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Daily Mail
10-07-2025
- Daily Mail
The face looks familiar and the crime is all too real. However the evil killer mushroom chef in these videos is anything but - and the viral videos have sparked a furious backlash
Disturbing AI-generated videos have gone viral on TikTok, showing convicted triple-killer Erin Patterson preparing her deadly beef Wellington dish. Erin Patterson, 50, was found guilty of murdering three relatives and attempting to murder a fourth on Monday after she laced their meal with death cap mushrooms. Patterson's father-in-law and mother-in-law Don and Gail Patterson and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson died following the lunch at her Leongatha home in south-east Victoria on July 29, 2023. Heather's husband, Pastor Ian Wilkinson, was the sole survivor of the deadly meal. The high-profile case drew global attention and developed a cult following online, spawning memes and satirical content. Now, a TikTok account named has attracted widespread attention for its AI-generated videos depicting Patterson in a fictional cooking series. The account, which uses the tagline, 'Just a Mum who loves making homemade meals for my family,' features a digital recreation of Patterson foraging for mushrooms and preparing the fatal dish. In one video, the AI version of Patterson can be seen welcoming viewers: 'What's up guys, welcome to my cooking series. 'Today we're making beef Wellington, but first we need to find some special mushrooms.' She then joked, 'The in-laws are going to love this,' while holding a mushroom. Another clip showed her in a supermarket asking for a dehydrator 'for death cap mushrooms - I mean, beef,' followed by scenes of mushrooms drying in her kitchen. 'Not long now. If anyone knows a good place to dispose of evidence, let me know,' the AI character said in the fake footage. The series continues with Patterson handing a dehydrator to a worker at a rubbish tip and cooking the dish while laughing about her 'special ingredient'. 'I'd hate to undercook it and make someone sick,' she quips, referencing trial details that she served her portion on a differently coloured plate. In another video, the AI version of Patterson could be seen between the aisles of a supermarket asking a staff member what kitchen appliance she recommends for drying 'death cap mushrooms...I mean, beef'. The video cut to a depiction of Patterson's kitchen, with the mushrooms inside a dehydrator on top of the bench. 'Not long now. If anyone knows of a good place to dispose of evidence let me know,' the AI Patterson said. In the third episode of the series, the AI Patterson could be seen walking through a rubbish tip and handing a dehydrator to a worker. Another video showed Patterson cooking the beef Wellington and laughing as she added her 'special ingredient'. 'I better cook this for an hour and I would hate to under cook it and make someone sick,' the AI Patterson said. 'Gotta make sure I don't get mixed up,' she added as she showed the camera a blue plate among red plates. Her trial heard she served her portion on a differently-coloured plate from her guests. The videos have sparked mixed reactions. Many viewers condemned the content as insensitive to the victims' families. 'People died. It's really not a joke,' one user commented. 'I laughed, then remembered three people died,' another added. Others defended the videos as dark humour. 'This is kind of funny, like a twisted joke. I'm laughing so hard,' one person wrote. 'Please do vlogs from her in prison next,' another suggested. One insisted: 'This is the best account I've ever come across,' while another fan said: 'This is fantastic.' While some admitted they found the fake videos entertaining, others argued it crossed a line and trivialised a tragic event that devastated multiple families.
Malay Mail
09-07-2025
- Malay Mail
Celebrity chef dismayed over recipe used by Australia's mushroom killer
MELBOURNE, July 9 — One of Australia's most famous chefs said she was dismayed to learn killer cook Erin Patterson partially used her recipe when baking a poisonous beef Wellington that killed three people. Patterson was found guilty this week of murdering her husband's parents and elderly aunt in 2023 by lacing their Saturday lunch with lethal death cap mushrooms. She based the dish—poisonous fungi aside—on a recipe by celebrity Australian chef Nagi Maehashi, the author of best-selling cookbooks. Maehashi said her recipe for the perfect beef Wellington had become 'entangled in a tragic situation'. 'It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes—possibly the one I've spent more hours perfecting than any other—something I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in a tragic situation,' she said late Tuesday on social media. Throughout a trial lasting more than two months, Patterson maintained the beef-and-pastry dish was accidentally poisoned with death cap mushrooms, the world's most-lethal fungus. But a 12-person jury on Monday found the 50-year-old guilty of triple murder, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. She was also found guilty of attempting to murder a fourth guest who survived. — AFP
News.com.au
09-07-2025
- News.com.au
Celebrity chef dismayed over recipe used by Australia's mushroom killer
One of Australia's most famous chefs said she was dismayed to learn killer cook Erin Patterson partially used her recipe when baking a poisonous beef Wellington that killed three people. Patterson was found guilty this week of murdering her husband's parents and elderly aunt in 2023 by lacing their Saturday lunch with lethal death cap mushrooms. She based the dish -- poisonous fungi aside -- on a recipe by celebrity Australian chef Nagi Maehashi, the author of best-selling cookbooks. Maehashi said her recipe for the perfect beef Wellington had become "entangled in a tragic situation". "It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes -- possibly the one I've spent more hours perfecting than any other -- something I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in a tragic situation," she said late Tuesday on social media. Throughout a trial lasting more than two months, Patterson maintained the beef-and-pastry dish was accidentally poisoned with death cap mushrooms, the world's most-lethal fungus. But a 12-person jury on Monday found the 50-year-old guilty of triple murder, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. She was also found guilty of attempting to murder a fourth guest who survived.
