In this episode Caroline and Wayne hear from a poisons expert who posted pictures of death cap mushrooms growing a few miles from Erin Patterson’s home. And we have the evidence from a mobile phone expert who says her mobile phone was recorded in the same location weeks later.

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In this episode Caroline and Wayne have the moment a juror was dismissed from the trial after being accused of breaking the rules. We also have more about mushrooms - of course - and if foragers can tell a toxic one from an edible one. Plus we have more on the rows Erin and Simon Patterson were having about money.

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Today Caroline and Wayne have some Lessons in Mushrooms from an expert known as Funkey Tom who gave evidence to the trial. He told the jury what the distinctive characteristics are of Death Cap Mushrooms. 

We also have the evidence of the Public Health expert who first asked Erin Patterson if she had foraged for the mushrooms she served in the beef wellingtons.

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In the episode Caroline and Wayne have the words of Erin Patterson’s two children. They were aged 14 and nine at the time and they were video interviewed shortly after the lunch. In their evidence they say their mum was too sick to go to church the morning after the lunch. We also have more details of how the toxins in death cap mushrooms destroy the human body.

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In this update episode Caroline and Wayne have the moment Erin Patterson’s daughter told police what she knew. She was just nine at the time and in court we saw the video of her being interviewed.

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In this episode Caroline and Wayne have the evidence of the only person to survive the beef wellington lunch. Over several hours in the witness box Ian Wilkinson spoke for the first time about what happened during Erin Patterson’s lunch party. He explained how he and his wife Heather fell ill that night and he didn’t know until he came out of a coma weeks later that she had died, along with her sister Gail and her husband Don. 

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In this update episode Caroline and Wayne have more of the evidence from Erin Patterson’s estranged husband Simon. He denies asking her if she used a food dehydrator “to poison them”. We also hear from members of a true crime Facebook group which Erin was a member of. She told women on the group her husband was coercive and controlling and she didn’t like his religious beliefs. We also hear about a row over his mother’s 70th birthday party. 

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Today Caroline and Wayne have the evidence of Erin Patterson’s husband Simon, He told the jury he was estranged from his wife but they had a friendly relationship until there was a row over school fees in 2022. A few months later he said he was invited to the lunch where members of his family were poisoned, but the night before he decided not to go. Erin Patterson denies three charges of murder and one of attempted murder. She says what happened was a tragic accident.

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Erin Patterson, the woman accused of murdering and attempting to murder her in-laws using poisonous mushrooms in Australia, has admitted repeatedly lying. As the case against her opened today in front of the jury, Caroline and Wayne have the details of how she invited her relatives over for lunch to discuss her health, and then allegedly deliberately poisoned them with death-cap mushrooms. She denies the charges against her and says she never intended to harm anyone.  But she admits that she lied repeatedly during the investigation.

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The woman accused of murdering and attempting to murder members of her husband’s family in July 2023 has finally gone on trial. Erin Patterson allegedly served a lunch which contained poisonous mushrooms at her home in the small town of Leongatha in Victoria in Australia. A week later three of the people who attended the lunch were dead, another was seriously ill. We’re in the courtroom with the details of what the jury were told as they were sworn in to try to case.

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