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So, I'm finally covering it. So, this is Aaron Patterson, and one day in the summer of 2023, she goes up to her
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aranged husband, her in-laws, and she's like, "Hey, I would love to have this lunch in a couple of weeks." The
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implication was there was like a health related thing going on that she needed to have a serious conversation about.
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So, her aranged husband, his parents, and his aunt and uncle, they all come together and they're like, "Okay, yes,
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of course. Like, we'll be there for you." Now, the night before this lunch is supposed to happen, her aranged
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husband, Simon, texts her and he's like, "I just like don't want to pretend like
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everything's fine. I'm happy to have a phone call with you to talk about whatever hell things, but I'm not coming
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to lunch." And she fires back in her text and is just is pretty frustrated. This might be one of the last meals that
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I can host like this. Like, it would be really disappointing if you weren't there. He doesn't come. So, the rest of
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them come over. They all sit around this table and they enjoy beef Wellington that Aaron had made them. And at some
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point during the dinner, she lets all of them know that she has cancer. By that night, when they all go home, everyone
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is getting super sick. This is Simon's parents, Don and Gail. They end up going to the hospital by ambulance. Simon ends
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up driving his aunt and uncle, Heather and Ian, to a different hospital so they can get treatment. But guess who's not
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sick? But the four of the people who had London, four or five are like on death's
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doorstep. And for some reason, Aaron is like, "I'm all right." Now, it doesn't take long to narrow down the source of
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everyone's illness to the beef Wellington that she made, specifically to the mushrooms. And what the doctors
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decide is they likely had what is what they know as death cap mushrooms. And they end up going and getting leftovers
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from her trash and determining like, "Yes, these poisonous mushrooms were in the beef Wellington." Pretty quickly,
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police start building a case against Aaron, saying like, "You intentionally poisoned your entire family to kill
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them." Or she says, "Oh no, I bought those from some Asian ger." By the way, I can't tell you which one. This is a
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terrible accident. But is it? Because this is CCTV footage of Aaron dumping the dehydrator. Oh, and by the way, she
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doesn't have cancer. She doesn't have many health issues. The police are saying, "You basically made a ruse to
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make everyone come over." She is saying that, "Well, I was having this other procedure. I made this up so that they
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would still like help me post surgery. The place that she said she booked it didn't even offer that kind of surgery."
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Now, this case just came to a close. She went to trial. She had some wild stories. And the really big question is
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why? We in our episode of Crime Junkie that comes out this week, August 4th, we dig into all of it. Um there is
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potentially a why. We go through all the details, all the evidence, her story. It
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is bananas. Don't miss the episode.