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And she had typed them from her bed at Dandingnong Hospital, one last message to the family group chat, quote unquote, lots of love to you all.

And on October 4th, Heather had her own memorial service.

And more than 400 people came to say goodbye.

And Ian stood among those mourners, frail and still deep in recovery.

And it was his first public appearance since that lunch.

The Victoria Police assigned its homicide squad to the case on August 4th, 2023, the same day Gail and Heather had passed away.

And Detective Sergeant Luke Farrell led the search of Patterson's Leangatha home the following morning.

And over the next three months, investigators pulled at every single thread, and what they found dismantled the picture.

piece by piece.

Now, the first alarm had sounded at the hospital when Dr. Chris Webster told Erin that death cat mushrooms may have been involved in her guest's poisoning.

And he asked what kind of mushrooms she'd used in the meal.

And she said, Woolworths.

the supermarket chain.

And death cat mushrooms are not sold in supermarkets, obviously.

And those kinds of contradictions kept coming.

And Erin's medical results showed no clinical or biochemical evidence of Amanita poisoning.

And she had claimed to have eaten the same meal as her guests and to have become ill, but her blood work didn't reflect anything close to what the others were showing.

And even her presence at the hospital began to look strained in retrospect.

The nurse, Cindy Monroe, had treated the other lunch guests and was now treating Erin saying, quote, she didn't look unwell like Ian and Heather.

I recall Ian being so unwell, he could barely lift his head off the pillow.