Overview

• The Supreme Court published two video exhibits on August 4, 2025, showing Patterson dumping a food dehydrator at Koonwarra Transfer Station and later handing over a mobile phone to police.
• Forensic tests recovered the dehydrator from the tip and confirmed it contained death cap mushroom residue along with Patterson’s fingerprints.
• Prosecutors allege Patterson provided investigators with a factory-reset “dummy phone” and remotely wiped the device while it was in police custody.
• A Morwell jury convicted Patterson on July 7 of murdering three in-laws and attempting to kill a fourth by serving beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms on July 29, 2023.
• A preliminary hearing to set Patterson’s pre-sentence date is slated for later in 2025, where she faces a mandatory life sentence under Victorian law.