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<v Speaker 1>It's time for Drue Crime Tuesday. The story is true,

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<v Speaker 1>sounds true? No, it sounds made up. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>Perry and Shannon present True Crime. Well, this is this

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<v Speaker 1>case out of Australia is being overshadowed by the court

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<v Speaker 1>cases that we have going on here in America. We've

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<v Speaker 1>got the Karen Reid case, We've got the Harvey Weinstein case,

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<v Speaker 1>We've got the Shan Didi Combs case. We've got all

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<v Speaker 1>these cases that are going on and sucking a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of attention away from what's going on in Australia. This

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<v Speaker 1>is a tiny little town, a tiny a few hours

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<v Speaker 1>outside of Melbourne, the small town of Morewell is where

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<v Speaker 1>this trial is taking place. But the crime that they're

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<v Speaker 1>hearing about took place in the even smaller town of

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<v Speaker 1>Leongatha in July of twenty twenty three. Aaron Patterson, a

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<v Speaker 1>fifty year old mom of a couple of kids, is

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<v Speaker 1>facing three counts of murder murder for serving toxic beef

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<v Speaker 1>Wellington to relatives at her house. Now, she was a

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<v Speaker 1>strange from her husband Simon at the time, and he

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<v Speaker 1>was invited to the lunch, but he didn't show up,

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<v Speaker 1>so he and Aaron invited her in laws, Don and

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<v Speaker 1>Gail Patterson Gail's sister, so this would have been her

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<v Speaker 1>aunt and uncle in law, Heather Wilkinson, and Ian Wilkinson.

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<v Speaker 1>Three of those four people died as a result of

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<v Speaker 1>eating that beef. Wellington, Don and Gail the mother and

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<v Speaker 1>father in law, and then Gail's sister Heather the aunt

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<v Speaker 1>in law, all died. Ian Ate but survived even though

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<v Speaker 1>he spent several weeks in the hospital. And again the

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<v Speaker 1>estranged husband, Simon, was supposed to be at the lunch,

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<v Speaker 1>but he backed out. Now all of this has to

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<v Speaker 1>do with poisonous mushrooms. Patterson had said that when COVID hit,

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<v Speaker 1>she started foraging for mushrooms on her own, just kind

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<v Speaker 1>of a hobby during lockdown of March of twenty twenty,

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<v Speaker 1>and the question was, well, who knew you had this hobby,

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<v Speaker 1>and she said, only my kids, which is weird. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>we've been told for a very long time don't just

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<v Speaker 1>take mushrooms out of the wild and cook them and

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<v Speaker 1>eat them. They can kill you, she says. When she

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<v Speaker 1>would forage for these mushrooms, she would cut a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit of one, fry it up with some butter and

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<v Speaker 1>eat it. She said, they taste good. She said she

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<v Speaker 1>didn't get sick. She also fed some of these foraged

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<v Speaker 1>mushrooms to her kids. She chopped them up very small

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<v Speaker 1>so they wouldn't pick them out of the dishes that

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<v Speaker 1>she was making, the curries, the pastas, and the soups,

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<v Speaker 1>and developed a taste for exotic mushroom varieties. She even

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<v Speaker 1>joined a mushroom lover's Facebook group. She even bought a

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<v Speaker 1>dehydrator of food dehydrated to preserve these mushrooms. And when

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<v Speaker 1>asked by her own attorney, did she accept that that

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<v Speaker 1>beef Wellington she made in July of twenty three did

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<v Speaker 1>include death cap mushrooms? She said, yes, yes, she knows

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<v Speaker 1>she did it, but it was entirely an accident, she said. So.

