The accused killer claimed to be snowed under when questioned by health department officials

trying to trace the source of a poison which affected her relatives.

Ms Patterson changed the details when asked about the ingredients for the beef wellingtons,

which she allegedly laced with death cap mushrooms.

The senior public health advisor recalled a conversation she had with erin paterson after being notified of suspected

death cap mushroom poisonings miss paterson claimed to have bought mushrooms from an asian grocer

from either clayton oakley or mount waverley but said she couldn't remember which suburb because she'd driven

around a lot that day. She said she didn't have the packaging anymore. She said it was a small

see-through bag with a white label on it that didn't have a lot of writing on it. Ms. Patterson

decided to make individual Beef Wellington's because she wanted to make something fancy but

didn't have enough button mushrooms. She needed a kilo,

so she thought she'd just add the rest of those mushrooms into the mushroom mix. Ms. Patterson

denied foraging for mushrooms. In the days after the lunch, health officials were frantically

trying to trace the source of the poisonous mushrooms. They tried to contact Ms. Patterson repeatedly,

often receiving no response. Ms. Patterson appeared to change her story about when she'd purchased the ingredients

for the beef Wellington dish. Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson all suffered extensive

liver damage and organ failure consistent with death cap mushroom poisoning. Prosecutors claim Erin Patterson deliberately poisoned her lunch guests with death cat mushrooms.

She maintains her innocence and insists she didn't intend to poison anyone.

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