Where is the chain of evidence?  You can't just insert rumours and stories from neighbours... Where Are The Books?  Where are the people who went mushrooming with her in person to testify to her outstanding knowledge of all things fungi- including knowing the difference between the death fungi and others?

I'm starting to get the feeling she might walk on this one.....  and it's only just begun......

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/erin-patterson-family-friend-says-deadly-...



August 16,    2023 10:30AM


The deadly mushroom cook behind the poisonous lunch that killed three of her relatives was an experienced fungi forager, a friend of the family says.

The friend said Erin Patterson was “very good at foraging” and knew how to identify the wild mushroom varieties near her home in Leongatha in Victoria’s Gippsland region.

“The Patterson family (including Erin and ex-husband Simon) would pick mushrooms each year when they were in season,” the friend told the Daily Mail.

“It’s very common for people to go mushroom picking around that area.”

It comes as Ms Patterson has hit back at being unfairly “painted as an evil witch”.

“I lost my parents-in-law, my children lost their grandparents,’’ she told The Australian on Wednesday.

“And I’ve been painted as an evil witch. And the media is making it impossible for me to live in this town. I can’t have friends over.

“The media is at the house where my children are at. The media are at my sister’s house so I can’t go there. This is unfair.’’

Ms Patterson, 48, invited her form er in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson and her husband Ian to her home for lunch on July 29.

After eating the beef Wellington cooked and served by Ms Paterson, the guests became violently ill.

Gail and Don, both 70, and Heather, 66, later died. Ian is in hospital fighting for his life.

Erin’s ex-husband Simon Patterson was also supposed to be at the meal but pulled out.

Police suspect that the lunch contained highly toxic death cap mushrooms.

In a written statement to police, Ms Patterson said she bought the mushrooms she used in the dish at two separate stores — button mushrooms from a supermarket and dried mushrooms from an Asian grocery shop in Melbourne

I'd like to see clear evidence that she had those books, and that she was a forager etc...

It's called 'chain of evidence'   --someone says she had books on fungi - there are receipts or records of her purchasing such books or they are in evidence at her home....... otherwise it's hearsay.

This is like Martin Bryant - AFTER the event tall tales arose in the boondocks of Tasmania about how he was known to grab the steering wheel of the car his late benefactor drove and such and how he must therefore have caused her death and his own serious injury etc and thus gained her property and inheritance   ...  and that he was out shooting all the time and was an expert shot, which does not gel with his testimony on record and is not supported by ammunition purchase receipts etc ... and that he was known to be weird (well - he has a very low IQ) and loved surfing and didn't shoot animals ...

Somehow none of that gels with some alleged sudden urge to go down to the Broad Arrow and shoot some Asians/Japs or something ..... and in the absence of opportunity to do that - start shooting anyone in sight.... it just doesn't gel.

Where is the chain of evidence?  You can't just insert rumours and stories from neighbours... Where Are The Books?  Where are the people who went mushrooming with her in person to testify to her outstanding knowledge of all things fungi- including knowing the difference between the death fungi and others?

I'm starting to get the feeling she might walk on this one.....  and it's only just begun......

I'd like to see clear evidence that she had those books, and that she was a forager etc...

It's called 'chain of evidence'   --someone says she had books on fungi - there are receipts or records of her purchasing such books or they are in evidence at her home....... otherwise it's hearsay.

This is like Martin Bryant - AFTER the event tall tales arose in the boondocks of Tasmania about how he was known to grab the steering wheel of the car his late benefactor drove and such and how he must therefore have caused her death and his own serious injury etc and thus gained her property and inheritance   ...  and that he was out shooting all the time and was an expert shot, which does not gel with his testimony on record and is not supported by ammunition purchase receipts etc ... and that he was known to be weird (well - he has a very low IQ) and loved surfing and didn't shoot animals ...

Somehow none of that gels with some alleged sudden urge to go down to the Broad Arrow and shoot some Asians/Japs or something ..... and in the absence of opportunity to do that - start shooting anyone in sight.... it just doesn't gel.

Where is the chain of evidence?  You can't just insert rumours and stories from neighbours... Where Are The Books?  Where are the people who went mushrooming with her in person to testify to her outstanding knowledge of all things fungi- including knowing the difference between the death fungi and others?

I'm starting to get the feeling she might walk on this one.....  and it's only just begun......

Good comment from another site:

She had a Labrador, but didn't give it the beef Wellington she chucked in the bin.

It's weird that the dog didn't get the special high value meat treat that was binned,
usually such a high value meat treat wouldn't be wasted like this which makes me suspicious.
After she spent so much money on the meat and you had some left over
you would at least give it to the dog before putting it into the bin.

Bobby. wrote on May 1^st, 2025 at 7:56pm:



It's so expensive to feed dogs that no one would chuck
beef Wellington containing big chunks of ribeye fillet in the rubbish bin -
it would either go in the fridge for yourself the next day
or you would feed it to your dog.
There is not a dog in the world that could resist it.