The woman who cooked a meal that is believed to have contained poisonous mushrooms and led to the deaths of three people gives a lengthy written statement to police detailing her account of what happened, and revealing she was hospitalised after the incident.
As someone who forages for wild mushrooms, I would like to point out that death caps don’t resemble edible mushrooms. They are an amanita and are fairly distinctive. Obviously people do die eating these after somehow thinking they were edible, but it’s an amateur mistake.
So in that case, that adds yet another layer of suspicion as someone would have to be very inept then to add that to a mix. I’m assuming that even when dried, it’s obvious to people in the know that these mushrooms aren’t your normal ones? I was considering before that maybe the dessication angle could have been some kind of an attempt at an alibi.
It would not be so noticeable after they’ve been dehydrated and chopped up, no. They should still be identifiable as an amanita if they’re dehydrated and not chopped up, but it would be harder. But whoever gathered the mushroom should have been able to identify it as inedible, unless they were very inexperienced (and thus not likely to be somebody who forages and sells to stores).