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That's funny. Thanks for posting. I'm still listening. When he did that show I bet he could not even have imagined these trans suicidees killing young kids.
 
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9-year-old Renesmay Eutsey found dead after reported missing from Fayette County, foster mother charged with homicide

9-year-old Renesmay Eutsey was found dead in the Youghiogheny River and 31-year-old Kourtney Eutsey is being charged with criminal homicide.
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Eutsey said she was afraid to call 911 because the victim was skinny and had burned herself in the tub about a week earlier.

How exactly does one that age burn themselves in a tub so badly it still shows a week later? If the water is that how hot and your not being forced into it, you get right back out with possibly a sight burn, not one that is still evident a week later.
 
Nate at Crime Con, first big day there is today but things were going on last night already.

I know of sooo many going from different cases, so many newscasters and more I think than I've ever known of in previous years. Nate, Colby and Ray Hermasillo are going to take the stage tomorrow on Daybell.

Marcia Clark is going for the first time.

The defense atty from Murdaugh was there again (can't stand him) and so on.

Although the title here touches on a case and interview, Nate and Erica start out the video talking of Crime Con. They've already seen Vinnie, Nancy Grace and more. This event is getting bigger every year. We should be getting some video from there over the next few days and after. People also go to try to bring attention to their case or for a missing loved one/unsolved case.

 
Nate has a few minutes with a lot of people on here. Of interest was Candace Cooley. Their org is training LE on a few things, one is IP addresses. I think this so beneficial. LE should have at least one person in each agency who can do these kinds of things imo. Brian Entin was on and more.

 
The bit with Newspapers.com was interesting, their sponsor. They started as more of an ancestry/family history digitizing all newspapers, easily searchable by name, location, etc. to get newspaper articles. Anyhow, they realized a lot of people using their site and hitting articles were people following crime so they started marketing for that too, second year at Crime Con, sponsored Nate, etc. Anyhow, kind of interesting.

There are a lot of people he talks to in the above video.
 
Wow.

Well the children are alive and somehow they stayed that way over these years in the wilderness apparently. Sounds llike he was teaching the older one a life of crime even back a few years ago when it was likely her robbing the bank with him. All of the children are likely to have been heavily influenced over such a number of years.

I wonder about the first incident when they were reported missing with him but he eventually came back and was only charged with wasting police time. Did someone drop charges, like not returning them to the other parent? Or did a relative lie for him or what's the deal there? Seems there must be more to it. Then he turns around and takes off with them again.
 
Ember Nirvana Essence Phillips; Maverick Rusty Callam Phillips; Jayda Jorga Jin Phillips; Thomas Callam Phillips

The remaining missing children of Tom Phillips, the fugitive New Zealand father who hid in the wilderness with them for nearly four years before being shot dead by the police, have been found “safe,” authorities have confirmed.

At around 4:30 p.m. local time on Monday, Sept. 8, the two children were located approximately 2 km (1.24 miles) from where their father died in a shootout in the wilderness near Waitomo in the North Island, the New Zealand police said in a press release.

“Specialist Police officers conducting a search within bush near Waitomo located the outstanding children of Tom Phillips. I’m pleased to say they are unharmed and are now safe,” Acting Deputy Commissioner Jill Rogers said.

“...While they are safe, this is the start of a long journey of recovery and their welfare remains our top priority. For that reason, we will not be going into details about where they are now or their mental state.”

In a press conference on Monday, Rogers shared that the children were found alone and “uninjured” at a “remote” campsite and were transported to another location “for medical checks," per the New Zealand outlet Stuff.
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Missing Children Found Safe After Their Fugitive Father Who Hid in the Wilderness for 4 Years is Shot by Police

The 2 missing children of Tom Phillips, the fugitive father from New Zealand who hid in the wilderness with them for nearly four years, have been found 'safe' by police, authorities announced on Monday, Sept. 8.
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Thomas Callam Phillips and his children were officially reported as missing by family members in December 2021.

