Diddy on Trial: Australia’s ‘mushroom murder’ trial
episodePreviously titled “Australia’s ‘mushroom murder’ trial” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 28, 2026
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What is the bizarre triple murder trial about?
Hey Diddy on Trial Listeners, I'm Stephen Stockwell, just dropping into your feed to tell you about another podcast. This one is following a bizarre triple murder trial. From your friends at the ABC, take a listen.
It's the Australian murder case that's captured the attention of the world.
Erin Patterson invited four relatives over for a family lunch. Within days, three of them were dead. Now she's on trial for triple murder, the alleged weapon, poisonous mushrooms in a beef wellington.
Who is Erin Patterson and what happened at the family lunch?
We're in court every single day covering her trial for our podcast, Mushroom Case Daily.
the small town mystery that's gripped the nation and made headlines around the world. Just a week after four people sat down for a family lunch in rural Victoria, three of them were dead. On the menu was beef wellington, a pastry filled with beef and a pate made of mushrooms.
What were the events leading to the deaths after the lunch?
So what happened? Here's some of what we've learned in court so far. 50-year-old mum of two, Erin Patterson, invited her mother and father-in-law and her aunt and uncle-in-law over for lunch at her home in country Victoria. Within a day, the guests started getting sick, really sick. They were admitted to hospital.
Not long after that... Three people are dead and one man is fighting for his life this morning after a suspected mushroom poisoning in South Gippsland in Victoria.
What questions arose during the police investigation?
What followed was a police investigation and questions. Where did Erin get the mushrooms from? Why did she throw out her dehydrator? And why did she wipe her phone in the days after the lunch?
Ms Patterson admits she lied to police about foraging for mushrooms and getting rid of the dehydrator.
Erin maintains she never intended to kill anyone. She's pleaded not guilty and says that it was all a tragic mistake.
It's a tragedy what's happened. I love them.
I'm the ABC's court reporter Christian Silva. And I'm Stephen Stockwell. We are huge fans of the BBC's podcast Diddy on Trial and if you're enjoying it too, you're going to love Mushroom Case Daily.
We've been in court every day of this trial and we've never seen a case like it. There's been fake claims about cancer, family drama, clashes over religion and a poisonous beef wellington. This story has it all.
Mushroom Case Daily has quickly become the ABC's most popular podcast. We get hundreds of listener emails a day all over Australia and the world. Listeners are in group chats with their friends, families and co-workers. I get messages from people who overhear conversations about this pod on the train. Everyone is talking about this case.
A lot of these people send us really insightful questions about the trial and we do our best to answer them every day on the pod.
The trial of Aaron Patterson is a few weeks in, but there's so much more still to come. Mushroom Case Daily comes out every single day. It's in the evening here, which is in the morning in the UK, so it means you can enjoy it with a cup of tea as you get up. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts.
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