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I just don't want them to be panicked and stressed, unquote.

She eventually agreed and the children were kept overnight and found not to be ill, luckily.

So the implication landed quietly.

Erin, by her own account, had already known which part of the food was dangerous.

And she had scraped it away from her children's portions.

And she went public with a story.

And Erin told the media that Beef Wellington's had contained store-bought mushrooms along with dried ones from an Asian grocery shop somewhere around Mount Waverly.

"'I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones,' she told the media."

And she also addressed reporters in a doorstep interview at the Leongatha home after police described her as a suspect.

saying, quote unquote, I didn't do anything, she said, I loved them.

And health authorities moved quickly.

And over the course of a couple of days, a city of Menashe public health officer named Troy Schoenknecht hit every Asian and Indian grocery store he could find in Oakley and Clayton and Mount Waverly.

And not one sold anything matching her description.

And she had no name for the shop and no address and no way to send investigators anywhere near it.

So it looked like the shop didn't really exist.

And then the footage surfaced.

And CCTV showed Erin pulling into the Coonwara transfer station on August 2nd, four days after the lunch.

So her guests were fighting for their lives in intensive care units across Melbourne.

And she was at the local tip carrying a Sunbeam food dehydrator into the electronics waste shed.

And police would recover it from the dump two days later, and her fingerprints were on the device.