mushrooms to her lunch guests.
Patterson said there was no discussion about the ingredients of the meal.
Patterson denied she told Dr Chris Webster at Leongatha hospital about dried mushrooms or an Asian grocer.
Patterson said the doctor was mistaken.
Patterson agreed she told her brother-in-law on July 31 that she bought the fresh sliced mushrooms from Woolworths and dried mushrooms from an Asian grocer in Oakleigh.
'Yeah I did (tell him those things),' Patterson said.

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Ok Erin, explain this please...Are you seriously saying Dr Webster never asked where you sourced the mushrooms?

He has 4 dying patients and he isn't urgently trying to find out the source of their illness?

 

[L_B]

If they didn't have an unpleasant smell, why didn't she go ahead and use them as she had planned, in the Pasta Carbonara? I think, IIRC, she said they had a funny, pungent smell....that seems like the same thing as unpleasant to me.

Plus, it came out in earlier testimony, that the dried Asian funny smelling mushrooms were originally put in a kitchen cabinet in her old house. And they were eventually moved to her new house.

You have to really want something if you bother taking it with you in a move. I can't imagine packing up a Tupperware full of pungent funny smelling dried mushrooms to take to my new house.

So she claimed that "unpleasant" doesn't mean strong smell, but this article says she said they did have a strong smell to a witness.

But I am pretty sure Erin has said Ms Cripps is a liar liar pants on fire so....

One juror dismissed, 14 remain in mushroom murder trial

A juror has been discharged from the Erin Patterson trial, after reports emerged that he had been discussing the case with family and friends.

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"She read that the ones she got from the Asian grocer would add a nice flavour to the beef Wellington," Ms Cripps testified.

Ms Cripps said Ms Patterson was unable to find any bank records detailing the Asian grocer purchase, and told her it might have been paid for with cash around April 2023.

Ms Patterson described the mushrooms from the Asian grocers as being in packaging that couldn't be re-sealed and that it had a white label, Ms Cripps said.

"She said she was going to use them in a carbonara but when she opened them they had a very strong smell. She put them in a Tupperware container," Ms Cripps said.

 

[JBowie]

The jury was then asked to leave the room.

Wow, that's happened 3 or 4 times today, without any context given. I wish the reporter would say what triggered the removals!

 

[JennieM]

3m ago
Rogers says Patterson told the jury she told her daughter about the lunch beforehand, but her daughter was excited about going to the movies with her brother and his friend.

Rogers says in pre-recorded video evidence, Patterson’s daughter recalled her mother saying she wanted to talk about “adult stuff” with the lunch guests and the children would go to the movies.

Patterson says this is not what she told her daughter. Patterson also rejects her son’s evidence that his mother said she only wanted adults at the lunch.

Rogers suggests Patterson’s evidence her daughter wanted to see a movie is a lie, and she didn’t want them near what she was planning to serve her lunch guests.

Patterson rejects this.

 

[JennieM]

now
The court has adjourned for the day.

Patterson’s cross-examination will continue tomorrow from 10.30am.

 

[JBowie]

Is she now admitting she lied to the doctor while he was trying to figure out how to save his dying patients?

I submit that she's so tied up in lies that she doesn't know what she's admitting to, or not.

 

[L_B]

Why would she risk spoiling her expensive steak with mushrooms that have a pungent smell, and ruining a dish like beef wellington that is so difficult to make?

remember it was bland, this would have taken the flavour up a notch!

 

[L_B]

Wow, that's happened 3 or 4 times today, without any context given. I wish the reporter would say what triggered the removals!

I think when there is an objection to a question/line of questioning, but then they can't report it I guess cos it's up for debate if the jury should hear or not?

 

[loreet]

Nobody can send her books in there...

Totally irrelevant to EP’s guilt or innocence but generally I think imprisoned individuals are allowed to receive books in prisons — both ordered on their own and also sent from their family and friends ‘outside.’

 

[JennieM]

remember it was bland, this would have taken the flavour up a notch!

Yes, but if the mushrooms were too pungent they could ruin her beef wellington, that’s a lot of wasted money and risking ruining a special meal she went in so much effort to make.

 

[JBowie]

I think when there is an objection to a question/line of questioning, but then they can't report it I guess cos it's up for debate if the jury should hear or not?

The jury is present when the event occurs, so no secret there. Of course they cannot hear what is then discussed, but IMO we should be told who did what to cause these interruptions.

 

[L_B]

Yes, but if the mushrooms were too pungent they could ruin her beef wellington, that’s a lot of wasted money and risking ruining a special meal she went in so much effort to make.

I don't think anyone would disagree, however I think a lot of us suspect the asian mushrooms didn't exist in the first place.

 

[Shortfusepsb]

Totally irrelevant to EP’s guilt or innocence but generally I think imprisoned individuals are allowed to receive books in prisons — both ordered on their own and also sent from their family and friends ‘outside.’

Thats not my current experience.

 

[JennieM]

I don't think anyone would disagree, however I think a lot of us suspect the asian mushrooms didn't exist in the first place.

Agree with you but it shows that however you look at it, she seems to be lying, her argument is not believable.

 

[JBowie]

Totally irrelevant to EP’s guilt or innocence but generally I think imprisoned individuals are allowed to receive books in prisons — both ordered on their own and also sent from their family and friends ‘outside.’

That may depend on various factors such as local rules and whether the prisoner is on remand or serving a sentence.

 

[loreet]

Thats not my current experience.

I’m sorry I’m tired. I should have said In US prisons it’s a thing to send and receive books. There are lists of prohibited materials though, long lists. Poisonous mushroom books would be prohibited. Electrical manuals, and other things that make a lot of sense to disallow. But some of the items on prohibited lists can be baffling.

 

[Old Soul]

Before Erin entered the witness box in this trial, I thought there was a very small possibility a juror might have reasonable doubt……

but I think Erin has colossally screwed any chance of this in so many different ways….her behaviour, the lies built onto lies that are then contradicted by other lies, her flat denial of other witnesses’ statements, her convenient lapses in memory….it feels like she’s just adding more fuel to the garbage fire she has made of her defence.

Everyday she seems to just make it worse for herself…..her lack of credibility is “mushrooming” out of control!

IMO

 

[MrJ]

Significant that the prosecution got the clinic to communicate with them and share their records!

 

[Old Soul]

If they didn't have an unpleasant smell, why didn't she go ahead and use them as she had planned, in the Pasta Carbonara? I think, IIRC, she said they had a funny, pungent smell....that seems like the same thing as unpleasant to me.

Plus, it came out in earlier testimony, that the dried Asian funny smelling mushrooms were originally put in a kitchen cabinet in her old house. And they were eventually moved to her new house.

You have to really want something if you bother taking it with you in a move. I can't imagine packing up a Tupperware full of pungent funny smelling dried mushrooms to take to my new house.

And then today we heard that Erin claims she dehydrated the already dehydrated smelly mushrooms to make them crispy

 

[lazymaiden07]

Before Erin entered the witness box in this trial, I thought there was a very small possibility a juror might have reasonable doubt……

but I think Erin has colossally screwed any chance of this in so many different ways….her behaviour, the lies built onto lies that are then contradicted by other lies, her flat denial of other witnesses’ statements, her convenient lapses in memory….it feels like she’s just adding more fuel to the garbage fire she has made of her defence.

Everyday she seems to just make it worse for herself…..her lack of credibility is “mushrooming” out of control!

IMO

I'm keen to hear what others think on this one too....IMO, I don't see how there is any reasonable doubt as to what occurred. However, wondering if others see things a little bit differently?