Don’t ever go round this ladies house for dinner!

robfosters · 14 Aug 2023 at 11:37

This lady managed to take out three of her relatives with a cooking mistake. Made the excellent choice of using death cap mushrooms in a beef wellington. I very much doubt she’d last very long on Masterchef. Nearly ended up doing herself in with her dinner too!

Australia mushroom deaths accidental, says cook

Erin Patterson tells police she is devastated and had no reason to harm her ex-husband's relatives.

www.bbc.co.uk

robfosters · 14 Aug 2023 at 12:28

Lightnix said:
"In her statement she also admitted lying to authorities about a food dehydrator seized by police from a local tip during investigations last week.

She said she had been questioned by her estranged husband as to whether she had poisoned his parents, and so panicked and disposed of the dehydrator as she was worried she might lose custody of their children."

I'm not sure saying she disposed of the dehydrator because it looked suspicious is the quite the defence she was looking for.

Also the bit about the estranged husband cancelling at the last minute got me. Did he suspect something, is he in on it, or did he genuinely cancel just as she was taking the wellington out and she couldn’t go back.

Oh, and the kids conveniently didnt like fungi, so she scraped their mushrooms off.

This really belongs in the things that make you go hmm thread

robfosters · 14 Aug 2023 at 13:33

Hades said:
Regarding the mushroom lady, her ex husband fell seriously ill the previous year after eating at hers.

Ex-husband of woman who cooked lethal mushrooms nearly died last year

Erin Patterson, 48, invited her former in-laws, Gail and Don Patterson, Gail's sister and her husband, Heather and Ian Wilkinson, for lunch at her Leongatha home, in Victoria's Gippsland.

www.dailymail.co.uk

And apparently she’s been worried for a long time about losing custody of her kids.

This is dodgy AF if you ask me

robfosters · 15 Aug 2023 at 11:28

Quick guide to the UK’s poisonous mushrooms, which actually include the deathcap

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2022/10/poisonous-mushrooms/

robfosters · 15 Aug 2023 at 20:54

I wonder if many dogs die after munching on these things

robfosters · 15 Aug 2023 at 22:43

shroomz said:
Nah death caps (or that whole family rather) have some very distinguishing features, it's one of the first things you learn to stay well clear of, at least in the UK you literally can't pick one by accident unless a complete noob.

Username checks out

robfosters · 2 Nov 2023 at 15:45

Charged. Saw this coming a mile off.

Suspected mushroom poisoning: Australian woman charged with three murders

An Australian woman is in custody after the deaths of three people at a lunch she served in July.

www.bbc.co.uk