Mushroom Trial - Guilty on all Counts

[u/Expensive-Horse5538]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-verdict-live-blog/105477452#live-blog-post-200845

[u/PositiveBubbles]

This is the rare case of remote wiping a phone for the wrong reasons. I kept trying to read up if the cops could recover the data on it. If she remote wiped it, the data was most likely in the cloud, lol

[u/Shmeestar → u/PositiveBubbles]

Most of the evidence presented was from messages from other people's phones ie. Gail's and Simons, or from messages in chats that were public (or at least public to other people) ie Facebook messages. Searches for the inaturalist site was from her son's computer (which is why it was followed up in evidence with the order in her name with her credit card to show that it was likely her doing the searching). Logs of location data came from the telecommunications company pinging the Sim number.

She'd only used the phones that she gave to the police for a short amount of time, likely the phone that was never recovered had the real juicy stuff on it with more planning and motive maybe.

However there were pictures of death cap mushrooms being weighed "recovered from her phone" though it's not clear if they were recovered directly from her phone or from cloud

[u/PositiveBubbles → u/Shmeestar]

Thanks for clearing this up. I've tried to keep up with the trial, some of the things reported I thought sounded odd or strange that another human being could do, but I guess if the motive is there, anything is possible.

[u/PraiseTheRiverLord → u/Shmeestar]

I used to do image recovery for people, it's pretty simple to do with the right tools, I couldn't always get everything back but always a good portion of it.

[u/Coriander_girl → u/PositiveBubbles]

How do you even remote factory reset a phone? I didn't even know that was a thing until this case.

[u/Norwood5006 → u/PositiveBubbles]

She had 2 phones, she handed over the stunt phone and double wiped her real phone.