Woman Kills Lunch Guests with "Store-Bought" Poisonous Mushrooms | Erin Patterson Case Analysis 

“All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”: Terry Pratchett

What I learned from this: If your lunch host has a different plate of food, push away from the table.

Her ex husband was admitted to hospital last year and almost died from food poisoning. Too many ‘coincidences ‘ in this story

"Simon has indicated he has no intention of reuniting with Erin. This may be because Simon has a desire to continue living." Hilarious!

I think it's awesome that supermarkets clearly label foods as fatal or non-fatal! It takes the guesswork out of it.

She didn’t even taste the food she was cooking ? Who serves a meal at a dinner party they themselves wouldn’t eat? guilty

We are all still looking for other people affected by these 'store purchased' deadly mushrooms. Incredible that Erin was so unlucky in what she grabbed. She also cries without any tears, and maybe that's more disturbing.

Given the value of the apartment she inherited, probably time to review, rather closely, the deaths of her parents, as well.

I'm an experienced forager. I have looked all over the the "fatal" mushroom section in the store and this mushroom is not sold commercially. This mushroom only looks edible if you are very poor at identification. No, you don't have to look far to find it. Amatoxin poisoning is a horrible, painful way to go as the cause of death is organ failure. She had to search to find these. Guilty!

(1) She claims she bought the mushrooms at a local store, but no one else in the community that shopped there experienced any poisoning. (2) Her guests ate the mushrooms, but she and her children ate a separate meal. (3) There is reason to suggest she may have poisoned her former husband, but he survived. (4) There is evidence that she studied poisonous mushroom information prior to the poisoning of her guests. Yep, she's innocent ! ! ! ! ! !

GUILTY! Erin wanted to take out the family of the husband and him too probably. Separate meal for her and her kids?! Bought the bad mushrooms at the store?! You've got to be kidding me!!! A real sicko.

She killed them on purpose. She avoided the food and so did her kids. CRYing with NO TEARS. Guilty AF!!!!!😮 👩‍⚖️

It's always weird when people "sob" and "cry" but there's no actual tears.

I always pass over the "fatal mushrooms" section at the grocery store. I wonder why she grabbed them?

She reminds me of Kathy Bates character in Misery. Here is a question ? How did the parents die. It seems unusual they are both dead. Erin is only in her 40s. Detectives need to go right into her past. Hey Hollywood, this would make a block buster of a movie.

I think she wanted all of them dead and only said she wanted to get back together to throw people off, including the victims. And thinking that her exact excuse would be "why would I do that, I called the meeting to get back together!" Imagine being so determined to kill someone that the whole time you are dehydrating the mushrooms and then preparing a meal you don't stop and say "what the hell am I doing?!?!" How do some people live with themselves?

The fact that she claims she bought them in a store is all the proof i need to know she is a lying liar who is also a murderer. Had she said she picked them herself and it was a horrific accident that would be believable.

Simon refuses to reunite with Erin, because he has a strong desire to continue living. The delivery of that statement was so dead-pan, but had perfect impact!

I think there are a lot of coincidences here that strongly suggest she intended to prepare a killer meal. Had it been accidental she would have eaten them herself. Less suspicious that her children didn’t eat them, as children can be picky eaters, but highly suspicious she’d prepare a lunch that she herself did not intend to eat.

How this woman is not in prison is beyond me.

Todds sense of humor slaps. it comes out of nowhere without even a slight change of his very serious tone. sometimes u have to wonder if he actually just said it.

8:56 mark, “Simon has indicated he has no intention to reunite with Erin. This may be because Simon has a desire to… continue living.” Smoothest passive aggressive burn 🏆

Dr Grande - just to inform you that this incident occurred in the winter of 2023 here in Australia not the summer as you stated at the beginning of your video. Our winters here are June, July and August. Thank you for your very interesting videos.

