Overview

• Erin Patterson, 50, faces charges that she laced a beef Wellington with death cap mushrooms in July 2023, killing her in-laws Don and Gail Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson and severely injuring Pastor Ian Wilkinson
• Professor Stephen Warrillow testified that poisoning victims were flown to Melbourne for intensive care and that Don Patterson received an emergency liver transplant
• Prosecutors played Patterson’s police interview in which she denied owning a Sunbeam dehydrator and insisted she invited her relatives to lunch out of love
• Digital forensics officers traced Patterson’s phone near known mushroom-foraging sites, discovered death cap imagery on her home computer and revealed two Samsung Galaxy A23 devices were repeatedly reset or wiped
• Jurors reviewed Facebook and Signal messages showing Patterson’s exchanges with health officials and family members as authorities worked to pinpoint the source of the toxins