As “Super -SUT” Erin Paterson became a real obsession with a crime

Over the years, Erin Paterson has created a reputation on the Internet community of true crime as a “Super Sleuth” from the computer screen.

Today, it itself has become a real obsession with a crime.

When three people were killed, and another heavily ill-food used in his home in rural Victoria, in rural Victoria two years ago, all his life was put under the microscope.

Journalists descended from all over the world to cover its long trial over the murder, the audience took the queue daily to take a place in the courtroom, and thousands of people chose the details of the case on the Internet.

But despite the jury earlier this week, finding her guilty on all accusations, the madness of speculation and the depth of admiration only intensified.

“He has shades of Macbeth,” said the criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Mono.

It was in one of the smallest courts in Australia that his largest test has taken place in recent history.

For 11 weeks, seven documentary teams threw a lens on the tiny city of Morvel. There were a dozen pennies here. Journalists encountered six places registered for the media every day. Even one of Australia’s favorite authors, Helen Garner, is often thrown by the Latrobe Valley legal vessels, nourishing the rumors that she is preparing to write another bestseller.

Most of the lawsuits were the turn of the trial outside the building.

Come rain, frost or fog, court observers – mostly women who often lasted in hats and drowned into sleeping bags – watched the glass doors.

Once inward, they would pave the line of things – scarves, water bottles, notebooks, bags – at the entrance to the courtroom to book their place.

Tami Eglstone has moved for more than an hour to reach the marvel most days of trial. “I am a little fanatics of the crime,” she explains.

She was in court when he heard evidence that Paterson once looked like her.

Paterson was an active participant of the Facebook group focused on Kelly Lane, a woman who was found guilty of killing her two -day daughter in one of Australia’s most famous cases.

In 2018, Lane became the subject of the main podcast after writing a journalist, who claimed that he had been convicted and asked to investigate.

At Paterson’s court, one of her friends on the Internet, Christina Hunt, said she was famous among her peers for agile research and technical skills.

“She was a little super -Sutu,” she said. “She was highly appreciated in this group.”

But when her case unfolded in the marvel, Paterson was also admitted to the court of public opinion.

It became a water reflection in workplaces across the country, gossip among groups of friends and the final topic of discussions on the Internet.

Thousands of people theorized the motive of the crime, comments on evidence, and even allegedly corrupt forces stood behind the case – most of the discussion exceeded, almost all this violation of laws aimed at giving the defendants a fair trial.

Memes filled the social media channels. On Google Maps someone created a restaurant on the Paterson’s home address. Others shared the bingo cards that they created for those who closely monitor it.

During the week, the jurors considered their verdict, which sequestered at the hotel to protect them from the maelstrom, the question that was all: what did they think?

“What are they doing there?” One lawyer overheard, asking the Morwell cafe on the fourth day of reflection.

We will never know with the members of the jury with strict requirements of secrecy.

“In the US, they can interview the jury after the trial,” said the criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Mora in the BBC. “We cannot get into the head of the jury in Australia … Therefore, it is very difficult to find out what they think about and why they came to this conclusion.”

This leaves a massive vacuum for the members of the public to fill their assumptions.

People like Mrs. Egglstone thought: if the poisoning was intended for the murder, or not planning Paterson and shot it better?

“I go here (as) Switzerland,” explained Ms Eglstone, calling the discourse around the “very rifle”.

“You know, (it’s) she’s guilty, she’s guilty, she is guilty.

“And many of them use back reasoning.” If I was in this situation, I wouldn’t do it, that’s it. “Well, you don’t know what you would do in this situation.”

But such as her, the muted Horde, proclaiming Paterson guilty.

Many said that it was her lie. Some claimed that the data showed a clear lack of empathy and concern to those who died.

“What he actually gave her to white pants when she had a” gastr “and he needed to go to the hospital!” One person posted, citing video surveys about his movements in the days after lunch, which was held at the trial.

The case has already been inspired by a television special series with a silver screen, “Bevi” podcasts, several documentaries and several books.

“He has typical clichés that make a true crime,” said Ms Eglsstone, explaining why she became obsessed with this case.

“The fact is that she brought her family members … (she) white, female, financially stable, you know. And they are all church people.”

For David Peters, seemingly benign circumstances related to the crime – and the fact that it was in his local district – attracted him: “What it was a family that was sitting to do what you think is safe – and then the consequences of this food …”

Several people tell the BBC that the case reminds them of madness over the notorious trial of Lindy Cemberlen in 1982. She was falsely convicted of murder after her baby daughter Azaria was taken from Dingo.

It is no coincidence that both cases focus on women, Brendy Cocin’s criminology researcher tells the BBC.

The world has long been fascinated by women who kill – in a small part, because it contradicts their traditional “caring” gender role, they explain.

These stereotypes also throw a shadow on the time of Paterson in court.

“It is expected that it is acting in a certain way, but it is not,” says D -Rkon, a teacher of the University of Victoria.

“It’s like:” Oh, obviously, she is guilty, she doesn’t cry all the time, “or” it is obvious that she was lied to it. “The legal system itself treats women completely.”

In the distance from the exquisite ghost of the trial, there is anger – although it decreases – among the communities where the victims from the fact that the case was dissected, the local advisor Nathan Hersi tells the BBC.

He says Don and Gayl Paterson and Hiser Wilkinson respected and love many in the Southern Giplland region, but feels that they were forgotten.

“It was an extremely loud business that brought a lot of attention, often unwanted to our local community.

“(And) Some people did not have such humanity … They certainly lost their attention that there is a loss for people, there is grief.”