A fugitive father who had been hiding with his three children in the dense New Zealand wilderness was shot dead in an armed confrontation with police on Monday, leading to his three children being placed in the custody of police, ending a near four-year search for the family.

Thomas Phillips and his children – believed to be ages 9, 10 and 12 – had been evading police in a remote part of the country’s North Island since December 2021, triggering a manhunt that gripped the nation.

Phillips’ time on the run ended in the early hours of Monday when police responded to a break-in at a farm shop in a tiny rural town and gave chase.

A police officer was wounded in the confrontation after being shot in the head at close range with a high-powered rifle, police said.

One of the children was found with Phillips. Following a massive and urgent search operation involving helicopters, police announced the other two children had been located, later Monday, on their own at a remote campsite in the dense bush near the tiny rural town of Marokopa, on the rugged west coast of New Zealand’s Waikato region.

“They are with police officers now, and are being removed from that location,” Acting Deputy Commissioner Jill Rogers told reporters Monday afternoon.

“I can confirm that the children are well and uninjured, and they will be taken to a location this evening for medical checks,” said said.
A police officer investigates at a site following a shootout that occurred near the town of Piopio, located in New Zealand's Waikato region on September 8, 2025.

 
At 10:18 on Monday, Erin Patterson was led from courtroom four inside Melbourne's Supreme Court building to begin a life sentence in prison.

Her slow shuffle took her directly past two rows of wooden benches squeezed full of journalists, each scrutinising Patterson's exit for any final detail.

Upstairs in the public gallery, observers craned their necks to get a last glimpse – possibly for decades, perhaps ever – of the seemingly ordinary woman who is one of Australia's most extraordinary killers.

Also watching her was Ian Wilkinson, the only survivor of Patterson's famous mushroom meal in 2023, a cruel murder plot the judge decried as an "enormous betrayal".

Mr Wilkinson had for months walked in and out of court without uttering a public word. He always wore a black sleeveless jacket to keep warm in the winter chill, having never fully recovered from the death cap mushrooms that took his wife and two best friends.

But on Monday he paused on the courthouse steps to speak to media for the first time. He calmly thanked police who "brought to light the truth of what happened to three good people" and the lawyers who tried the case for their "hard work and perseverance".
Reuters Ian Wilkinson, the sole surviving guest of a deadly mushroom lunch served by convicted murderer Erin Patterson, speaks to media as he leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne

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Australia mushroom murder survivor Ian Wilkinson's plea to grieve in private as Erin Patterson jailed

As Erin Patterson was sentenced, her sole surviving victim Ian Wilkinson called for privacy and kindness.
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Did he plan ahead? One has to wonder how he kept clean clothes or had clothing for the girls etc. I'm assuming he took the older one with on crimes, meaning the younger ones were left alone. Lots to wonder about here including apparently running around on an ATV and then trying to steal another.
 
A Victorian supreme court judge has sentenced Erin Patterson to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years. A jury had previously found Patterson guilty of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder by serving beef wellingtons laced with deadly death cap mushrooms. She had hosted the lunch at her home in Leongatha, Victoria on 29 July 2023, which was attended by her estranged husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and his aunt and uncle, Heather and Ian Wilkinson; of the guests, only Ian survived.

Delivering the sentence on Monday morning, Justice Christopher Beale said he was satisfied Patterson invited her guests to the lunch ‘with the intention of killing them all’. ‘I have no hesitation in finding that your offending falls into the worst category for the offences of murder and attempted murder,’ Beale said
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Watch in full: Erin Patterson sentenced to life in prison for Australian mushroom murders – video

Justice Christopher Beale said he was satisfied Patterson invited her guests to the lunch ‘with the intention of killing them all’
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Lone survivor of mushroom murders pleads to pleads to grieve in private as killer jailed for lif​

Watch: What it was like as Australia’s mushroom murderer was jailed for life

At 10:18 on Monday, Erin Patterson was led from courtroom four inside Melbourne's Supreme Court building to begin a life sentence in prison.

Her slow shuffle took her directly past two rows of wooden benches squeezed full of journalists, each scrutinising Patterson's exit for any final detail.

