Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 #14 *Arrest*

[MrJ]

Rather impatient for closing arguments, I must say. For both sides.

 

[Kemug]

It's almost unbelievable that Erin would take photos of deathcaps on her scales, in her kitchen!

Replying to myself - perhaps she was planning on putting together a photo album?

 

[Deleted member 363451]

Replying to myself - perhaps she was planning on putting together a photo album?

 

[Kemug]

This was a rage/revenge killing. That's the motive. Her payoff is them dead and Simon suffering, not for money. There's ample reason to believe that she hated his whole family based on her texts/posts. That wasn't just frustration. She was using cursing emojis and saying she was done with them.

She is likely still thinking "I showed them!" MOO

 

[JBowie]

Absolutely. It was never about the mushrooms, but rather the impact certain kinds can have.

I keep thinking of the avatar she chose for herself on Facebook.

 

[JBowie]

It all sounds so unbelievably cruel. I still scratch my head and think, if you hated him so much, why not just get a divorce and move on? She was so well off, two children, intelligent...could've done anything with her life. But I understand we are not dealing with someone who is thinking clearly, logically or rationally.
MOO

Revenge for slights (real or imagined) is high on narcissists' To Do lists.

 

[Kemug]

The court heard last week that Simon and Erin’s text messages from 2105-2023 were 40,000 pages in volume. That’s approximately 100 pages of texts, not individual texts, per week.

That’s a lot of contact for estranged people, imo.

She should have got a job. A shame she didn't have to. The people who made up the old adages knew what they were talking about - "The Devil finds work for idle hands to do."

 

[Bats]

4m ago05.31 BST


Erin Patterson didn’t think anyone had consumed death cap mushrooms when she left hospital

Prosecutor Nanette Rogers is questioning Patterson about her time at Leongatha hospital on 31 July 2023 - two days after the fateful beef wellington lunch.


Rogers says Patterson left Leongatha hospital because she knew she had not consumed death cap mushrooms.

“I didn’t think any of us had,” Patterson says.

In that extract, i don't think Erin is disputing the medical doctor's diagnosis of possible DC poisioning. I think she is saying to Dr Rogers that she didn't think anyone had consumed DC mushrooms (referring to the meal itself)

"I didn't think any of us had", is not in dispute of the doctor, it is in disbelief (at the time) that DCs could have been be in the meal.

Rogers: I suggest that your behaviour at Leongatha Hospital a few minutes after you presented there was because you knew that you had not consumed death cap mushrooms. Agree or disagree?

Patterson: I didn’t think any of us had

 

[Kemug]

That fits with using premade gravy from a package, but why did the kids say that the meal tasted so good? Because she put in more effort than usual?

Because she'd never made them a proper meal before?

 

[Kemug]

It's not just kids who love pasta and cheese!!

Sorry, macaroni cheese always makes me nauseous!

 

[Ellery84]

I keep thinking of the avatar she chose for herself on Facebook.

She’s not wrong.

 

[Tweet57]

I keep thinking of the avatar she chose for herself on Facebook.

Thought she would’ve have deactivated her FB account/s

 

[Kemug]

I have noticed that a lot of us on here seem to have only joined when this case became world famous. Welcome, and please stick around! I would be really interested to know (because that's what I do!) exactly how many. Could a Moderator please tell us, or is that not allowed? Or is it too difficult to calculate?

 

[JBowie]

Thought she would’ve have deactivated her FB account/s

I believe she did, but not before people captured her posts.

 

[BreakingNews]

OMG. I admire you all to have kept up many pages of comments even though the court adjourned on Thursday. I eagerly await the summing up of prosecution and defence and then the directions the judge gives to the jury. That is what will really matter in the end result. It's about the law. Not innocence nor guilt.

 

[Deleted member 363451]

I have noticed that a lot of us on here seem to have only joined when this case became world famous. Welcome, and please stick around! I would be really interested to know (because that's what I do!) exactly how many. Could a Moderator please tell us, or is that not allowed? Or is it too difficult to calculate?

I posted a couple of weeks ago on the William Tyrrell case, but my post was deleted by mods as they said that I was a new member.

 

[Kemug]

I posted a couple of weeks ago on the William Tyrrell case, but my post was deleted by mods as they said that I was a new member.

What??!!

 

[MrJ]

I have noticed that a lot of us on here seem to have only joined when this case became world famous. Welcome, and please stick around! I would be really interested to know (because that's what I do!) exactly how many. Could a Moderator please tell us, or is that not allowed? Or is it too difficult to calculate?

I apparently joined in 2021 but started commenting on here in August 2023, right when the case started. I am a Victorian so this case had a particular special meaning for me. Just a bizarre one right off the bat and it only got crazier from there. I guess also I want to take the opportunity to say I really appreciate all the discussions I've been a part of, all the people that I've met on here all discussing the case, and the trial. I really appreciate this community.

 

[dothetime]

It's almost unbelievable that Erin would take photos of deathcaps on her scales, in her kitchen!

I keep thinking of the avatar she chose for herself on Facebook.

A witch avatar, oh dear, this is so bizarre, but just before this popped up I was about to post the question, "could EP be into witchcraft?" Any thoughts?

 

[JBowie]

Lies mushrooming in court [bbm]:

In her recorded interview with police a week after the lunch, Ms Patterson said she’d never foraged for mushrooms.

On the stand however, she admitted this was a lie, telling the jury she developed an interest in wild mushrooms during the early 2020 Covid

Over a period of months she said she grew confident in identifying field and horse mushrooms in the paddocks on her property, before “eventually” eating them.

“I cut a bit off one of the mushrooms, fried it up with some butter, ate it, and then saw what happened,” she said.

“They tasted good and I didn’t get sick.”

Ms Patterson said over the following years she would go foraging in nearby areas and cook the wild mushrooms into meals for her and her children.

But she said she’d never foraged at two locations, Loch and Outtrim, where prosecutors allege phone records indicate a possible visit after death cap sightings were posted on iNaturalist.

In cross-examination, she refuted a suggestion by Dr Rogers that her interest in mushrooms was invented “to try and explain why you put foraged death cap mushrooms in the meal”.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/erin-patterson-trial-what-alleged-mushroom-poisoner-told-jury-over-eight-days-in-witness-box/news-story/0bd24b13d6528211f40673f9b8f48694