{"id":30053,"date":"2025-06-04T23:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/woman-on-trial-for-poison-mushroom-killings-says-she-was-trying-to-fix-bland-meal\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T23:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:26:38","slug":"woman-on-trial-for-poison-mushroom-killings-says-she-was-trying-to-fix-bland-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/woman-on-trial-for-poison-mushroom-killings-says-she-was-trying-to-fix-bland-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman on trial for poison mushroom killings says she was trying to fix &#8220;bland&#8221; meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An Australian woman <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/poison-mushroom-murder-trial-erin-patterson-testifies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">accused of serving poisonous death cap mushrooms<\/a><\/span> in a dish that killed three of her four guests who ate it spoke Wednesday about the incident and detailed how she planned the meal.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in the Supreme Court case in the state of Victoria say <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/toxic-mushroom-murders-trial-erin-patterson-husband-testifies-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Erin Patterson<\/a><\/span>, 50, lured her guests to lunch in July 2023 with a lie about having cancer, before deliberately feeding them toxic fungi. But her lawyers say the tainted beef Wellington that Patterson served was a tragic accident caused by a mushroom storage mishap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patterson denies murdering her estranged husband&#8217;s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and their relative, Heather Wilkinson. The mother of two also denies attempting to murder Heather&#8217;s husband, Ian Wilkinson, who survived the meal. If convicted, Patterson faces life in prison for murder and 25 years for attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare step for a defendant charged with murder, Patterson chose to speak in her own defense at her trial this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, she spoke publicly for the first time about the fateful lunch and offered her explanations on how she planned the meal and didn&#8217;t become sick herself.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/04\/7ae68b28-d71a-4c34-95d4-4b0e8e47593c\/thumbnail\/620x413\/c4ebaaa10550310dcc88acfc520ee92c\/ap25153304274515.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf#\" alt=\"Australia Mushroom Murder Trial \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/04\/7ae68b28-d71a-4c34-95d4-4b0e8e47593c\/thumbnail\/620x413\/c4ebaaa10550310dcc88acfc520ee92c\/ap25153304274515.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/04\/7ae68b28-d71a-4c34-95d4-4b0e8e47593c\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/d6d1fb4c2df5ac943d985734e926b27a\/ap25153304274515.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Erin Patterson, the woman accused of serving her ex-husband&#8217;s family poisonous mushrooms, is photographed in Melbourne, Australia, on April 15, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                James Ross\/AAP Image via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Adding more mushrooms to a &#8220;bland&#8221; meal<\/h2>\n<p>No one disputes that Patterson served death cap mushrooms to her guests for lunch in the rural town of Leongatha, but she says she did it unknowingly.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson said Wednesday she splurged on expensive ingredients and researched ideas to find &#8220;something special&#8221; to serve. She deviated from her chosen recipe to improve the &#8220;bland&#8221; flavor, she said.<\/p>\n<p>She believed she was adding dried fungi bought from an Asian supermarket from a container in her pantry, she told the court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I think that there was a possibility that there were foraged ones in there as well,&#8221; she told her lawyer, Colin Mandy. Patterson had foraged wild mushrooms for years, she told the court Tuesday, and had put some in her pantry weeks before the deaths.<\/p>\n<h2>The accused says she &#8216;shouldn&#8217;t have lied&#8217; about cancer<\/h2>\n<p>Patterson, who formally separated from her husband Simon Patterson in 2015, said she felt &#8220;hurt&#8221; when Simon told her the night before the lunch that he &#8220;wasn&#8217;t comfortable&#8221; attending.<\/p>\n<p>She had earlier told his relatives that she&#8217;d arranged the meal to discuss her health. Patterson admitted this week that she never had cancer \u2014 but after a health scare, she told her in-laws she did.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, Patterson said she intended to have weight loss surgery. But she was too embarrassed to tell anybody and planned to pretend to her in-laws that she was undergoing cancer treatment instead, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was ashamed of the fact that I didn&#8217;t have control over my body or what I ate,&#8221; a tearful Patterson said Wednesday. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to tell anybody, but I shouldn&#8217;t have lied to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Patterson says she threw up her mushroom meal<\/h2>\n<p>The accused said she believes she was spared the worst effects of the poisoned meal because she self-induced vomiting shortly after her lunch guests left. She had binged on most of a cake and then made herself throw up \u2014 a problem she said she had struggled with for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson also said she believes she had eaten enough of the meal to cause her subsequent diarrhea. She then sought hospital treatment but unlike her lunch guests, she quickly recovered.<\/p>\n<p>At the hospital where her guests&#8217; health was deteriorating, her estranged husband asked her about the dehydrator she used to dry her foraged mushrooms, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that how you poisoned my parents?&#8221; she said Simon Patterson asked her.<\/p>\n<p>Growing afraid she would be blamed for the poisoning and that her children would be taken from her, Patterson said she later disposed of her dehydrator. She told investigators she&#8217;d never owned one and hadn&#8217;t foraged for mushrooms before.<\/p>\n<p>While still at the hospital, she insisted she&#8217;d bought all the mushrooms at stores, even though she said she knew it was possible that foraged mushrooms had accidentally found their way into the meal.<\/p>\n<p>She was too frightened to tell anyone, Patterson said.<\/p>\n<p>Also later, Patterson said she remotely wiped her cellphone while it sat in an evidence locker to remove pictures of mushrooms she&#8217;d foraged.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors argued in opening their case in April that she poisoned her husband&#8217;s family on purpose, although they didn&#8217;t suggest a motive. 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