In the hours after dosing her lunch guests with death cap mushrooms, triple-murderer Erin Patterson played with Lego in her toy room.

Just as on that July 2023 evening, the 50-year-old mother of two has shown little emotion about taking the lives of Don Patterson, Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson , and attempting to murder pastor Ian Wilkinson .

On Monday, she will be sentenced for her heinous crimes, and forever be known as the mushroom cook, an intelligent introvert who thought she could outwit, outsmart and outplay the authorities.

What she didn’t expect was to see homicide squad Detective Leading Senior Constable Stephen Eppingstall and his team come knocking on the door of her rural, million-dollar Leongatha home and pick apart her wild scheme.

If Patterson is sentence

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