Suppressed Evidence Revealed After Patterson Convicted of Mushroom Murders

What the jury didn’t hear in the mushroom murder trial.
Suppressed Evidence Revealed After Patterson Convicted of Mushroom Murders
Erin Patterson in Melbourne, Australia, on April 15, 2025. James Ross/AAP Image via AP
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A tense silence fell over a small rural courtroom as Erin Patterson, facing a jury and fiddling with her fingers, delivered the first of many admissions.

“Did you have an interest in wild mushrooms?” defence barrister Colin Mandy SC asked on the killer’s second day in the witness box.