She now changed her story a couple of hours ago saying she did eat it and did get sick but was given liver protective medication. No proof of that… Also she immediately threw out the dehydrator she used with the mushrooms straight after cooking the meal . Guilty

The fact that she refuses to tell where she bought them is suspicious.

The idea of a meal with parents-in-law to reconcile a relationship is so so odd! It almost reminds me of a plot from Poirot or Columbo

she's being charged with 3 counts of murder and 5 of attempted murder. justice has caught up to her.

“The poisonous food section” of the supermarket! LOL! I really enjoy your videos, doctor, and loved the alliteration at the end of this one! Very informative and with your usual humor! Many thanks for posting!

To say she's a person of interest is the understatement of the year...

The fact that she refused to answer key questions such as where the mushrooms came from, and why she and her children ate a different meal, is highly suspicious.

Crying without tears 🤨...She knew exactly what she was doing! Oh my gosh, this lady is SO busted 😅

Dear Dr Grande, when I was studying natural medicine my teacher of herbal medicine knew someone who was an expert in mushroom collection - he died from collecting, cooking up and eating poisonous mushrooms. Mushroom collection is apparently quite tricky.

I love not only that Dr Grande covers Australian stories, but also that he pronounces ‘Melbourne’ correctly!

There are two categories of mushroom poisoning incident: Incidents where the chef eats the food, and incidents where they dont. Every incident where they dont has turned out to be a murder in my personal experience.

I can confirm our local grocery store clearly labels the fatal mushrooms 😵🥰😝

I have poison mushrooms during late summer in my 5 acre yard. They pop up huge right after a heavy rain. We put on rubber gloves and pull them and get rid of them right away. It's amazing how they are nowhere to be seen and then the next day they are there and the size of a cup saucer.

Dr. Grande, your emotionless but yet still somehow menacing stare and talcum-dry sense of humor are nightmare fuel. Keep it coming.

I can't stop laughing! Not at this horrible situation, but Dr. Grande's sense of humor. You NEVER let me down.

Death Cap mushrooms are mycorrhizal, growing symbiotically with the roots of oak trees. They typically sprout underneath the edge of the oak canopy. Due to a large root systems Death Caps can be found aways from the trunk. The cap has a yellow to greenish sheen that can vary to olive or brown hue. Gills and spores are white, small bulbous cup at the base and remnants of a skirt on the stipe. Other mushrooms may have similar coloring but none grow symbiotically with oak. All commercial growers would easily be able to spot the Death Cap and I bet youd be hard pressed to find an example. There is now an antidote called Silibinin an extract of milk thistle seeds, along with gastric decontamination. A deadly dose is 0.1 milligrams for every kilo of weight. With all this info and what appeared to be fake crying, makes her look like she is lying. Excuse the rant 👍🤙👌✌️🕊

One of my favorite places to forage for mushrooms is in grocery stores. Not everyone thinks to look there. I still suck at telling which of the mushrooms in the store are poisonous. I know it's incredibly amateurish of me to wish it was easier to know if all the mushrooms I buy are edible. Maybe they can have starter supermarkets for entry-level foragers like me that only sell the edible ones. They'd make a killing. Also no idea why they won't let me bring my new truffle-trained hog. I spent all that money getting him then transporting him all the way from Italy and they dont let me bring him into the store. So unfair

Why would you have a lunch with your in-laws to convince them you and your husband should get back together? Are they teenagers? Or in some arranged marriage situation? I've never heard of this type of luncheon.

I’m in Melbourne, this is a huge case and thank you for bringing all the information together. News tonight advised that the Pastor is now in a stable position.

I'm from Aust. Erin said she purchased the mushrooms from a shop in Melbourne. But she can't recall what shop or even what suburb the shop was in. She said she gave her children the left over Beef Wellington the next day, but scraped off the mushrooms, as the kids didn't like them. But she cudn't have scraped off the poisonous juices, I don't believe that one for a minute. Also it was known that she wanted to keep the house she was living in. I looked very very hard at the videos of her "crying" & could not see a single tear, nor red eyes. I have trouble speaking when crying from grief, but she easily spoke quite well while she was "crying". Everyone in Aust thinks she's guilty, I think because her body language & her "grief" face are off. It's off because it's not real. I laughed out loud several times during your excellent analysis. 😅 The deaths of those poor people was an extremely cowardly despicable act. They died horribly.

