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The woman who allegedly killed her ex-parents-in-law after a mushroom lunch has broken her silence after a disturbing photo emerged.
Erin Patterson, 48, hosted the now-infamous lunch at her home in Victoria's southeast Gippsland region in Australia, on July 29, which left three of her ex-in-laws dead and one man in a coma after suspected mushroom poisoning. Now a tradesman has revealed he took a picture of a so-called "death wall" in the home Ms Patterson used to share with her now estranged husband, Simon.
The unnamed man said he was paid to remove disturbing graffiti from the interior wall in the home and it included pictures of gravestones and scribbles with themes of death and destruction drawn in black and red ink, according to Daily Mail Australia that saw the photos. "It was disturbing. We called it the death wall", the man said. In response, Ms Patterson said she has been painted "as an evil witch." She continued: "The media is making it impossible for me to live in this town."
Gail and Don Patterson who died after the meal (Nine)The tradesman says the drawings were done by the Patterson's daughter and he said it was "pretty disturbing for mum to let the kids draw on their dining room wall." The poster-sized drawings featured two tombstones with daggers and decapitated heads, along with scribbles and dark quotes, including the words: 'You are dead by the sword'.
Another has the date August 1, 2021 with the words "you will die within a year" written underneath. One of the tombstones appears to say "Grandma R.I.P." while the third reads "ME R.I.P." Another person who saw the images described them as "satanic."
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Ms Patterson is accused of inviting her estranged ex-husband Simon Patterson to their former family home for lunch with his parents Gail and Don Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, and her pastor husband Ian on Saturday, July 29 as part of a church mediation. Her ex-husband did not attend but the others did. Heather, Don and Gail all died while Ian is still fighting for his life in hospital.
Ms Patterson says she bought the suspected toxic fungi at a supermarket and an Asian grocery store and was herself hospitalised after eating the lunch. But Daily Mail Australia revealed that she was an experienced fungi forager known to pick wild mushrooms around Victoria's Gippsland region, a source close to the family said. A friend of the Patterson family said Erin was "very good at foraging" and identifying different mushroom varieties.