00:00My name is Greg Hadrick and I have a book coming out very soon called Mushroom Murders which is
00:07about the trial of Erin Patterson. Tell us why people are so fascinated with this case. I think
00:12part of what's fascinating is that the people who always ask that question are the people who are
00:16most fascinated about the case and they're wondering why they're fascinated. I believe
00:21like many people it is so unusual to have a murderer like Erin. I think that's why people
00:29find it endlessly fascinating is to try and understand someone who looks like them, who is
00:36a mum with two kids, living a quiet life in a rural town, no criminal background whatsoever
00:44in any of her background or her family and yet she murdered three people and I think it's the
00:54disconnect between the life she led and the family life that she embraced and then the
00:59actions she did and that the gap between those two is so big compared to what most people
01:08understand and would conceive murderers to be and I think that's why there's this ongoing
01:13fascination with this case.