Dr Grande, your alliteration and humor in this video made my day!

No way that wasn't a purposeful murder. Such a top meal, and she or her kids didn't eat it ? No doubt it was murder.

She disposed of her food dehydrater at the local tip ,after the poisoning. Cops found it . Her ex believes he may have been poisoned in the past .

This is the first time I've come across this channel.. this guy's dry humor and sarcasm remind me of Matt Walsh.. 😂 I love this guy! Subscribed!

I live in a country area of Australia. Never have I seen poisonis mushrooms for sale. The supermarket where she bought the normal mushrooms would have digital info of what she bought. She told police that she bought other mushrooms at a Chinese supermarket but could not recall where this shop was or when she did it. The dehydrator that she used was thrown away at the town tip and police were looking for it. So as far as I can see she foraged for the deadly nightcap mushrooms in her area and dehydrated them. Hence the reason she got rid of it. Probably in the suitcase she carried from her house. In one of her houses a painter who was employed to paint the house came forward to the police and showed them pictures he took of a wall where she had written all these weird things One of the things were death to her parents in law. She told the painter that the kids did it but he said kids would not write things like that. He felt really uncomfortable when he found the wall. She’s guilty and kids should be removed from her before she kills them

I believe there also needs to be an investigation into Erin’s parents deaths in 2019, unless they were in a fatal accident both parents dying in the same year is unusual.

The whole incident is very suspicious from the moment she cooked and served a different meal for her and her children. 😮😢

That alliteration in your conclusion was pure poetry, incredible!! Interesting case as well

Love it, Todd your sense of humor is growing. Keep up the good work.

Death Angel mushrooms. Curiously, most homicides by poisoning are done by women. The fact that she and her children avoided the "laced" dish speaks of homicidal intent.

A few year ago after vacation- our dog got so sick, it was many days of hell and the vet couldn't figure it out. The people who watched our dog denied anything unusual, denied our dog was sick (thought maybe some kind of extreme anxiety, stop eating, puking, diarrhea, shaking/tremors hair falling out, crying dog pain whimpering etc) eventually she recovered 💕... I went over to their house and looked in their yard and I found mushrooms that looked exactly like this in the corner of their fenced in yard (google imagined them, death caps!)... I am convinced to this day that my dog was eating poisonous mushrooms in their yard when we were gone, Luckily she survived!

She’s obviously a poisoner. I was also poisoned at a time during the past several years. It’s strange but, some people are so vile, as to poison people and make it seem as though their victims are suffering “illness” from the pandemic. What horrible people. I’m glad I have at least one good friend…

"Everybody knows supermarkets clearly mark their muchrooms as fatal and non fatal" Almost missed that with his dry sense of humor.

There's absolutely no way they could have been store bought! There would have been a huge food recall.

One year in Hawaii Deathcaps grew all over the place in huge numbers. My landlord did not think they were poisonous. He took a very tiny piece of one, about the size of a pea. He almost died.

The testing of packaged mushrooms, both imported & local in Australia is very stringent to avoid any poisonous ones. And there's no record of anybody ever being poisoned by dried packaged mushrooms. Surely there would have been many more cases of poisoning if she had bought them at an Asian grocery store as claimed. She then said she couldn't remember where the store was, and also disposed of a food dehydrator at the garbage dump a day after serving the deadly meal. She claimed to forget about having disposed of it.

I love your dry sense of humour. And your ‘Hitchcockian’ reference.

I hope the police is also looking into her parents' death and how her ex husband was hospitalized with similar symptoms before. This woman is sussy af.

