He invited them to lunch and served poisonous mushrooms. After the crime only spoke well of the victims
“I love them so much. They were always very good with me,” he said in an interrogation now revealed and conducted a week after the fateful, prepared by the 50-year-old Australian, which resulted in the death of three people.
Two after this lunch, Erin Patterson was considered guilty of the murder of her in-laws and an ex-husband’s aunt, as well as an attempted murder, as the aunt’s guest, husband, survived.
While awaiting the announcement of the sentence, facing a scenario of life imprisonment, the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, authorized the release of images of a 21 -minute interrogation, shown to the jury, held on 5 August 2023.
In the video, Erin Patterson details his relationship with the in -laws and why he invited them to lunch.
“I have no other family. They were always very good with me and I want to maintain this relationship with them.” Erin continued, without taking his eyes off the table: “They [ex-sogros] I have always told me that they would support me with love and emotional help, regardless of me and Simon to be separated “and therefore wanted to” know what happened. “After warning detectives that” it had never been through something before “, a few minutes after the detectives informing it from the death of two of the four victims for ingestion of the mushrooms they give by the scientific name of Amanita Phalloides.
Erin Patterson took his eyes out of the table and looked straight at the detective to say something physically impossible to happen: “They are the only grandparents my children have. And I want them to stay in my children’s lives. This is very important to me.”
Erin also said that her ex-husband couldn’t stand that she did well with his parents. “I believe Simon hated the fact that I still have a relationship with his parents, but I love them,” he said. “Nothing that Simon did [na relação entre os dois] will change the fact that they [ex-sogros] Being good and decent people who have never done anything wrong. ”
The lies Erin Patterson admitted to the Latrobe Valley Court of Magistrates in Victoria are also shaped in the video. “We found an instructions manual for an electric food dehydrator in a left down drawer in your kitchen. Do you know something about a dehydrator at your home?” The detective asked when he listed everything that had been confiscated in his woman’s housing. This question received a “no” as an answer.
A food dehydrator helps to conserve a food longer – in this case mushrooms, whose toxic properties are not compromised even after being dehydrated or cooked. “I have manuals of many things I have acquired over the years,” added Erin Patterson who, asked when he had a dehydrator, replied that “he might have had one a few years ago.” Nevertheless, he assured that he had never gone to catch mushrooms or never dehydrated food.
Recently, Erin Patterson admitted in court to have lied in his response because he is “only afraid,” but the defense reiterates that his client had no intention of killing anyone. The Australian threw to the trash the dehydrator used to dry mushrooms and restarted her mobile phone to exclude images of mushrooms and the dehydrator she used for the mushrooms that were later fatal.
On other issues, such as the mark of the Tablet confiscated at the suspect’s home, which was poorly identified by the police, the suspect denied having an iPad.
Erin Patterson, guilty of the death of his former drug adders and his ex-husband’s aunt, is now waiting for the sentence, risking being trapped in the death of three people.
