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The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace follows the case of Erin Patterson as she stands accused of murdering three guests who attended a lunch at her property in the Latrobe Valley in 2023. She denies all charges. Co-hosted by Nine reporter Penelope Liersch and The Age Crime & Justice Reporter Erin Pearson, this podcast brings to life a trial that has grabbed global headlines.

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50:41

'Fifth deception'

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/06/17

The Crown closes its case, accusing Patterson of engaging in multiple calculated deceptions and telling lies even when her lunch guests were gravely ill. Rogers also accused Patterson of trying to play the jury.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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37:02

Erin Patterson's final words

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/06/13

During the accused killer's final hours on the stand, more questions are raised around gastric bypass surgery and an 11th hour bid for a fresh police statement challenges her account. Erin Patterson also maintains she fed fatal lunch leftovers to her children, and answers three final accusations from the prosecution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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37:33

Gastric sleeve and “two faces”

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/06/11

The accused disputes claims she was never sick. She is also pressed on possible weight loss surgery and if she has “two faces”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:40

'You thought the lunch guests would die’

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/06/05

During cross examination, Erin Patterson denies telling relatives she had cancer. She also denies ever thinking her cancer lie could remain a secret because her lunch guests would be dead.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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33:33

‘I just panicked’

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/06/04

Erin Patterson gives evidence that she began to think foraged mushrooms she’d dried in the weeks before the lunch could have ended up in the meal. Telling the court her estranged husband asked if she'd used her dehydrator to poison his parents - and that she panicked, dumping the kitchen appliance and resetting a phone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27:58

Foraging for tasty mushrooms

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/06/03

The accused killer tells the jury she loved mushrooms and developed an interest in foraging for them during covid lockdowns. She admits there must have been death cap mushrooms in the meal she served.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:46

The accused killer speaks

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/06/02

Erin Patterson gives evidence. The accused killer chokes back tears as she recalls a “traumatic birth”. She describes her mother in-law as patient and supportive and reveals she wanted to convert Simon Patterson to atheism before her own spiritual experience.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23:07

Subway CCTV and police expenses

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/30

The lead investigator is quizzed on exactly what CCTV from the evening of the fatal lunch shows. He also tells the jury, pulling all of the accused killer’s phone records was too expensive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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37:08

A missing phone and lunch shopping

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/29

The lead detective continues his evidence cataloguing phones connected to the accused killer, noting one has never been found. Erin Patterson’s shopping receipts and medical records are also shown to the jury.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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33:18

The police interview

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/27

The jury watches a police interview with the accused killer. When asked why she hosted her ex partner’s family for lunch, Erin Patterson replies ‘I love them’ and denies owning a food dehydrator. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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39:17

Texts with an accused killer

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/27

A public health official tells the court she had trouble reaching Erin Patterson on the phone as she tried to find the source of the poisoning. The jury hears the pair exchanged text messages and a digital forensics officer faces questions from the defence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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21:14

The fight for life

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/27

An intensive care specialist tells the court how doctors fought to save the four lunch guests' lives, and recalls how close Ian Wilkinson came to death.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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32:59

'I want nothing to do with them’

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/22

Facebook messages discovered on a phone found in Erin Patterson’s home are read to the jury, calling Simon Patterson a ‘deadbeat’ and his parents ‘a lost cause’. The court is also shown photos of mushrooms in a dehydrator and screenshots of cancer information, taken from a tablet police say was seized from Patterson’s home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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13:53

Death cap webpage

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/21

The jury is shown internet history taken from devices seized from Erin Patterson's home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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20:33

Cell tower expert challenged and servo CCTV played

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/21

A phone tower expertanswersdozens of questions about the limitations of mobilephonerecords.Service stationfootageisalsoplayed to the jury,showing theaccused killer visiting atoilet area.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:41

Phone pings and deaths cap sightings

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/20

A phone tower expert says Erin Patterson’s mobile possibly pinged in the same areas where death cap mushrooms were sighted. A poisons expert tells the jury she posted about death caps in Gippsland in the months before the lunch.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:11

Toxic test result and a bestselling cookbook

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/16

A forensic expert tells the jury mushroom toxins were found in leftovers seized from the fatal lunch. Another witness says Erin Patterson told her she cooked up the beef Wellington using the help of the RecipeTin Eats cookbook.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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3:09

Juror 84

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/15

In this bonus episode, the courthearsa juror in the murder trialisdismissed over concerns they may have discussed the case with friends and family.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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19:51

A dumped dehydrator

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/15

A second fungi expert gives evidence that she found no pieces of death cap mushroom in a beef Wellington sample. The jury is also shown CCTV from a Gippsland rubbish tip and photographs of a food dehydrator the prosecution says police recovered from inside an e-waste bin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:25

Amanita phalloides

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace ·

2025/05/14

A mushroom expert gives the jury a lesson on Amanita Phalloides, the scientific name for death cap mushrooms. In his evidence the mycologist also recalls posting on a website photos and a location, showing where the deadly fungi were growing in Gippsland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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