Woman fatally poisons estranged in-laws with mushroom-laced beef Wellington

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This Week on True Crime News The Podcast: Erin Patterson served a poisoned beef Wellington that took the lives of three of her in-laws and landed a fourth in the hospital. While Patterson claimed she never meant to harm her guests, a jury convicted her on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Bobby Chacon joins host Ana Garcia. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know her voice. Now you can watch the stories only she can tell on Discovery Plus.
0:05.7	Join veteran journalist Anna Garcia for True Crime News, your daily source for real-time case updates, shocking scams, and urgent alerts.
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0:24.0	A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language.
0:30.4	It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing.
0:36.4	Hello and welcome to True Crime News, the podcast, covering high profile and under the radar cases from across the country every week.
0:43.3	I'm your host, Anna Garcia. Our case this week, well, we know for sure that the mushrooms in the beef Wellington they ate were poisonous because three people died and one other came quite close.
0:56.8	But the question before the jury was this. Did the hostess who forged those mushrooms know
1:04.0	they were poisonous before she served them to her former in-laws? And why is she the only one who didn't get sick? After nine weeks of testimony
1:13.4	and one week of deliberations, the verdict is in and the jury declares its murder. We are
1:19.7	recording this on Friday, July 11th of 2025. Our guest today is Bobby Chaconne, a former FBI agent,
1:26.5	a writer and a commentator that you can
1:28.5	catch on just about every news outlet. Bobby, welcome back. It's so good to see you again.
1:33.9	Good to see you. Thanks for having me back. And for those of you who are watching on YouTube,
1:38.1	a few things. If you notice that Bobby has a sling on, he's had some shoulder surgery. So
1:43.7	thank you for joining us at this time of recovery.
1:46.4	Sure. Thank you. Absolutely. And one more thing that we're going to talk about a little later.
1:50.4	It's just a silly little thing. But if you notice this gorgeous, gorgeous birdhouse behind me,
1:57.0	Mike King, one of our contributors, delivered it to me last night.
2:01.6	I'll show it to you all later. Isn't it fabulous? He makes it from everything he finds.
2:05.6	He calls it junk. He finds junk and he now makes birdhouses. So there you go.
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