• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Kinda wild how people that know their mushrooms could just go into the woods and get a highly effective poison. I’m surprised mushroom murders aren’t more common

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      4 days ago

      I feel like the difficulty in poisoning someone is not obtaining the poison in the first place but the delivery and getting away with it

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        4 days ago

        Hmm this person knew the victim, had a motive, and was really into mycology, and the autopsy had signs of poisoning from a rare mushroom…

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          Good deniability though.
          Be publicly into micology and commonly collect mushrooms to cook when you have guests over.
          Only issue would be to somehow plausably not poison yourself to death. Maybe taking little enough you survive.

          And take care you aren’t quite known as fully competent, spread the air of knowledge without any solid proof or association.
          I’ll look like you were a sham and amateur overestimating themselves.

          Or just accidentally run them over with a car.

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              3 days ago

              Shitty job.
              She lied, behaved irrationally, couldn’t get her story straight ahead of time, scenario too implausible.

              You gotta admit fault, hate yourself for killing everyone. Buying poisonous mushrooms is implausible, admit you got them yourself right away, admit accidentally killing them. Swear to never touch mushrooms again.

              And find a better excuse for not poisoning yourself, noone individually prepares mushroom sauce per person.

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          4 days ago

          I mean, anyone reading this thread right now has enough information to know that this thing is deadly, so you don’t need to be into mycology to find a way to weaponize it since it can easily be mistaken as edible.

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          4 days ago

          I typically don’t broadcast my hobbies and my friends wouldn’t speak with the police as a general police

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      There was that case in Australia last year, the poisoner just did a really bad job at covering her tracks. There probably are intelligent people able to get away with it that we don’t hear about. It’s crazy.

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        It was wild reading that as it happened. “Oh no, only the people I invited were poisoned! I’m so lucky to be alive!” Homie. That’s suspicious as hell.

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          Didn’t she also leave a book of poisonous mushrooms in her house or something. Like not even hidden away just on a table somewhere.

          • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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            From what I remember, she had it in her browsing history and also had a dehydrator that she bought specially to prep the mushrooms that she did a bad job of disposing.

            https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx554n1x0wo

            The day after she was discharged from hospital, CCTV captured Erin travelling to a local dump and disposing of a food dehydrator later found to contain traces of poisonous mushrooms.

            She was also using three phones around the time of the lunch, two of which disappeared shortly afterwards. The one she did hand over to police had been repeatedly wiped – including while detectives were searching her house.

            For investigators, the red flags began mounting quickly.

            Questions about the source of the mushrooms elicited odd answers. Patterson claimed some of them had been bought dried from an Asian grocery in Melbourne, but she couldn’t remember which suburb. When asked about the brand, or for transaction records, she said they were in plain packaging and she must’ve paid cash.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Where is the style in that? Where is the panache?

        Everybody is going to remember the mushroom murderer, nobody is going to remember some bleach boy.

      • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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        Yeah, but with a mushroom there is a natural explanation or may not be as obvious as “someone fed this guy bleach”.

        People will eat a mushroom pizza if you give it to them

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          Yeah but usually unless the person is getting into mushroom picking the cops tend to suspect it’s the person in their life that goes mushroom picking

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            I’m probably in the minority on this particular post. But this would NOT kill me.

            Ew mushrooms. I’d pick them all off and have a pile of poison on my plate’s edge.

            Assuming nothing leached out.

            I don’t fully understand my hatred, but mushrooms do not belong in food. My only exception so far, and I’ll try most things once, is wood ear mushrooms, which give me seaweed vibes and are just sort of chewy/crunchy.

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        4 days ago

        Well I’m already in a murderous mood, it’s probably best I talk to as fewer people as possible.

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      You would need to know how to id a destroying Angel and then somehow put in someones food without them immediately identified as suspicious. Also it causes specific symptoms too, and likely would ask questions of a strange mushroom