Tammy Egglestone
Tammy Egglestone is a Melbourne true-crime enthusiast and book reviewer who attended nearly every day of the Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial in Morwell, becoming one of its best-known court watchers.
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PODCASTS
Oct 8, 2026
Penelope LierschHOST
And you've y- got a, a strong interest in crime, and, and you have for a long time, but what was it about this case? Can you remember, or can you just not remember a time when you weren't aware of it? [laughs]
Tammy EgglestoneGUEST
So my husband'll watch the news, and I got a, a little bit of snippet of it.
Tammy EgglestoneGUEST
Um, and then there was a podcast earlier on, but I think it was in the pretrial stage, so the podcast didn't really give you anything, and then I just gave up trying to find information about it.
18 MINS LATER
Erin PearsonHOST
the friendships that formed, um, outside that court and inside that courtroom over the 10, 11 weeks that we were all there.
Penelope LierschHOST
And you've y- got a, a strong interest in crime and, and you have for a long time, but what was it about this case? Can you remember, or can you just not remember a time when you weren't aware of it? [laughs]
Tammy EgglestoneGUEST
So my husband'll watch the news, and I got a, a little bit of snippet of it.
Tammy EgglestoneGUEST
Um, and then there was a podcast earlier on, but I think it was in the pretrial stage, so the podcast didn't really give you anything, and then I just gave up trying to find information about it.
18 MINS LATER
Erin PearsonHOST
the friendships that formed, um, outside that court and inside that courtroom over the 10, 11 weeks that we were all there.