GUILTY Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 *Arrest* #17

[drsleuth]

Exhibit C
Signal messages between Erin Patterson and Simon Patterson on October 14 and 15, 2022









Exhibit 82
Additions to exhibit 51 [redacted]

The photos, the recordings: What the jury saw and heard in the mushroom trial

For the first time, we’re bringing you a look at the key exhibits and moments that defined Erin Patterson’s murder trial.

www.theage.com.au

 

[drsleuth]

There is lots of exhibits in this link

The photos, the recordings: What the jury saw and heard in the mushroom trial

For the first time, we’re bringing you a look at the key exhibits and moments that defined Erin Patterson’s murder trial.

www.theage.com.au

 

[drsleuth]

https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/hub/media/tearout-excerpt/46233/Exhibit-84---Agreed-facts-dated-2-June-2025.pdf

 

[ellyvantelli]

...And they died the most horrendous , painful deaths, that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy....

"At times it seemed almost an afterthought, during an extended trial subject to ghoulish fascination, that Don Patterson, Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson died terrible deaths."

Australian mushroom murders: Erin Patterson guilty verdict ends weeks of laborious detail and ghoulish fascination

Victorian jury convicts 50-year-old who poisoned her in-laws with death cap mushrooms, killing three

www.theguardian.com

RSBM BBM

Terrible, painful, protracted deaths.

This is the aspect that has been on my mind a lot.
[And often got lost in 'The EP Show' that the accused tried to distract the trial into.]

These were violent murders. Hopefully it will be given due weight in the next, sentencing, phase.
MOO

edited to add:
and coldblooded

 

[drsleuth]

Exhibit Y
Second photo from search on 5 August 2023


Exhibit Q
Two photographs from search on 5 August 2023

The photos, the recordings: What the jury saw and heard in the mushroom trial

For the first time, we’re bringing you a look at the key exhibits and moments that defined Erin Patterson’s murder trial.

www.theage.com.au

 

[drsleuth]

https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/hub/media/tearout-excerpt/46239/Exhibit-PP---Agreed-facts-dated-12-June-2025.pdf

 

[drsleuth]

The photos, the recordings: What the jury saw and heard in the mushroom trial

For the first time, we’re bringing you a look at the key exhibits and moments that defined Erin Patterson’s murder trial.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

Australian mushroom murders: Erin Patterson guilty verdict ends weeks of laborious detail and ghoulish fascination

Victorian jury convicts 50-year-old who poisoned her in-laws with death cap mushrooms, killing three

www.theguardian.com

A travelling circus​

And a circus, at times, it was: people were chased out of court after trying to take selfies with Patterson, or, at one point, reaching out to touch her hand. Another man was marched out after directing a protest at Justice Christopher Beale. An article that was to be about the “media circus” breached a suppression order, as did multiple other publications.

There was a man with rainbow coloured hair and a matching coat, who runs a business giving people “unicorn manes”. A woman who runs a popular true crime Instagram account shared the front row with novelist Helen Garner.

Patterson spent week nights inside the Morwell police cells. Every day of the trial, she walked about 30 steps along a passageway, no wider than three metres, from the back of the station into the court building.


I guess we can expect a book by Helen Garner

From the article:

"Other media outlets, and a juror who was dismissed, could yet face further proceedings resulting from the trial."

Jurors can be prosecuted for discussing the case with people?

 

[drsleuth]

The photos, the recordings: What the jury saw and heard in the mushroom trial

For the first time, we’re bringing you a look at the key exhibits and moments that defined Erin Patterson’s murder trial.

www.theage.com.au

 

[drsleuth]

https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/hub/media/tearout-excerpt/46241/Exhibit-F----[redacted].pdf

 

[Anika]

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https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/hub/media/tearout-excerpt/46241/Exhibit-F----[redacted].pdf

To me, this does make the motive seem much clearer.

 

[drsleuth]

https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/hub/media/tearout-excerpt/46241/Exhibit-F----[redacted].pdf

 

[sunspun]

“Patterson did not stand when the jury left the room.”

All the evidence that brought down triple murderer Erin Patterson

A jury took just seven days to find the mother-of-two did deliberately lace a beef wellington with toxic death cap mushrooms to kill three people and almost murder a fourth.

7news.com.au

Disrespectful

To the end

 

[vls12345]

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/top-lawyers-react-to-jurys-guilty-verdict-of-mushroom-killer-erin-patterson-on-sky-news-australia/news-story/93bc10667432e0f59b2c5e9ab345d796

 

[drsleuth]

'She's no dope': Who is the host of Australia's most infamous lunch?

