GUILTY Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 *Arrest* #21

[Warshawski]

It surely would lead me to insanity. But if that is what the prison has to do, so be it. However Human Rights might not agree. So I don't know what the answer is.

I think I have a problem with Human Rights when the
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Correct. She will blame the mushrooms.

and the Victims, because they ate the mushrooms !

 

[Susjay]

I think because she is appealing the convictions, not the sentence. She is saying she is not guilty. IMO

Not guilty? Erin Patterson? Oh, in what universe do you reside?

 

[Susjay]

Correct. She will blame the mushrooms.

Naughty, naughty mushrooms… yep, those mushrooms should demonstrate more self control.

 

[Susjay]

You're a few years late.

Ian did survive, but has health issues to this day.

The host of the lunch, his wife's sister's daughter in law, was found guilty of three counts of murder, one of attempted murder. Life with no parole for thirty three years. Both sides appealing, prosecution wants a longer non parole period, defence wants a new trial or an acquittal or a parade with balloons and puppies, I don't know.

Luvyawerk lamshadow

 

[JBowie]

Duncan McNab writes in his book Recipe for Murder (out on Tuesday through Hachette) that the clues to discovering the real Erin Patterson and what she was capable of can be found in the online community built by fans of true crime, a genre that Patterson was obsessed with.

(pay-walled)

For those following the case closely over a period there's not a lot of new stuff in this brief excerpt which discusses her online alter ego as reported by those she corresponded there with, however, McNab reveals that EP told online 'friends' that she hated her sister and that she referred to Simon as The Messiah.

Facebook ‘friends’ reveal the bizarre online life of Erin Patterson​

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/facebook-friends-reveal-the-bizarre-online-life-of-erin-patterson/news-story/2e0d888dc436a2b1f971e8e51adbbec5

 

[JBowie]

Recipe for Murder: The poisonous truth behind Erin Patterson the mushroom murderer of Leongatha by Duncan McNab - Books

<b>THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF ERIN PATTERSON AND THE MUSHROOM MURDER TRIAL THAT ENTHRALLED THE WORLD</b>

www.hachette.com.au

 

[Kemug]

I just watched QI this evening. Several interesting teapots were featured, including one called a "poison teapot". It had 2 spaces for liquids, and you could pour from either or both. Erin would love it!

 

[LinasK]

Recipe for Murder: The poisonous truth behind Erin Patterson the mushroom murderer of Leongatha by Duncan McNab - Books

<b>THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF ERIN PATTERSON AND THE MUSHROOM MURDER TRIAL THAT ENTHRALLED THE WORLD</b>

www.hachette.com.au

Apropos title. The Beef Wellington was a recipe for murder. I feel for the cookbook author whose recipe she used.

 

[Detechtive]

Duncan McNab writes in his book Recipe for Murder (out on Tuesday through Hachette) that the clues to discovering the real Erin Patterson and what she was capable of can be found in the online community built by fans of true crime, a genre that Patterson was obsessed with.

(pay-walled)

For those following the case closely over a period there's not a lot of new stuff in this brief excerpt which discusses her online alter ego as reported by those she corresponded there with, however, McNab reveals that EP told online 'friends' that she hated her sister and that she referred to Simon as The Messiah.

Facebook ‘friends’ reveal the bizarre online life of Erin Patterson​

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/facebook-friends-reveal-the-bizarre-online-life-of-erin-patterson/news-story/2e0d888dc436a2b1f971e8e51adbbec5

She told me she hated her sister, too, amongst a lot of other slanderous things about her. I have not repeated them because I feel sorry for her poor sister and I don't think they are true, in hindsight. Imagine what kind of life she had with her as her sister.

None of the witnesses to Patterson’s online life noted any hint of what might happen at that lunch in July 2023. Not one of the members of this true crime group had been prompted to dig into the life of one of their own. For a group of chatterers and amateur sleuths, they weren’t as inquisitive when the alleged murderer was someone they knew. The shock of what had unfolded was likely too close to home.

Too busy focusing elsewhere - always the wrong places. Erin got a lot of criminal analysis wrong, IMO. Cleo being one example. She just didn't have a good head for crime, as we can see by her terrible murder plot. She also bought into deranged conspiracy theories, mostly about people she knew - not the 'world is flat' type theories. IMO

 

[Tricia]

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[Serononin]

IMO, the solution to horrific prison conditions isn't too lessen the sentence, it's to do what they could to make the conditions better. I realise that would take a lot of funding and staffing, but surely that's better than letting her go early.

What about all the other women in the prison? I've got a lot more sympathy for someone who had a horrific childhood and is in jail due to bad decisions and non-violent crimes. Who is speaking up for them?

BBM

That's exactly why I'm having trouble feeling any sympathy for her, much as I do believe in prison reform. She was living a very nice life, which she could so easily still be living right now had she not made the completely inexplicable decision to murder three people who were, by all accounts, perfectly lovely folks who didn't even have any ill will towards her