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<v Speaker 1>She told her lawyer most of the mushrooms that she

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<v Speaker 1>used that day in that beef Wellington came from local supermarkets,

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<v Speaker 1>and she agreed she might have put them in the

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<v Speaker 1>same container as some of the wild mushrooms that she

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<v Speaker 1>had foraged. And there were even others that came from

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<v Speaker 1>an Asian food store that she didn't necessarily know the

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<v Speaker 1>provenance of. Oh there's more, she did say like I

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<v Speaker 1>said is she admitted that there were death cap mushrooms

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<v Speaker 1>in there. She said it was completely accidental. But she

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<v Speaker 1>was asked about a series of expletive filled messages that

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<v Speaker 1>she had sent about those in laws a few months

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<v Speaker 1>before they died. She said it was in a Facebook

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<v Speaker 1>group she described as what she thought was a safe

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<v Speaker 1>venting space for a group of women. And she's talking

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<v Speaker 1>smack about her in laws who then six months later

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<v Speaker 1>end up completely dead. She said she tried to have

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<v Speaker 1>her in laws mediate a dispute with their estranged husband,

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<v Speaker 1>Simon their son about school fields school fees, and she

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<v Speaker 1>was feeling hurt. She said, she was frustrated, She was

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit desperate. The couple they separated a long

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<v Speaker 1>time ago, ten years ago, So this is eight years

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<v Speaker 1>later that she invites the in laws and the aunt

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<v Speaker 1>and uncle in law over for this beautiful beef Wellington.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a captivating trial in a country of Australia.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody everywhere is talking about this. There are at least

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<v Speaker 1>two documentaries that have been produced the delve into this.

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<v Speaker 1>Newspapers there in Australia have devoted entire full pages to

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<v Speaker 1>this trial. Websites have been live blogging everybody's testimony and

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<v Speaker 1>each morning. Well, we've seen cold cases before, this is

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<v Speaker 1>one of the oldest ones that we've seen in a

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<v Speaker 1>long time. After decades of suspicion, police up in San

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<v Speaker 1>Jose have confirmed they know the identity of the killer

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<v Speaker 1>of a high school teacher in San Jose. It was

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<v Speaker 1>June sixteenth, nineteen seventy eight, just a day after Brandham

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<v Speaker 1>High School in San Jose recess for the summer. A

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<v Speaker 1>student found a teacher, Diane Peterson, lying on the floor

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<v Speaker 1>of the hallway near her classroom, single stab wound to

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<v Speaker 1>her chest, and the Santa Clara County DA's office said

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<v Speaker 1>that Peterson was just one of a handful of teachers

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<v Speaker 1>who were on campus that day. They were cleaning out

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<v Speaker 1>their classrooms from the summer break for the summer break

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<v Speaker 1>when she was killed. And for years, authorities said they

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<v Speaker 1>had one person in mind. A sixteen year old student

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<v Speaker 1>at the school was considered a person of interest in

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<v Speaker 1>the case, but they didn't get any information. The tips

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<v Speaker 1>they had didn't lead anywhere, so the case remained unsolved

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<v Speaker 1>for forty seven years. Now, the reason this kid, the

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen year old, became a person of interest was he

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<v Speaker 1>was arrested in an unrelated crime, and detectives noticed that

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<v Speaker 1>his booking photo looked a lot like the police sketch

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<v Speaker 1>of the teacher's killer. We just don't see police sketches

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<v Speaker 1>anymore because of the ubiquity of surveillance cameras that exist

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<v Speaker 1>all over the place. But the sketch came from a

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<v Speaker 1>student witness who said that they heard the teacher yelling

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<v Speaker 1>for help and saw the killer take off. That same student, however,

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<v Speaker 1>the one who came up with the original image the sketch,

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<v Speaker 1>later disclaimed his statement. Police had also been told by

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<v Speaker 1>a witness that they had seen the sixteen year old

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<v Speaker 1>carrying a knife that had the words teacher deer written

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<v Speaker 1>on the side of it when he was questioned, and

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<v Speaker 1>the sixteen year old said he didn't have a knife

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<v Speaker 1>at all, so they were unable to corroborate all of that. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>prosecutors note that the retracted statement by the fellow student,

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<v Speaker 1>as well as another one when she confronted him about

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<v Speaker 1>drug dealing, neither story was corroborated. But they've said now

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<v Speaker 1>that a relative disclosed that Nicki Nickerson his real name

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<v Speaker 1>was Harry, that Nicki had admitted to stabbing the teacher

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<v Speaker 1>literally minutes after it happened. The Santa Clara County DA

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Rosen said Miss Peterson would have been a senior

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<v Speaker 1>citizen today if she had not crossed paths with this

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<v Speaker 1>violent teenager, so finally officially solved,