Poisoning Suspect Erin Patterson Threw Away Her Food Dehydrator After Lunch! And MORE Shocking New Deets!
16.08.2023 - 00:17
/ perezhilton.com
This case just keeps growing like a wild mushroom. To catch everyone up on the latest mystery in the world of true crime…
An Australian woman named Erin Patterson is under suspicion after she invited a bunch of in-laws over for lunch, and all four became violently ill. They were rushed to the hospital with “suspected mushroom poisoning.” One is still in critical condition but may just pull through. The other three died within hours. Meanwhile Erin and her children, who were all there, have shown zero symptoms.
The in-laws were the relatives of her ex-husband, Simon Patterson. His parents, Gail and Don Patterson, are dead, as is Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson. Heather’s husband, Ian Wilkinson, needs a liver transplant if he’s going to have any hope.
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Over the past couple days a LOT of our questions have been answered as we’ve learned more from both reports AND from Erin’s own statement to police. How much of that you can trust is up to you. But here’s what we’ve heard…
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1 What Was For Lunch? 2 Why Didn’t Erin Get Sick? 3 Why Invite Her Former In-Laws? 4 Why Did Police get Involved So Fast? 5 Erin Lied To The Cops?!? What Was For Lunch?
Remember, police say the family members’ sickness was consistent with death cap mushroom poisoning. It turns out the dish they all ate? Beef Wellington pie, per The Guardian Australia. Many recipes for the dish do call for mushrooms. The question now is, what kind?
According to Erin’s statement, the mushrooms in her pie were a mix of button mushrooms from a major supermarket franchise and dried mushrooms she’d bought from an Asian grocery in Melbourne some months prior. She was not able