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Speaker 1: Murray Old's Ossie correspondents with us. Nowheymas, hey here, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna afternoon. What's happened in the mushroom Cook trial today? Well,

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Speaker 1: the last prosecution witness is still in the court, Erin Patterson,

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Speaker 1: of course, the Victorian bum accused of three counts of

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Speaker 1: murdering family members by preparing a lunch using death cap mushrooms.

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Speaker 1: Now Mss Patterson's in laws died along with the sister

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Speaker 1: of her mother in law after she served them lunch

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Speaker 1: late July twenty twenty three. And as I say, the finalist,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's into the fifth week now this trial

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Speaker 1: down in Victoria. And the thing I've found really fascinating

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Speaker 1: is we're being taken behind the police investigation into this.

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Speaker 1: The evidence from the chief homicide officer who's investigated the case.

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Speaker 1: He was the fellow who interviewed Miss Patterson for the

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Speaker 1: first time. Now her barrister has been taking us inside

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Speaker 1: this investigation. They've been unlocking mobile telephones for retrieving data

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Speaker 1: and messengers on family threads. A many websites that relate

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Speaker 1: to the location of death cap mushrooms found in Victoria.

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Speaker 1: Online searches we understand carried out by Aaron Patterson books

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Speaker 1: that she bought, recipe books and the like. This is

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Speaker 1: day twenty two of the trial. She has of course

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Speaker 1: denied all charges. Now the big question for me this

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Speaker 1: afternoon is will her defense council, who's been conducting the

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Speaker 1: interrogation of the policeman for the last couple of three days,

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Speaker 1: will her defense council call Mss Patterson to give evidence.

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Speaker 1: So that's going to be the next fascinating chapter, I suggest, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I imagine. So, hey, what is this business with this

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Speaker 1: thirty year old missing person case? Well, a cold case

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Speaker 1: and a big reward, and it looks like there's been well,

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Speaker 1: there has been a breakthrough a couple of hours ago,

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Speaker 1: well late this morning, and arrest was made. This concerns

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Speaker 1: a forty nine year old woman last seen thirty years

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Speaker 1: ago December nineteen ninety three, down in Willongong, south of Sydney.

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Speaker 1: Now Inquiries Cold Case Inquiries decided to reopen this case

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Speaker 1: last year. At the same time there was a half

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Speaker 1: million dollar reward offered for information into the disappearance of

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Speaker 1: this woman and presumed murder of this woman all those

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Speaker 1: years ago. Now, a sixty four year old man is

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Speaker 1: in custody. Police confirming the reward has led to the

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Speaker 1: possible breakthrough in the case. Some clothing heather was recovered

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Speaker 1: last year, months after this reward was offered. And as

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Speaker 1: I say this fellow, now in custody, we're going to

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Speaker 1: find out more of the next day or three. Interesting Hey, listeners,

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Speaker 1: have we still not got figured out what on earth

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Speaker 1: is going in Bradfield? This is amazing. This is a

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Speaker 1: rock solid Liberal electorate in Sydney's North. The election, as

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Speaker 1: we all know, May the third. They're still counting. Incredibly,

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Speaker 1: there's about one hundred and twelve thousand people who cast

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Speaker 1: a ballot in Bradfield on that election day. Would you

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Speaker 1: believe the margin in the recount is a single vote.

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Speaker 1: This is a total vote tally of one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twelve thousand. The Australian Electric Commission ordered the recount four

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Speaker 1: days ago automatically. This happens when there's a margin of

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Speaker 1: fewer than one hundred votes. Now the Liberal candidate isn't

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Speaker 1: front by one single vote. She was eight in front

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Speaker 1: when the first bullets were counted. Again this week, and

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. Never she's already been confirmed as a

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Speaker 1: member of Susan Lee's shadow cabinet. Now, if she doesn't

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Speaker 1: get up, I'm not sure what's going to happen down

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Speaker 1: in Canberra. But her name is Giselle Capterian, very well

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Speaker 1: credentialed Liberal candidate. As I say, one vote in it.

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Speaker 1: This recount's going to go on for some time. They

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Speaker 1: count every primary vote, every preference vote, they count all

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Speaker 1: the informals and finally, not sure when, don't even ask me,

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Speaker 1: not sure when we're going to come to a final decision.

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Speaker 1: But the margin could not be tightle to right. Hey, Mars,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much appreciated. Murray Olds earlier correspond For more

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