Overview

• Phone records presented by prosecutors placed Patterson in Loch and Outtrim after online reports of death cap mushrooms, a link she denies was related to foraging
• Forensic analysis of a recovered food dehydrator found her fingerprints and traces of death cap mushrooms despite her claim she dumped it in a panic
• Shopping receipts show she purchased 1.75 kilograms of mushrooms before the July 2023 lunch, more than twice the 700 grams the recipe required
• She disputed sending health authorities on a “wild goose chase” to find a nonexistent Asian grocer where she said she bought dried mushrooms
• She maintains the beef Wellington poisoning was an accident and denies any intent to harm her estranged in-laws