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And third, a staged hospital visit meant to mimic poisoning symptoms she never had.

And fourth, weeks of deliberate evidence destruction designed to keep anyone from finding out what she had done.

The definition of premeditation and post tampering.

And then Erin took the stand and she testified for eight

days, and she gave ground where she had to.

Death cat mushrooms must have been in the meal, because she had foraged for wild mushrooms since 2019, and she had bought the dehydrator, then dumped it while her guests fought for their lives.

and the cancer announcement was a fabrication.

And she had factory reset her phone to hide photos of mushrooms and the dehydrator, and the hostile Facebook messages about Dawn and Gale were hers, though she dismissed them as simply venting.

But on everything else, she held firm.

She had never deliberately sought out death cat mushrooms, and she had never traveled to Locke to collect them, and she had never used iNaturalist to track where they grew, and she never weighed them to calculate a fatal death.

And on the cancer claim, she offered an alternative.

She had led the group to believe she might be needing some treatment, she said, but the real issue had been an embarrassment over a gastric bypass consultation.

And prosecutor Rogers pressed her and she suggested Erin had never planned to account for the cancer story because she had never expected to need to.

Quote, because you thought that the lunch guests would die, unquote.

And quote unquote, that's not true, Erin would answer.

but it is.

You felt like you didn't have to account for any of this because you thought all of your victims would die, but luckily one did not, and thank goodness he didn't.

And the prosecution also called Simon Patterson to the stand, and he walked the jury through the crumbling marriage, the private hostility, and the night he had turned down the lunch invitation.

And then Ian Wilkinson testified as well, the only person who had eaten the mushrooms at that table and survived.

And he recounted the gray plates, the odd colored plate Erin had carried to her own seat, and the offer to help serve that she had turned away.