Overview

• She testified she enhanced a bland beef Wellington by adding mushrooms she believed were dried from an Asian supermarket.
• Patterson admitted she fabricated a cancer diagnosis to gain sympathy and draw her estranged husband’s family to the July 2023 lunch.
• She conceded that foraged wild mushrooms may have contaminated the dish and said she disposed of her dehydrator and wiped her phone afterward.
• Patterson described self-inducing vomiting after the meal and believes the act prevented her from suffering severe poisoning.
• With her testimony concluded, prosecutors are intensifying cross-examination as she faces life imprisonment and up to 25 years for attempted murder if convicted.