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Prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC built her case around what she called four calculated deceptions.

First, a fabricated cancer diagnosis invented to lure the victims to a table.

Second, death cap mushrooms placed into the Beep Wellingtons in quantities meant to kill.

And Rogers pointed to the photographs recovered from Patterson's tablet, which were death caps on a set of kitchen scales.

It doesn't get much more guilty than that.

And fungi specialist Tom May had examined them and identified the mushrooms as amanita phalloids, quote unquote, with a high level of confidence.

And Rogers argued Patterson had weighed the mushrooms to calculate the weight required for the administration of fatal dose for one person and the weight required for five fatal doses for five people.

unquote.

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.