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This is part two of the Mushroom Murders case with special guest Michelle Laurie from Australian

True Crime. Where we left off, Erin Patterson invited her estranged husband Simon and his elderly

parents and other family members for lunch, out of the blue, saying she

had something important to discuss with them. Simon declined because he'd already suspected

Aaron had tried to poison him several times, allegedly. But his parents, Don and Gail Patterson,

and his aunt and uncle, Ian and Heather Wilkinson, said yes to the invitation.

Over lunch, Erin announced that she'd been diagnosed with serious cancer as she served them

individual beef wellingtons on grey plates. The guests noticed that Erin's plate was orange.

Within 12 hours, all four elderly guests were violently ill.

Their organs began to shut down and they were rushed to hospital.

Simon put two and two together and sounded the alarm to the hospital that this might be

an intentional poisoning and death cap mushrooms came up.

Doctors needed to find out more about the meal that they ate.

But where was Erin Patterson?

Anyway, the doctor who was there is a great character in this story. Dr Chris Webster, he was in charge of the unit that day, just happened to be on shift at Lee and Gathar as this was unfolding. And when she arrived, he was like, oh, thank God, because he knew there was one person unaccounted for from talking to all the people about the story. He's thinking, where's the other one? Where's the other person who ate this lunch? She shows up. He goes, yes, great. We've been looking for you. Fantastic. But, of course, the jury didn't know that he had already been warned. We think she's the poisoner. Right. So again, the jury's a bit perplexed by this guy, but he says, look, no, I was just glad to see her because I knew there was a person missing. So when she came to, it's a tiny emergency room, you know, because it's a tiny hospital. And she walks through these sliding doors and the nurse says, great, you're here, the doctor wants to see you, take a seat. Where they sit her ends up two metres away from where Ian Wilkinson and Heather Wilkinson

are fighting for their lives.

They're still there at the little hospital.

There's CCTV of this.

Erin doesn't go over to them.

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