The world has met Erin Patterson as the murderous cook behind a mushroom meal that killed three relatives. But years before her courtroom infamy, the woman from Melbourne's suburbs divided opinions.

www.abc.net.au

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Former colleagues remember 'aggressive' and 'strange' co-worker​

At one point, Erin made a bullying complaint against another air traffic controller, one former colleague said.

Another former colleague, who also didn't want to be named for work reasons, remembered a more hostile version of Erin Scutter.

"She was quite aggressive in the way she spoke to people," they told the ABC.

A third former colleague said during her time at Air Services, Erin would call into the air traffic control centre pretending to be another worker and say they were sick.

They thought it was part of a plan Erin had to pick up lucrative shifts covering the sick leave of others.

Another remembers Erin giggling in a corner of the room when a confused air traffic controller was being quizzed by her bosses, who asked: "Why are you here? Didn't you call in sick?"

They suspect Erin was behind a phone call to the bosses earlier that day, as a prank.


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In June 2004, Erin was almost three times over the legal limit when she was involved in a drunken crash at Glen Waverley.

Court records reveal she was driving an unregistered car and didn't stop after the crash or give her name and address. She was also driving 35km/h over the speed limit in a 60 kilometres per hour zone.

Erin pleaded guilty to five charges and was convicted and fined $1,000, which she elected to pay in $40 monthly instalments.

Her licence was cancelled and she was disqualified from driving in Victoria for two and a half years.

 

[drsleuth]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/every-day-the-sole-surviving-death-cap-mushrooms-guest-braved-the-evidence-of-the-erin-patterson-trial/news-story/00d39b410837e6c454b65cea01c6e660?amp

Ian Wilkinson, walking through the court, gave Ms Patterson a cold, deliberate stare before moving through the room, later telling the jury that he and his wife weren’t particularly close to the accused.

 

[JennieM]

That “separated” started it all.

 

[Parker Knoll]

Wow … what an utterly bizarre creature she really is.

 

[drsleuth]

‘Do I have to keep suffering through this?’: The moment Erin Patterson lost her cool in court

It is the outburst the jury never heard but which would quietly define the first days of Erin Patterson’s murder trial.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

‘Do I have to keep suffering through this?’: The moment Erin Patterson lost her cool in court​

Tantrums, tip-offs and contempt: Behind the scenes of the mushroom murder trial

By Marta Pascual Juanola

July 8, 2025

It was April 30, and the prosecution was only an hour into laying out its case against the killer cook, when the mother of two hissed at her defence team from the dock in courtroom four.

“Do I have to keep suffering through this?” she cried out.

The previous afternoon, Mandy had lodged an extraordinary appeal with Supreme Court Justice Christopher Beale, asking for “special treatment” for his client and arguing that the defence was unable to do its job properly if Patterson was suffering.

The source of Patterson’s discomfort was the fact she was not allowed to have a laptop or writing materials in her cell, and that she had not been given a doona and pillow for her bed. She wanted access to a laptop to review the brief of evidence of the case, which was tens of thousands of pages.


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“Don’t believe a word he says, your honour,” prosecutor Rogers chimed in.

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“I have a small request for you, please,” Simon asked from the witness box during a break in proceedings on May 1. “Your honour, would you be able to make available – after all the legal proceedings are finished – the transcripts of all those hearings, including the trial, for me to be able to, as I grieve the legal process, to help me deal with that grief … it will take me years.”

Alot more in link

 

[drsleuth]

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/mushroom-cook-erin-patterson-accused-of-tampering-with-prison-food-that-allegedly-caused-another-inmate-to-fall-ill/news-story/b96ae06b811e3b459a3e4304fcec3ffd

Inside the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, sources described Patterson as “entitled” during her time on remand. “All the girls have issues with each other in there,” one insider said. “The unit Erin was housed in was almost like a melting pot of tension as they are confined to the middle of the jail and have to be escorted anywhere they go.”

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Patterson was subsequently placed in solitary confinement — referred to as “the slot” — for more than 22 hours a day while prison officers investigated the incident.

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The conditions of Patterson’s detention also became a point of contention during her trial. In the absence of the jury, her barrister, Colin Mandy SC, told Justice Christopher Beale that his client had been denied basic items while held at Morwell Police Station

“She had agreed with Corrections that she could have a doona and a pillow and she wasn’t given those things.”

Poor Erin Erin Erin