Chilling ‘death wall’ found inside mushroom cook Erin Patterson’s former home daubed with eerie drawings & messages
A CREEPY "death wall" was uncovered at the former home of the mum whose poisonous mushroom meal left three dead.
Red and blue markers were used to scrawl eerie drawings and messages over the wall - with one chilling note reading: "You don't [have] long to live".
Mum of two Erin Patterson, 48, is said to have held the deadly gathering on July 29 in a bid to try and win back her estranged ex-husband Simon Patterson.
She invited her former in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, plus Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson and her husband Ian, to her home in Leongatha, Australia.
But after eating the beef Wellington served by Erin, the guests became violently ill.
Doctors said their symptoms were consistent with poisoning by death cap mushrooms, which grow wild in the area.
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Gail and Don, both 70, and Heather, 66, later died.
Ian has been in hospital fighting for his life since - but will likely survive and could hold the key to the mystery.
Now a tradesman has revealed what he called a "death wall" inside Erin's former home in Korumburra.
He said he was hired to paint the inside last year so it could be flogged.
The worker, who wished to remain anonymous, told : "I’ve looked at it and gone, holy s***, what the hell’s going on here."
Haunting images show red, blue and black graffiti on the kitchen wall.
One chilling drawing shows two stick figures with the words "I am dead" and "no I am really dead".
Beside them appear to be three tombstones with the words "grandma RIP", "Hannah RIP" and "Me RIP" on them.
She revealed she was also hospitalised after the lunch with bad stomach pains and diarrhoea, put on a saline drip and given a "liver protective drug".
And the mum admitted lying to cops when she told them she had dumped a food dehydrator at a local tip "a long time ago" - which was later seized by cops.
Erin said she was at the hospital with her kids "discussing the food dehydrator" when her ex-husband asked: "Is that what you used to poison them?"
Worried she might lose custody of the couple's children, Erin said she then panicked and dumped the dehydrator at the tip.
Erin outlined the events of the fateful day for the first time in her statement.
She said she served the meal and allowed the guests to choose their own plates - and she also ate a portion of the beef wellington herself.
The mushrooms were a mixture of button mushrooms from a major supermarket chain, and dried mushrooms bought from an Asian grocery store in Melbourne months before, she claimed.
Erin said she was taken by ambulance from the Leongatha Hospital to the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne on July 31.
Gippsland Southern Health Service confirmed a fifth person came to Leongatha Hospital on July 30 with suspected food poisoning.
As her guests fell ill, Erin said she was contacted by the Department of Health and asked about the deadly meal.
She said she kept some of the lunch and gave it to toxicologists for examination.
And despite reports of her children being at the meal, Erin said the kids had gone to the movies before the lunch.
She said her children ate leftovers the following night - but they don't like mushrooms so she scraped them off.
Erin said: "I am now wanting to clear up the record because I have become extremely stressed and overwhelmed by the deaths of my loved ones.
"I am hoping this statement might help in some way.
"I believe if people understood the background more, they would not be so quick to rush to judgement.
"I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones.
"I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people whom I loved."
Erin said she was advised to give a "no comment" interview to police immediately after the deaths.
"I now very much regret not answering some questions following this advice given the nightmare that this process has become," she said.
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The mum also confirmed that her ex-husband, Simon, had planned to join the fatal lunch but told her "prior to the day" that he would not be coming.