Upstairs in the public gallery, observers craned their necks to get a last glimpse – possibly for decades, perhaps ever – of the seemingly ordinary woman who is one of Australia's most extraordinary killers.

Also watching her was Ian Wilkinson, the only survivor of Patterson's famous mushroom meal in 2023, a cruel murder plot the judge decried as an "enormous betrayal".

Mr Wilkinson had for months walked in and out of court without uttering a public word. He always wore a black sleeveless jacket to keep warm in the winter chill, having never fully recovered from the death cap mushrooms that took his wife and two best friends.

But on Monday he paused on the courthouse steps to speak to media for the first time. He calmly thanked police who "brought to light the truth of what happened to three good people" and the lawyers who tried the case for their "hard work and perseverance".
Reuters Ian Wilkinson, the sole surviving guest of a deadly mushroom lunch served by convicted murderer Erin Patterson, speaks to media as he leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne
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Ian Wilkinson is the sole surviving guest of the lunch

There was praise too for the medics who saved his life and tried desperately to halt the other lunch guests' brutal decline.

For the 71-year-old, it is now back to the house he had shared with Heather, his wife of 44 years, who raised their four children before becoming a teacher and mentor.

"The silence in our home is a daily reminder," he told the court a fortnight ago, as he gave an emotional victim impact statement.

"[There's] nobody to share in life's daily tasks, which has taken much of the joy out of pottering around the house and the garden. Nobody to debrief with at the end of the day."

"I only feel half alive without her," he added.

To most, Heather Wilkinson will be remembered as one of Patterson's victims - an unfortunate lunch guest in a murder with no clear motive.

But to her husband, the pastor at a Baptist church, Mrs Wilkinson was his "beautiful wife" - not perfect, he said, but full of "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control" and also "sage advice".

"It's one of the distressing shortcomings of our society that so much attention is showered on those who do evil, and so little on those who do good," he said in his victim impact statement - a barely hidden flash of frustration at how much focus had been on his wife's killer.

Grief compounded by mammoth interest​

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Getty Images A woman in a brown jacket with a brown ponytail with her wrists in handcuffs. Her left wrist is being held by a gloved hand on a tattooed arm emerging from behind a pillar
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Patterson will be eligible for release when she is 82

Never in recent memory has an Australian criminal case been so high-profile: a small-town murder mystery with a weapon so outlandish it wouldn't seem out of place in an Agatha Christie novel - not so much a whodunnit as a whydunnit.

Spectators queued daily to nab a spot in the courtroom, thousands of people picked apart details of the case online, and journalists descended from around the world to cover the lengthy trial.

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At least five podcasts followed the minutiae of the case in the regional Victorian town of Morwell. A documentary crew from a streaming service followed every step.

An Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) drama series is in works. And there will be several books too, one of them co-authored by Helen Garner, a doyenne of modern Australian literature.

Many were in court earlier this month as, one after the other, a series of victim impact statements laid bare the effects of the horrendous crime and the unprecedented attention it attracted.

Simon Patterson – the killer's estranged husband – wrote of his inability to articulate how much he missed his mum and dad.

Ruth Dubois – the daughter of Ian and Heather Wilkinson – told the court Patterson had used her parents' natural kindness against them.

Don Patterson's 100-year-old mother shared her grief at having outlived him.

A common thread throughout, though, was how the media and the public had only compounded their grief and distress.

"The intense media coverage has left me second-guessing every word I say, worried about who I can trust with my thoughts and feelings," Ms Dubois told the court. "It has changed the way I interact with people."

"It is particularly revolting to experience our family's tragedy being turned into entertainment for the masses and to know that people are using our family's trauma for their own personal gain."

Mr Patterson lost his parents Don and Gail because of the meal cooked by his wife, a lunch that he too would have eaten, had he not declined the invitation at the last minute.

