Australia - 3 dead after eating wild mushrooms, Leongatha, Victoria, Aug 2023 #7 *Arrest*

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

That's psychopath territory in my book.

I suppose when any Narcissistic Personality Disordered person crosses over into acts of serious crime that violate the rights of others, they could then be classified as ASPD / sociopathic etc.
Whereas if they remain law abiding, they wouldn't. JMO

 

[Rumination1]

I am not sure what we are allowed to say but it strikes me that she had had two large inheritances . Perhaps she felt it was time Simon had an inheritance ( or two)
How awful!!

 

[arrogantcat]

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The court is being told about a website where concerned local people had been posting pictures and warnings about death cap mushrooms, geotagged to towns near Leongatha, where Ms Patterson lives.

The prosecutor says mobile phone transmission data suggested Patterson travelled to one of the nearby towns.
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Erin Patterson: Trial begins for Australia woman accused of toxic mushroom lunch

Erin Patterson, from Victoria, is facing three counts of murder and one of attempted murder over the alleged beef wellington poisoning in July 2023.

www.bbc.com

Imagine how awful those forum posters must be feeling. Innocently and unwittingly helping her allegedly commit murder, when they were trying to keep people safe.

I’m hoping we hear more about the posts and the exact locations she went to.

Speaking as a forager in the UK - there’s a good bit of luck involved in finding the right mushrooms, even in a proven spot. Often there can be nothing one morning, and dozens the next! Then gone again just a few days later. So even somebody sharing a photograph is no guarantee you will find them yourself.

Perhaps that’s why she had to visit more than one site, as suggested by the prosecution. Even then, she was fortunate not to have to return on different days. Odd to think that had the weather been just a little different, she might not have found any at all.

JMO

 

[arrogantcat]

That dehydrator was purchased from a Leongatha shop two-and-a-half hours before a trip to Loch, the prosecutor says."

So is this a second dehydrator, I wonder? Given we’re told she was already posting pictures of dehydrated mushrooms and talking about giving them to her kids.

Or did both of those things happen after the trip to Loch?

 

[Porky1]

So is this a second dehydrator, I wonder? Given we’re told she was already posting pictures of dehydrated mushrooms and talking about giving them to her kids.

Or did both of those things happen after the trip to Loch?

I guess she could have replaced an older one or wanted to keep them separate. Iam looking forward to hearing about it. It’s a key piece imho.

Disposing it at a local dump instead of her bins is highly suspicious. If you were guilty, wouldn’t you take it further afield, disguise, separate trays and dump in multiple locations? something that’s well and truly out of the area? Not an open rural dump. It’s panicked but is that guilt?

 

[Megnut]

That's psychopath territory in my book.

Right up there with sending someone to an agonizing death by death cap diarrhea and liver and kidney failure.

 

[Maat99]

I think she thought she could get away with it because she already got away with something similar. Her husband nearly died after eating a meal prepared by her. Was there any real suspicion that she was behind it?
Also, maybe hiding the mushrooms in the kids food is what gave her the idea of hiding poisonous mushrooms in food.

 

[Knitty]

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