Beef Wellington With Mushrooms: Murderer's Favorite Weapon

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Erin Patterson went hunting for special mushrooms, Death Cap Mushrooms. She needed them for a very special meal she was preparing for her soon to be ex-in-laws. Her husband Simon was invited to be at the dinner with his parents and extended family but Simon decided not to be present. He had gotten sick too many times before when he wasn't able to watch his wife, Erin, prepare the food they ate. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack are covering this story, again, because there is finally a conclusion to the case. Was Erin Patterson wrongly accused of trying to kill her husband and his family with Beef Wellington and mushrooms, or was she using this very special dish as a weapon for murder?

Transcribe Highlights

00:04.45 Introduction - Favorite meals

02:11.60 Beef Wellington used for murder

07:17.61 Toxic Mushroom - Death Cap Mushroom

11:10.88 What was to goal?

15:39.31 Patterson picked deadly mushrooms on purpose

20:03.78 Family members die, one needs liver transplant

25:35.37 Husband, Simon, nearly died multiple times

30:05.28 Symptoms are the same, food is different

35:17.86 Doctor friend tells victim to keep food journal

40:19.74 Could not solve the problem

45:11.15 Children will be scarred
conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.2	I bet that folks will understand what I'm about to say.
0:16.7	If you've got a mama or a grandma out there that when you were a kid, one of the ways they express their love to you is preparation of a meal.
0:34.1	And it's generally something that, that it might be simple.
0:38.6	If you're a kid, for instance, you know, fried chicken or spaghetti, perhaps.
0:44.6	I still remember my grandmother's fried chicken.
0:47.2	I put it up against anybody in the world.
0:49.3	Best fried chicken in the world.
0:53.1	But, you know, there's a lot of effort that goes into preparing a meal. It's not
1:01.0	something that, you know, mammas don't get the credit. Grandmonds don't get the credit they need to because, you know, most chefs that are out there, they have this air of celebrity about them, right?
1:15.2	Well, you know what they're absent that mamas and grandmothers have when they're making food?
1:22.9	That's love.
1:24.7	And it's translated through food many times. It wasn't my case.
1:28.3	And I think the more complex a recipe is it's almost demonstrative of love because it takes so much time.
1:39.3	And I'm thinking a meal I've always wanted to try, I've never had.
1:44.5	Beef Wellington.
1:46.5	It is a process to create this meal.
1:52.7	I've always thought it would be delicious.
1:55.7	But today, we're going to go back to a case that we have covered previously, but now we have more information.
2:04.9	It's a case of a mama who used Beef Wellington for murder.
2:17.2	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks.
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