Mushroom Mania | Erin Patterson

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Erin Patterson invited her elderly relatives, including her estranged in-laws, over for lunch in late July 2023 in rural Victoria, Australia. She made them a meal of Beef Wellington, which they all enjoyed. She told police that she and her children also consumed the meal.

The day after the lunch, all of the guests became so ill they had to attend hospital. Three of them would pass away, and the fourth is fighting for his life, waiting for a liver transplant.

Erin has given a statement to police saying that she made the meal with dried mushrooms that she purchased from an Asian grocer. She cannot remember the name of the store where she made the purchase. She also threw out her food dehydrator after her husband questioned if she had poisoned his parents.

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the case of Erin Patterson – murder or naïve accident?

In this episode, we also discuss updates in the Jared Bridegan and Moscow murder cases. As of the day this episode was released, there have been further Moscow updates which we will discuss in our next episode.

Time Stamps:
Jared Bridegan & Moscow Updates: (6:13)
Erin Patterson: (12:18)

Read our blog for this case - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2023/08/08/death-by-mushroom/

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0:11.2	that my microphone base has springs on it and I was messing with them throughout this episode.
0:16.2	So please excuse any of that noise. It's not too bad but just wanted to add a disclaimer before
0:23.2	anyone commented about it but won't be happening again. I put a note on the springs not to touch them
0:28.8	so I won't be doing that anymore. All right, enjoy the episode. Bye!
0:49.9	What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie
0:54.3	and Olivia. We're recording on a Sunday today a little different for us because I went and played
1:00.7	trivia at the bar on Thursday when we normally record because I just wanted to do that and I won
1:09.0	so it was worth it. I had to prove my smarts to everyone. There was actually one around I was sending
1:14.8	you the pictures from it was like celebrity mug shots and I knew pretty much all of them except
1:19.6	two. One, I had no idea who it was and I wrote that he was Anthony Bourdain. Anthony Bourdain
1:27.4	but most of them I knew so I'm glad I could prove myself and there was a question about the story.
1:34.3	It was like last week sometime where the woman tried to get DNA off the body by pouring like
1:39.1	die a mountain dew on the body or something because apparently I was reading about that.
1:42.8	Apparently Mountain Dew destroys, I don't know, some chemical. I'm not done up the whole story but
1:48.4	she had a lot of idea. Yeah, there was a question about that and of course the people on my team
1:52.9	were like, Stephanie's about murder, you should know the answer. I didn't remember what soda,
1:58.9	it was exactly so I just put soda and that was accepted. I was like thank god, it'd be so embarrassing
2:06.3	to get a true crime question around. But yeah, also just ate a whole bunch of McDonald's,
2:11.4	so I'm really feeling crappy about myself right now. That's my, I'm ahead of you. That was my
2:16.0	last night. Now it's Monday morning. Oh my god, we're doing sing. But it's funny because one of my
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