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Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

The detectives also seized her desktop computer.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

A forensic officer ran keyword searches, including death cap, death cap mushroom, and poison, and the cached data turned up iNaturalist, a citizen science site, and people log where they've spotted different species of plants and fungi in the wild, including death caps.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And the trail stretched back more than a year before the lunch.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And someone using that machine had gone looking for death cat mushroom sightings around Moorabbin back in 2022.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And when confronted, Patterson said she couldn't recall visiting the site and then added, quote, well, somebody did.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And that somebody could have been me, unquote.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

Why are you even saying, just say you did it.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

What do you put...

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And her phone records pointed in that same direction.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And cell tower data placed her device near the town of Outrim on May 22nd, 2023.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And the day before, a mushroom specialist had flagged a death cap sighting on Nielsen Street through iNaturalist.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

Puzzle pieces are puzzling together.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And her phone also connected to towers near the town of Locke on April 28th, around the same time she purchased the dehydrator.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And photographs were pulled from her tablet with photos of death caps sitting right there on her kitchen scale.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And it was photographed like someone was measuring out portions.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

And as a cherry on top, or should I say mushroom,

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

The cancer she disclosed to her guests that Saturday afternoon was also fabricated.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

Doctors went through her medical records and an intensive care specialist couldn't find a single thing pointing to cancer.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

No diagnosis, nothing.

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 113 | The HORRIFIC Mushroom Murders

Erin's name was absent from the Victorian Cancer Registry, a database that captures every cancer diagnosis in the state.