“This may because he has a desire to continue living”… that’s why I’m going to avoid to mushroom foragers… they seem all cute and quirky with their baskets filled with mushrooms but their hearts are filled with HATE. 😂

I lived in a foster home when I was a kid. My foster mother picked mushrooms in the pasture and served them for lunch almost every day in the summer. It took me awhile but when I saw no one got sick, I started eating them too. They were very good and always fresh.I ate them raw on sandwiches mostly. To this day, I can't tell you how June knew which ones were the right ones. She was a tough Christian woman and I trusted her!

If she deliberately served, and watched people eat death caps, she's a cold hearted fiend. Premeditated murder! Maybe not the first time either..

My work colleague had lost her sister in law to one of these poisonous mushrooms, and her brother was in a fatal condition. The wife was very much into wild mushrooms and was very knowledgeable, she'd go off mushroom picking this day as she had for years and collected her mushrooms for a dinner she was preparing for her family. She absolutely adored her husband and their children and would often arrange meal gatherings. On this particular occasion she prepared the lunch only to receive a call that her family couldn't make it to lunch and would rearrange. However, her husband said that they would still eat the meal since she'd prepared it. Hours later the wife was seriously ill with nausea and stomach pain, her husband called the emergency services who told him NOT to induce vomiting. Unfortunately this was a big mistake as vomiting would have helped to release some of the toxins frim her stomach. She was rushed to hospital but sadly died. Her husband within hours would also become very sick too and was rushed into ED. He survived thankfully but has never recovered psychologically. Even though she knew her mushrooms, she'd picked some that looked like ones she'd normally eat not realising they weren't. It was so tragic.

Before we get too far into this thing, she inherited a million-dollar town home after her parents passed away? Like, natural causes passed away? Or, more like, ya know, murder them, passed away. I'm just starting the show and already I have things to share. Man, I love the internets.

Oh my goodness! Some of the one sentence remarks you made were brilliant, and love the ending. I find it very hard to believe this woman in innocent.

Your sense of humor is amazing. I almost spat out my drink with some of your wry delivery is everything.

One small correction Dr G. Here in Australia, July isn't summer, but winter. I always enjoy your videos, humour and perspective on cases. Thanks for all the effort you put into your material.

She should have said she foraged them herself and due to inexperience accidently picked death caps. It would have still gotten her a charge, but not murder. When she tried to claim they came from a store, she was immediately made into a murderer, because stores don't sell death caps. She may have gotten involuntary manslaughter or negligent homicide.

I can’t help but wonder if her ex-husband’s prior bouts of sickness were her doing dosage testing- or just failing to kill him each time, so she continued increasing the amount.

"This would be bad for business - mostly because of the dying part..." 😂😂😂 Thanks. That made the start of today much funnier.

I live in Australia and this case has been all over the news. However I still got more information from you than the media has released. Thank you Dr Grande 👏

Her husband was in a coma 12 months ago with similar symptoms. She must have bought store bought mushrooms back then too. Interestingly when she told the police she bought them from the shop they didnt do a recall on the mushrooms so it sounds like the police dont believe her

The good news is the mushrooms are on sale at the supermarkets here in NSW. Seems like people don't fancy them all of a sudden!

"Simon has indicated he has no intention of reuniting with Erin. This may be because Simon has a desire to continue living." HAHAHAHA. For you to say this and many other things in this video in such a nonchalant way and with no expressions on your face is pure brilliance. You should do stand up comedy! 🤣😂😅

She made the food, yet didn't eat any and made sure her kids didn't... you can bet it was intentional. She's only sorry about getting caught. She either saw them as an obstacle in the way of getting what she wanted and felt the need to eliminate them or she thought they were to blame for her failed marriage and wanted revenge. I can't believe she's not been brought up on charges yet, especially after finding that dehydrator.

Another interesting factor that I don’t see mentioned often is that these mushrooms have been out of season here for about 2 months now. My guess is that this is where that disposed dehydrator comes into play. To me it indicates some degree of premeditation.

