The Mushroom Murder Trial: Erin Patterson’s True Crimes
The Mushroom Murder Trial Podcast delves into the case of Erin Patterson and delivers on-the-spot coverage of one of Australia’s most prominent criminal trials.
As seen on Revealed: Death Cap Murders Stan Original Documentary Series.
Follow us as we take you through this shocking and devastating Australian True Crime.
The story starts in Morwell, a town in southeastern Victoria, where the beef wellington meal takes place of an average Saturday afternoon.
We also follow the trial as the Department of Public Prosecutions versus Erin Trudi Patterson unfolds. The hearings were taking place at the La Trobe Magistrates’ Court, located about 152 kilometres east of Melbourne, the state’s capital.
The Mushroom Murder Trial Podcast follows the tragedy as it moves through the Australian legal system, examining the tragic aftermath of a family lunch involving Beef Wellington and mushrooms.
Ms Erin Patterson was pleading not guilty to all charges, which were being run under the direction of The Supreme Court of Victoria. She faced three murder charges and one attempted murder allegation following the deaths after the 29 July 2023 family lunch.
This is an absolutely shocking story of Australian True Crime.
The Mushroom Murder Trial Podcast will examine this tragedy as it makes its way through the Australian legal system and beyond.
Ms Erin Patterson, aged 50, from Leongatha, was a trainee mathematics teacher before this tragic incident. She now lives in a maximum security prison in Melbourne.
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The Mushroom Murder Trial: Erin Patterson’s True Crimes
Inside the Mushroom Murder Trial: Erin Patterson Facebook Secrets & Australia’s Most Chilling Lunch
Welcome to The Mushroom Murder Trial Podcast — your insider account of the shocking case that gripped Australia and the world. I’m Lisa, and I knew Erin Patterson before she became infamous as the Mushroom Killer.
In 2019, we crossed paths in a Facebook true crime group while investigating the Kelly Lane child killer case. Back then, Erin seemed like just another mum fascinated by crime. Today, she is convicted of murder and attempted murder after serving a fatal Beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms at a family lunch in Leongatha.
This podcast takes you behind the headlines and into the online world where Erin thrived. From hidden Facebook identities to fractured friendships, from her obsession with serial killers like Ivan Milat to her role in amateur sleuth groups, we uncover the digital breadcrumbs that foreshadowed her descent into darkness.
Through court reporting, personal insights, and analysis of social media crime culture, you’ll hear how a seemingly ordinary woman’s obsession blurred into real life — with deadly consequences.
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Erin Patterson Facebook Secrets from 2024 episode:
Greetings Daniel and welcome to the Erin Patterson podcast.
So what can we say:
Ms Patterson Liked to travel - she went to NZ when we met her in the group.
Her now-estranged Husband, an amateur photographer, had a travel blog and its overarching theme was:
“You can be homesick at home, or at home on the road: but you can never predict which way round it's going to be.”
They had a second-hand book store in Western Australia circa 2011. They drive across Australia to start a new phase of their lives: The business was Karri Books in Pemberton.
Books are a big thing in Erin’s family. Her mum, who died in 2019, was a children’s literature academic. Erin shared with us photos of her cleaning out a station wagon full of books after her mum died. She also spent a lot of time getting the family home ready , I’m Eden for sale.
Simon wrote of their WA journey: Driving 1,350km (850 mi) along a corrugated sandy track through the Australian desert is not the usual way for a family to move home across Australia. Especially when it is a four year old child travelling with his mum and dad. Even more so when the route goes past old nuclear bomb test sites, which continue as an active military testing range to this day.
“We drove it (The Anne Beadell) Highway is a bush track that crosses the Great Victoria Desert in central Australia. 2013 as we moved house from south-west to south-east Australia. Our household possessions followed, transported in containers by rail.”
The two had undergone seven bouts of IVF and their two children, a boy and a girl, were very much wanted. Erin was pregnant with both in her 40s.
But in the pursuit of telling a story about Erin Patterson, I’ve asked my true-crime BFF on to the podcast.
In summary, what we all know now:
- Mushroom chef Erin Patterson is on remand in a women's prison in Victoria - the notorious Dame Phyllis’s Frost center.
- The 49-year-old faces, but denies, charges of three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder in relation to a lunch of Beef Wellington pie with mushrooms
- Ms Patterson has denied the accusations
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