It was ultimately left out of the trial, but he believes Erin Patterson had been trying to kill him with tainted food for years, and had almost succeeded on several occasions.
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Supreme Court of Victoria Beef Wellington recovered from bin on the left and a transparent blue specimen bag on the right
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Patterson allegedly made a spare toxic beef Wellington (pictured) for her estranged husband

He was about as entwined in the case as it could get. But through the legal process he spent as little time at court as possible, ensconced instead in the safety and privacy of his home.

He wasn't there for the unanimous guilty verdict, nor Monday's sentencing. And his victim impact statement a fortnight ago - all 1,034 words of it - was read by a relative.

The statement had clues as to why. He described the strain of being on constant alert for people showing "a threatening interest" in his family.

"My kids and I have suffered many days filled with strangers menacing our home… We have faced people waiting in ambush at our front door, inches away with TV camera and microphone at the ready after ringing our doorbell.

"Strangers holding notebooks have banged aggressively on our windows in the early morning trying to peek into my children's bedrooms, always skulking away before the police arrive.

"When we are at a cafe, if I suddenly say it's time to go now, the kids know we immediately leave quietly, because I've spotted someone serendipitously recording us."

It's hard enough for them to deal with the "grim reality" that they live in "an irreparably broken home... when almost everyone else knows their mother murdered their grandparents", he said.
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Family tree showing Erin Patterson, her estranged husband Simon Patterson, their two children, Simon's father Don Patterson, Simon's mother Gail Patterson, Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson, and Heather's husband Ian Wilkinson.

In the small town of Korumburra though, where the Wilkinson and Patterson families are firmly rooted, the community has closed ranks around them, and remained tight-lipped during the media onslaught.

This "ongoing love" gives Mr Patterson hope that his children will thrive - "especially if the wider public persists in letting them be".

'Devastating betrayal of trust'​

Justice Christopher Beale on Monday said Patterson had traumatised four generations of the Patterson and Wilkinson families and wrought indescribable sorrow on the communities that clearly adored them.

"Erin was embraced as part of the Patterson family. She was welcome and treated with genuine love and respect in a way she did not appear to experience from her own family," Beale said, reading a tranche of a statement tendered to the court.

"Her actions represent a profound and devastating betrayal of the trust and love extended to her."

Addressing the 50-year-old himself, Justice Beale said: "Not only did you cut short three lives and cause lasting damage to Ian Wilkinson's health… you inflicted untold suffering on your own children, whom you robbed of their beloved grandparents."

It would be impossible to shield them from "incessant discussion of the case in the media, online, in public spaces - even in the schoolyard", he added.

Aggravating her offending even further was the fact her crimes were extensively planned – and she was so committed to their execution that, even as authorities grilled her for information that could help save the lunch guests' lives, she refused to help them.

"You showed no pity for your victims… [and] you engaged in an elaborate cover up of your guilt."

Her continued insistence of her innocence is a further affront.

"Your failure to exhibit any remorse pours salt into all the victims' wounds," he said.

Justice Beale said he had no hesitation in categorising Patterson's actions as the worst kind of offending, but stopped just shy of imposing the harshest possible sentence, owing to the extreme isolation she faces as such a notorious prisoner.

For three counts of murder and one of attempted murder, she was given a life sentence, but will be eligible for release in 2056, when she is 82 years old.

But while Justice Beale was eviscerating of Patterson on Monday, Mr Wilkinson was his characteristically gracious self.

Outside court, he didn't spare a single word for his wife's killer.

Instead, his final words to the public were a call to action.

"Our lives and the life of our community depends on the kindness of others," he said.

"I would like to encourage everybody to be kind to each other."

He ended with another appeal for people to respect his family's privacy as they "continue to grieve and heal", and with some perhaps undeserved well wishes for the assembled media pack. "Thank you for listening. I hope you all have a great day."

It was a typically dignified, quiet exit at what the family hopes will be the end of confronting criminal proceedings – and an opportunity for some peace.

Erin Patterson now has until midnight on 6 October to appeal against her conviction or sentence.

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Australia mushroom murder survivor Ian Wilkinson's plea to grieve in private as Erin Patterson jailed

As Erin Patterson was sentenced, her sole surviving victim Ian Wilkinson called for privacy and kindness.
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