Spurned Woman POISONS IN-LAWS DEAD with Fancy 'Home Made' BEEF WELLINGTON

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Erin Patterson tries to enlist her estranged husband's family to help reunite the family.

Patterson cooks a big meal of Beef Wellington and invites her ex, Simon Patterson, as well as Simon's parents Gail and Don Patterson. Erin also invites Gail's sister Heather and her pastor husband, Ian Wilkinson to the dinner.

Simon Patterson cancels at the last minute. The rest of the family enjoys the meal. Gail Patterson, 70, and her husband, Don, 70, both get sick within a day of eating the food. Gail Patterson's sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66, and her husband Pastor Ian Wilkinson, also get sick. All three die a few days later. Much beloved Pastor Ian Wilkinson survives the meal but now needs a liver transplant.

Police opened an investigation saying the people who fell ill and died displayed symptoms of having eaten death cap mushrooms. Erin Patterson is arrested and charged with 3 counts of murder and 5 counts of attempted murder.

The 49-year-old maintains her innocence and stresses she did not intentionally poison her guests.

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:07.0	How does a woman go from a life of privilege after she inherits wealth and property to being questioned regarding a mushroom lunch.
0:31.0	Okay, let that sink in. A woman with vast wealth and property now is being
0:38.8	questioned about a mushroom lunch.
0:43.0	Mushrooms. I can take them or leave them.
0:47.0	Don't love them, don't hate them.
0:49.0	But I'm looking at them now completely differently after a fatal mushroom lunch.
0:59.3	I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and on
1:05.1	serious XM 111. Now first of all, who is she? Who is the mushroom chef?
1:14.8	Listen to this.
1:15.6	Aaron and her sister's son when grow up in the suburbs with their parents Heather and
1:19.2	Ait and Scudder.
1:20.2	Her father's a government worker and her mother, Dr Heather Scudder, became a university lecturer in 19th century literature.
1:26.0	As an adult, Aaron Scudder takes an air traffic control course and begins work at a local airport.
1:31.0	Co-workers say she's a bit of a genius as an air traffic
1:34.1	controller. A few years later Aaron married Simon Patterson. The two met in
1:38.3	college and have two children, a son and a daughter. The Patterson stay married
1:41.8	a few years but differences lead to a divorce.
1:44.1	It appears to be an amiable one. It appears to be an amiable one and in fact by all accounts it is.
1:49.8	They co-parent the children. A wealthy mother of two, Aaron Patterson, led a life of privilege.
2:01.4	So how did that take a U-turn and where did all the money come from?
2:07.0	When Aaron Patterson's parents die, she inherits enough money to purchase several local
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