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

[HoneyBunOne]

Has anyone stopped to think that Erin is just a %*$# cook?
Every time she tries to actually use ingredients, she nearly wipes people out? Detechtive says she's not a cook, more a preparer of pre packaged food. We know she loves a good old bargain piece of near-use-by-date beef. We all know someone we'd rather not accept a home cooked meal invitation from, maybe Erin was the one amongst her friends and family?
MOO

 

[Detechtive]

Has anyone stopped to think that Erin is just a %*$# cook?
Every time she tries to actually use ingredients, she nearly wipes people out? Detechtive says she's not a cook, more a preparer of pre packaged food. We know she loves a good old bargain piece of near-use-by-date beef. We all know someone we'd rather not accept a home cooked meal invitation from, maybe Erin was the one amongst her friends and family?
MOO

She’s a bad cook. She used to cook Asian food and show us but it was the western equivalent of Asian food, and it honestly looked disgusting. Overcooked vegetables, soggy noodles, etc.

I’m frankly shocked she had the Recipe Tin Eats book.

 

[Detechtive]

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.

 

[LinasK]

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.

I can imagine that she was bugging him for everything under the sun trying to get him back.

 

[Detechtive]

I can imagine that she was bugging him for everything under the sun trying to get him back.

Yeah she definitely didn’t want him back the majority of the time, until he moved on IMO.

I recall seeing something from the trial where she was messaging him from New Zealand to help her at her property while she was away.

I know that Simon declined to go on that trip with her.

It’s my personal opinion that she liked to keep him busy.

 

[LinasK]

She’s a bad cook. She used to cook Asian food and show us but it was the western equivalent of Asian food, and it honestly looked disgusting. Overcooked vegetables, soggy noodles, etc.

I’m frankly shocked she had the Recipe Tin Eats book.

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?

 

[Deleted member 363451]

Yes it also causes paralysis of the gut, collapse, and bowel perforation which is what Simon was hospitalised for in ICU. iMO

God.

 

[Detechtive]

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 it was an eye fillet, IMO. Pretty hard to mess that one up.

And yeah, if you saw their choices of food on the way back from Tyabb - dim sims, hotdogs, service station sandwiches and subway, they’re not exactly used to eating good food, IMO.

Erin is also extremely frugal, to an extreme degree - I could imagine she wouldn’t usually spend money on good eye fillets. IMO

 

[LinasK]

Because it was an eye fillet, IMO. Pretty hard to mess that one up.

And yeah, if you saw their choices of food on the way back from Tyabb - dim sims, hotdogs, service station sandwiches and subway, they’re not exactly used to eating good food, IMO.

Erin is also extremely frugal, to an extreme degree - I could imagine she wouldn’t usually spend money on good eye fillets. IMO

Yeah, it's a long way from Beef Wellington to that kind of food.

 

[Deleted member 363451]

Has anyone stopped to think that Erin is just a %*$# cook?
Every time she tries to actually use ingredients, she nearly wipes people out? Detechtive says she's not a cook, more a preparer of pre packaged food. We know she loves a good old bargain piece of near-use-by-date beef. We all know someone we'd rather not accept a home cooked meal invitation from, maybe Erin was the one amongst her friends and family?
MOO

Have you been following the case closely?

 

[lazymaiden07]

I think she’s obsessed with natures poisons, not mushrooms.

She allegedly tried to poison Simon previously with night shades.

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

 

[katydid23]

How would she have known?

Good question. If she was innocent, never foraged, never added any wild mushrooms, how would she know the doctors were incorrect with their diagnosis.

The victims had been there long enough for many tests to be done. Wouldn't she assume they had evidence supporting the diagnosis?

Interesting that she thought they were wrong.

 

[katydid23]

Can someone please clarify this statement? Had the topic of death cap mushrooms been discussed with Erin and any member of staff at the hospital at the time she elected to leave? I'm assuming a medical professional had brought it to her attention that death cap poisoning may be responsible for the illness' the 4 were experiencing? If so, she knew she had eaten the same meal as the others, but just based on her digging in her heels and thinking the mushrooms were ok, she left? How does an innocent person do that, especially knowing they foraged the mushrooms and may have accidently picked death caps? I think I'd almost be the opposite, if there was any chance of having ingested toxins I'd take myself to hospital and ask to be tested, along with my kids who'd eaten leftovers-that-may-actually-have-been-from-the-lunch-maybe-not-maybe-from-the-freezer-who-knows?

That's why the police were onto her so fast, imo.

She signed paperwork at the hospital saying that she was signing out even though the hospital advised her to stay for testing and treatment. AND they wanted her children to come in immediately.

They got Simon to pick up the children but she left and said she would return soon.

But I think that's why the police were so quick to go to her home for the leftovers and to run her financials, which is how they learned about the tipped dehydrator.

 

[HoneyBunOne]

Have you been following the case closely?

As much as I can, but it's moving fast and this thread is going at warp speed.

 

[lazymaiden07]

Yes it also causes paralysis of the gut, collapse, and bowel perforation which is what Simon was hospitalised for in ICU. iMO

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

 

[katydid23]

Can you elaborate on the nightshades being the source of Simon's ills? I haven't been able to keep up with all the posts here. Thanks.

If he was in a coma, near death at times, I'm pretty sure the hospital did a lot of tests to try and identify the source. I'm thinking they were able to narrow it down to something from that family of toxins. IMO

 

[Monstradamus]

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

It seems SP was the main source of her narcissistic supply. The tap was being turned off, and she didn't cope well with that.
MOO

 

[Eloise]

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?

In my experience of kids (having my own, being one once, knowing a lot of them, and working with them) kids are pretty bad judges of objectively good food.
see this meme video as an example (language warning for 1 f-bomb)

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7405126514313874720

If he was in a coma, near death at times, I'm pretty sure the hospital did a lot of tests to try and identify the source. I'm thinking they were able to narrow it down to something from that family of toxins. IMO

Who knows? All we really know is based on 'a source' saying 'Simon thought' it was nightshades. We might never know why Simon thought that, given the attempted murder charges were dropped.

 

[lazymaiden07]

In my experience of kids (having my own, being one once, knowing a lot of them, and working with them) kids are pretty bad judges of objectively good food.
see this meme video as an example (language warning for 1 f-bomb)

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7405126514313874720

Who knows? All we really know is based on 'a source' saying 'Simon thought' it was nightshades. We might never know why Simon thought that, given the attempted murder charges were dropped.

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

 

[Deleted member 363451]

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

It's difficult to fathom. Also she was apparently going to move to Phillip Island to be close to her children's school. Maybe she thought that Simon would still be under her beck and call?