I'm guessing 4-7 days before the police file charges against her. It's just a matter of getting enough info for the prosecutor.

You know you watch too much Dr. Grande when you're waiting to see if he looks to the left or to the right when he says, "only speculating on a situation like this."

"Everyone knows that supermarkets clearly mark their mushrooms as fatal and non-fatal..." Love it and proves that even doctors have a great sense of humour ! 🙂

I personally think Erin wanting to get back with her ex and getting everyone together because of it was just a ruse to get them all round to eat her mushrooms, including the ex. The fact she and her children did not eat the mushrooms speaks volumes. When I cook for a group, I usually cook something everyone can/will eat so the fact the most important people to her (her kids and herself) did not eat it and were the ONLY people not to eat it is very odd. The fact she lied about buying the shrooms at a grocery store is a red flag - unless she can provide some reciept, I call BS. Guilty af imo.

More details than I've found anywhere in the states.. I live in Maryland. Imagine spending all of that time on beef wellington and not eating it.. not suspicious at all! Hmm, well unless you don't eat meat. This is so horrific and disturbing beyond words. Her parents died the same year? Interesting. Where on earth did she get these mushrooms?

This was once again a Magnificent Monologue about Mushrooms 👏

She definitely is a serial killer.... This isn't accidental... She knew exactly what she was doing. Feeding her children something diff ( along with herself) proves it was intentional

As an Aussie, I've heard about this however I avoid the news like the plague (it sets off extreme anxiety). This story is weird, she is weird & I'm sure it'll all only become weirder. Dr Grande, despite the deaths, you totally crack me up. I'll get my current news from you in future. Rest In Peace to the victims ❤🙏🕊️

Earlier this month, a person close to the family said Patterson was an “experienced fungi forager”. According to the Daily Mail Australia, Patterson was known to often and expertly pick wild mushrooms around Victoria’s Gippsland region A friend of Patterson’s family revealed Erin was “very good at foraging” and identifying different mushroom varieties ..But brought the ones she used from a unnamed Asian supermarket she claims ? sussy as .

Congratulations Dr. Grande, on your ever growing subscribers. I watch all your videos, your hard and well done work shows. Thank you

I find her crocodile tears to be very disturbing. Thanks for your excellent coverage of the topic, and I love your sense of humour!

She knew her former in laws didn’t think she was good enough for their son. Perhaps she didn’t want them influencing him. Thank you for the interesting video Dr. Grande!

Enjoyed this and loved the tongue twister at the end 😂 You have a great way of reporting articles!

Alliteration is always aright and allowed. Thanks for the video Dr. Grande.

Wow! I’m so impressed that you are onto this case so quickly! I will just add that here in Australia we are still in our winter, so for us it occurred in Winter of 2023. You’ve unearthed so much more information than is covered in our news, and it’s added valuable insight. Thank you Dr. G. ❤

As an Aussie I’m so impressed you said “Melbun” and not “Mel-born”

I appreciate Dr. Grande's sly humor as much as his evaluations of these individuals. I think his jibes are even funnier because he never smiles when he's delivering them.

If the poison ones were from a shop, there would be a recall of mushroom, and other unrelated poisoning deaths.

In this economy, if I'm at the store and the fatal mushrooms happen to be on sale, I stock up.

I think any deaths around her need a second look... inherited the house? This one might end up being on Forensic Files :-) Thanks again, Dr. Grande!

Early 2000's I knew someone who got served poisonous mushrooms at a Berkeley, CA. restaurant. He ended up fine. That's all I recall. This woman is so guilty she's growing mold spores all over her.

Let me guess, if Erin Patterson's ex-husband and his parents are all dead, the two kids will inherit all their assets, and since Erin is the kids only parent, she will have sole custody of the kids and in turn control of all the assets. I think authorities should also look into the death of Erin's parents to make sure there is nothing suspicious.