News.com.au
08-07-2025
- News.com.au
‘Upsetting': Nagi Maehashi makes statement on mushroom murders
Chef Nagi Maehashi has shared her heartbreak over her beef Wellington recipe being used by killer Erin Patterson. Patterson was found guilty this week of murder and attempted murder after she served a Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms to her estranged husband's parents and aunt. Maehashi said she had spent more time improving her beef Wellington recipe than any other, and said that she was heartbroken to have found herself 'entangled in the tragic situation'. She also insisted that the media needed to stop reaching out to her, and urged them to respect her privacy. 'It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes – perhaps the one I've spent more hours perfecting than any other – something that I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in this tragic situation,' she wrote in an Instagram post with a mushroom emoji. 'Other than that, I have nothing to say and I won't be talking to anyone. Thank you for respecting my privacy.' Maehashi's cookbook Dinner was featured as evidence in the shocking murder trial that lasted 40 days. When police searched Patterson's house on August 5, 2023, they found a copy of the popular recipe book with the recipe for beef Wellington 'spattered' with evidence that it had been followed. Patterson would later confirm to the court that she followed the Wellington recipe but had made a few deviations. During the trail, it was alleged that Patterson deviated from the recipe so she could make individual portions of the deadly Wellington to ensure would not accidentally consume it herself. On Monday, after seven days of deliberations, the jury unanimously found Patterson guilty of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Prosecutors argued the only reasonable explanation for what happened is Patterson knowingly seeking out death cap mushrooms and including them in the lunch on July 29, 2023, intending to kill or seriously injure her guests. Her defence, on the other hand, argued Patterson accidentally included the deadly mushrooms and acted poorly out of panic she would be wrongly blamed. Patterson's parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson died from multiple organ failure linked to mushroom poisoning in the week following the lunch. She will return to court at a later date for sentencing.
Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Daily Mail
RecipeTin Eats cookbook author Nagi Maehashi breaks silence on Erin Patterson trial after mushroom killer used her recipe to make deadly beef Wellington in murder plot
Nagi Maehashi has spoken out after it was revealed that her beef Wellington recipe was used by killer Erin Patterson as part of a grisly murder plot. Patterson was on Monday found guilty of murdering her three in-laws with death cap mushrooms in a beef Wellington that she served them for lunch in 2023. Chef Maehashi revealed on Tuesday that she was saddened that her recipe, which she created to bring 'joy and happiness' to others, was at the centre of such a horrific murder and subsequent trial. Maehashi's beef Wellington appeared in the 'Dinner' volume of her RecipeTin Eats series, published in 2022. 'It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes – perhaps the one I've spent more hours perfecting than any other – something that I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in this tragic situation,' the cook wrote in an Instagram Stories post on Tuesday. Chef Maehashi revealed on Tuesday that she was saddened that her recipe, which she created to bring 'joy and happiness' to others, was at the centre of such a horrific murder and subsequent trial 'Other than that, I have nothing to say and I won't be talking to anyone. Thank you for respecting my privacy.' Maehashi addressed the statement to the 'journalists of Australia' and unusually added a red and white mushroom emoji. Crime scene photos supplied to the Supreme Court of Victoria showed Patterson's copy of the RecipeTin Eats cookbook sitting on a counter with a section bookmarked. The beef Wellington recipe within was used as the basis for a tainted dish, which was modified by Patterson to include poisonous death cap mushrooms. The mother-of-two had pleaded not guilty to the murders of Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson. They died after consuming death caps in the beef Wellington during lunch at Patterson's Leongatha home in southeast Victoria on July 29, 2023. Only Pastor Ian Wilkinson survived her plot - a blunder Patterson would live to regret, and will now serve time for after also being found guilty of attempting to murder him. Asked to deliver a verdict, the jury foreperson - one of only five women to sit on the original 15-person panel - simply stated, 'guilty'. The verdict produced an audible gasp from those within the packed courtroom, which included members of the Patterson clan. It comes just weeks after Maehashi made global headlines by accusing TikTok star and fellow cookbook author Brooke Bellamy of plagiarism. In a post shared on her website and social media, Maehashi claimed Bellamy's debut cookbook Bake With Brooki featured two recipes that closely resembled her own: caramel slice and baklava. Maehashi alleged Penguin Australia, the publisher of Bellamy's cookbook, had 'exploited' her work without permission. 'To me, the similarities are so specific and detailed that calling these a coincidence feels disingenuous,' Maehashi claimed. 'There are also recipes from other authors… where the similarities are so extensive, dismissing it as coincidence would be absurd (in my opinion).' Maehashi said she felt compelled to speak out against the publishing giant. 'Staying silent protects this kind of behaviour,' she said. Bellamy has vehemently denied the accusations.
