She's not a stupid person, she worked briefly as an air traffic controller which is a very hard course to qualify from.

But smart people do dumb things.

If she indeed killed them on purpose, all she had to do was claim it was a terrible accident form the beginning and there would be probably no case. She could say she foraged the mushrooms and made a terrible mistake. The max case they could bring would be something like criminal negligence.

Jasin wrote on Jun 20^th, 2025 at 7:55pm:


Will they let her tend the prison garden?

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 20^th, 2025 at 6:32pm:

Eh nein,i can collect poison mushrooms any day after rain followed by humidity in my front yard/ jungle.

I never would because-

1 doesn’t matter how much a expert you just can’t tell the difference between the good ones or death ones.

2 they aren’t going send me broke  to buy from a supermarket and ( hopefully) know I have healthy ones.


I think she’s guilty of man slaughter and has admitted as much.

They haven’t proven she did it on purpose .

If I mistaken killing three people from my cooking i would lose the plot and possibly act as she has.

People do crazy things under  huge pressure.

They have proven she’s a liar .

So what?

We have governments full of liars!

P.s she’s admitting to man slaughter. I believe that. I don’t believe they have proven she murdered .

just did 10 seconds of googling.
The difference between poisonous mushies and normal ones is pretty obvious.

the ones out the front of our place are poisonous

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 21^st, 2025 at 6:40pm:


Make sure the missus knows about that and it is on video..... just in case, you understand.

The jury is out now.

My opinion -

The judge seemed to be on Erin's side when he gave the jury advice.
He said something about how she wasn't on trial for lying -
she couldn't be convicted of murder for lying -
even though any jury member would see those lies as
an attempt to cover up the crime.

If the jury follows that advice then Erin might walk free.   

I've been mushrooming myself and believe me more than
90% of what I picked went into the rubbish bin.
Even all those Apps on the web can't 100% identify any mushroom.
Any mushroom near a tree with white gills is too suspicious to eat.
Was she asked any questions along those lines?

Even field mushrooms can look OK but with the poisonous yellow stainers -
you rub your thumbnail across the cap and if it leaves a yellow stain – don't eat it.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2025 at 5:41pm:


She's devious.  She's smart.  She's wholly responsible for the deaths of 3 people.  She almost killed her husband.  Fortunately he survived. 

She knew what death cap mushrooms looked like.  She made sure she and her children didn't eat any.  If she was totally innocent she would have eaten those mushrooms herself.  She tried to blame an Asian grocer ... but funnily enough no one else who bought mushrooms from that grocer died.

If she is found not guilty it will be biggest travesty of all time.   But lots of people on juries are loathe to convict.  And the verdict has to be unanimous.  There are 14 people on that jury and regardless of their decision, she will always be guilty in my mind.