The woman who cooked the fatal beef wellington pie with Death Cap mushrooms has a multimillion dollar property portfolio funded by a stunning oceanfront property she inherited from her mother.
Erin Patterson, 48, owns outright the recently built house at Leongatha where she cooked the meal which fatally poisoned three guests including her former parents-in-law and left Baptist Pastor Ian Wilkinson in hospital fighting for his life.
The house is now worth around a million dollars and Ms Patterson also owns a million dollar villa she bought in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Mount Waverley with money she inherited from her mother.
Ms Patterson’s mother, noted children’s literature professor, Dr Heather Scutter, left a house on the South Pacific Ocean headland at Eden in her will when she died in early 2019.
Erin Patterson is a real estate expert who has bought and sold apartments and houses, owns two million dollar properties, and inherited a stunning waterfront place from her own mother
Mushroom cook Erin Patterson’s children’s literature academic mother Dr Heather Scutter left in her 2019 will this oceanfront home to her children after dying aged around 73
Since her inheritance, Erin has bought three properties including a house now infamous for having her children’s ‘Satanic’ scrawlings on the wall and the land on which she built the Leongatha house where she held the Death Cap mushroom pie lunch.
Ms Patterson returned to that property this week despite complaining she cannot live there because the media has painted her as ‘an evil witch’.
On Wednesday she was spotted buying goods from a Leongatha bakery and stopping at McDonalds for a coffee before heading back to Melbourne.
In a lengthy statement this week, Ms Patterson said she was worried she could lose custody of her children after the mushroom fatalities and was ‘devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones’.
It was after the deaths last week of ex-husband Simon’s parents Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, that Ms Patterson – who has been named by police as person of interest – referred to her own mother’s death in 2019.
Erin bought the land for her Leongatha house four years ago for $260,000 and built the smart two-storey home where she cooked the fateful beef wellington lunch
Erin’s million-dollar villa was one of three properties she bought months after her own mother died in 2019 and left her an oceanfront him at Eden on the NSW South Coast
‘My mum passed away four years ago and Gail had never been anything but good and kind to me,’ she said, and described Gail Patterson as ‘like the mum I didn’t have’.
Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting Ms Patterson is responsible for the poisonings.
Erin Patterson’s own mother Heather died aged 72 in early 2019 and left her daughters the house she had been living in at Eden.
Dr Scutter was a Monash University lecturer in 19th century adult literature and a children’s book critic and author of articles and reviews on children’s literature.
Erin Patterson grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley with her sister Ceinwen, and parents Heather and Eitan.
After marrying Gippsland local, engineer and basketball coach Simon Patterson and having their two children, the Pattersons moved to Western Australia for a time and ran a book shop in a southwestern town.
The couple bought a house in remote Qunninup, where they lived for four years before returning to the east coast.
When Ms Patterson’s mother Heather died, she advertised Dr Scutter’s Eden house as having ‘uninterrupted water views that include the gentle curve of Aslings Beach, the dazzling blue of Twofold Bay, and beyond to the awe-inspiring expanse of the South Pacific Ocean’.
It sold for $900,000 four years ago, and it was after this that Erin bought the Korumburra house now infamous for having so-called ‘Satanic’ death messages scrawled on the walls by her children, who are now aged about 12 and 14.
The three-bedroom house was sold for an $85,000 profit in a seven month turnaround, with Ms Patterson getting a tradesman to paint over her children’s wall graffiti.
The tradie this week sold images of the drawings, which include the children’s names and feature tombstones, daggers and decapitated heads.
After Erin’s parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson (above) died following the beef wellington lunch at her home, she said of her own mother Heather ‘my mum passed away four years ago and Gail had never been anything but good and kind to me’
Heather Wilkinson (left) died aged 66 after consuming the beef and mushroom pie at Erin Patterson’s house and her husband, Baptist Pastor Ian Wilkinson (right) is in a coma in hospital awaiting a liver transplant
Along with scribbles are words including ‘You are dead by the sword’, ‘grandma R.I.P.’ , ‘ME R.I.P.’ and the date ‘August 1, 2021’ with the words ‘you will die within a year’ written underneath.
A few months after her mother Heather’s death, Erin Patterson bought a $931,000 villa in Mount Waverley, a short drive from the Scutter family home where she grew up.
Around the same time, Erin bought the land for her Leongatha house for $260,000 and built the smart two-storey home where she held the fateful mushroom pie lunch.
Ms Patterson appears to have gone into hiding since worldwide publicity of the deaths.
She bemoaned her plight this week, telling The Australian she had ‘been painted as an evil witch’ and said the media attention ‘is making it impossible for me to live in’ Leongatha.
‘I can’t have friends over. The media is at the house where my children are at. The media are at my sister’s house so I can’t go there. This is unfair.’
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The Korumburra house (above) sold last year by Erin Patterson is now infamous for the so-called ‘Death Wall’ of Satanic messages scrawled by her children which included daggers, tombstones and
Erin Patterson’s mother’s house sold for $900,000 four years ago
