“Death Wall” found in the home of a chef suspected of fatal mushroom poisoning

At the former home of the woman who prepared lunch in a suspected deadly mushroom poisoning that killed three people, there was a spooky “death wall” with disturbing children’s drawings of tombstones and an ominous warning: “You mustn’t do this.” [have] to live long.”

A photo captured exclusively by news.com.au from inside the home in Korumburra, formerly owned by Erin Patterson, shows much of a wall covered in red, blue and black graffiti.

“One does not long to live exactly one hour,” says one passage.

“You died by my sword,” says another.

Below two stick figures and a woman are the words “I’m dead” and “No, I’m really dead” and above what appear to be three tombstones.

One of the headstones appears to have “Grandma RIP” written on it, while the third reads “ME RIP”.

Next to the light switch is written “The Moulett Man The Moulett Man”. Other random doodles on the bizarre mural include “Eternity,” “Oh oh yeah,” and “Get Ready.”

“We started calling it the Wall of Death,” said the trader who took the photo.

The man who asked not to give his name received a call from a real estate agent last year asking him to paint the wall so the property could be sold.

“I looked at it and I was like: Holy shit, what the hell is going on here?” he told news.com.au.

“I said it was really scary for kids to do something like that in the eat-in kitchen. I didn’t think it was right, it looked scary. It just didn’t look right to me as a parent.”

The 46-year-old said he was struck by the numerous references to death, particularly the headstones.

“It immediately stood out. It was spooky. I think I used four coats of primer and two coats of wall paint to cover all of the text.”

The channel said it took the photo and, apart from showing a few friends, didn’t think about it until the deadly mushroom poisoning made headlines.

“Now of course this mushroom thing has come out,” he said.

Tradition described the Pattersons as “kind of a quiet family”.

Patterson’s two children, whom she shares with her estranged husband Simon, are believed to be in seventh and fifth grade.

“You keep to yourself,” he said.

The channel told news.com.au it was aware Homicide investigators wanted to speak to it about the photo, which had previously been reported to exist.

Another crafter who saw the wall said it was “just not something you would normally expect kids of that age to draw on the wall.”

“You’d think they were drawing flowers and unicorns, not tombstones and death,” he said. “I was surprised, but didn’t think much of it at the time. It’s a little weird, but I see weird shit every day.”

According to him, Patterson’s explanation for the drawings was, “She went out or something, and the kids were there and doing that while they were out.”

“It was very strange to see – it was just unusual for a kid to draw something,” he added.

Property records show that the three bedroom, two bathroom home, described in the listing as an “ideal family home” and “ideal for entertaining,” sold for $353,700 last August.

Patterson, 48, is said to have cooked a dish of deadly death caps and served it to four people at a luncheon at her home in Leongatha, southeast Melbourne, 15 minutes from Korumburra, on July 29.

Her former in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, died after lunch of symptoms suggestive of death cap poisoning.

Patterson denies any wrongdoing and has affirmed her innocence multiple times.

Wilkinson’s husband Ian, pastor of Korumburra Baptist Church, remains in hospital.

Simon Patterson, Erin’s ex-husband, with whom she is separated, was also supposed to be at the dinner but said he canceled, a close friend said The Daily Mail.

“They went to her house for mediation to speak with the family. “Simon was supposed to go there for lunch but he canceled at the last minute or he’d be on his deathbed too,” the friend said, adding that Mr Patterson had no interest in getting back together with his children’s mother.

A friend told it The Australian that Mr Patterson’s family were concerned about Ms Patterson’s “mental state” and therefore accepted the invitation to lunch to “ensure she was in the right mental state to resume a relationship with Simon”.

Neither Ms. Patterson nor her two school-age children fell ill after lunch.

This comes after Mr Patterson claimed in a social media post that he had to be placed in an induced coma last year due to a sudden mysterious bowel condition.

“I collapsed at home and was then in an induced coma for 16 days, undergoing three emergency surgeries, mainly on the small intestine, plus one other scheduled surgery,” he wrote.

“Twice my family was asked to come and say goodbye to me as they didn’t expect me to survive.”

Death caps can cause severe, fatal damage to the liver and kidneys.

They can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, and nausea, but much of the damage can be done before symptoms appear.

Ms Patterson was questioned by police last weekend and her home was searched.

No charges were brought.

Police warned against speculating about the case as it could turn out to be “very harmless”.

Accordingly 7 newsshe initially told police that she picked up the mushrooms at a local store in the Leongatha area.

On Monday, she admitted that she initially lied to the police detailed opinion about what happened before and after the suspected poisoning.

“I want to clear the file now because I am extremely stressed and overwhelmed by the death of my loved ones,” Ms Patterson said in a written statement to police, which is available from ABC.

“I hope that this statement could be of some help. I think if people understood the background better, they wouldn’t be so quick to judge.”

In the most recent statement, Ms Patterson said she too became ill after eating the beef Wellington dish and explained the leftovers had been turned over to police as evidence.

She claimed the mushrooms used in the dish were a mix of button mushrooms she had bought months earlier from a supermarket chain and dried button mushrooms she had bought months earlier in an Asian grocery store in Melbourne.

“Now I am devastated to think that these fungi may have contributed to my loved ones’ illness. I really want to reiterate that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people I loved,” she said.

“I now deeply regret not having answered some of them [police] Questions that follow that advice given the nightmare this process has become.”

In her statement, Ms Patterson said she dumped a dehydrator at a local landfill after the disastrous lunch, after discussing the device with her children and her ex-husband asking: “Did you poison them with it?”

She said in the statement she then “panicked” at the thought that she could lose custody of her children and ditch the processor, according to ABC.

She has consistently and vigorously denied any wrongdoing and maintains her innocence.

She said she wasn’t telling investigators the truth when she told them she dumped it “a long time ago.”

Patterson said her children were not present at the time of the meal, claiming they actually went to the movies.

The following evening they ate the leftovers from lunch.

Patterson said her kids didn’t like mushrooms, so she “scraped them off.”

In her statement, she claimed that she was contacted by the Ministry of Health asking what might have caused the violent reactions from her guests.

She paid tribute to her in-laws, saying she has “deep love and respect for them” and believes they are “extraordinary” role models for her children.