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Woman who cooked suspected poisoned meal details where she bought mushrooms from

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/mushroom-poisoning-leongatha-erin-patterson-police-statement/102725876

The woman who cooked a meal that is believed to have contained poisonous mushrooms and led to the deaths of three people gives a lengthy written statement to police detailing her account of what happened, and revealing she was hospitalised after the incident.

Woman who cooked suspected poisoned meal details where she bought mushrooms from

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Elgordofordo86

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This is the first article I've seen that says she did in fact eat the mushrooms too. So many have left that out because they want this to be a scandal.

unionagainstdhmo

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Oh yeah and the media loves a good scandal. I hope it doesn't affect the police investigation

Ciaocibai

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And got mildly sick vs dead. Just makes it seem more deliberate to me. Not a cop though and I’m sure they are doing their due diligence.

wahming

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Innocent before proven guilty, let's not speculate unnecessarily

Spacebar

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she did it, including killing her own sister because of unknown reasons...
her husband did it as revenge, including his parents, because they liked her more than him
it was an accident

Two articles on the internet gives us not nearly enough information.

Marin_Rider

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yeah i really have no idea what to think about it. ill admit i was quick to judge initially but it seems there might be more to it, that will come to light thanks to a decent justice system. maybe it was a legit terrible accident, honestly hard to say now

Ciaocibai

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Is there any chance this wasn’t deliberate? Seems super sus.

Kittybird

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No way! Just because she invited over her estranged husband and his parents and other family members AND she had an interest in wild mushrooms AND her kids are perfectly fine

Of course it wasn't deliberate!

..... /s

Wondrous_Fairy

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Ciaocibai

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She said she purchased them months ago from an Asian supermarket but can’t remember where. No doubt a cash transaction. I don’t believe for a second she purchased those commercially as there would doubtless be other contaminated batches if so.

Wondrous_Fairy

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Drusas

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As someone who forages for wild mushrooms, I would like to point out that death caps don't resemble edible mushrooms. They are an amanita and are fairly distinctive. Obviously people do die eating these after somehow thinking they were edible, but it's an amateur mistake.

Wondrous_Fairy

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Drusas

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It would not be so noticeable after they've been dehydrated and chopped up, no. They should still be identifiable as an amanita if they're dehydrated and not chopped up, but it would be harder. But whoever gathered the mushroom should have been able to identify it as inedible, unless they were very inexperienced (and thus not likely to be somebody who forages and sells to stores).

surreptitiouswalk

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It's possible. I think what made it look real bad for her, as she says herself, is to give a "no comment" initial interview. I'm not aware of people being charged with murder for previous accidents of eating death caps that they picked themselves, so the fact that she initially hid things, and even now are still saying things that are clearly lies (e.g. the desiccator) doesn't make her look good.

Personally I'm not passing judgement yet, but it's definitely seems more interesting now than just an unfortunate accident. If her claim is true, does that mean we can't trust supermarket food to be safe now? That's would be a far bigger and serious revelation than another accidental death cap incident.

No1

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Defo seems sus, but then Lindy Chamberlain 🤷