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A woman accused of manipulating her doting husband into becoming a killer assured cops she was not a psycho.
Under questioning from Victoria Police’s homicide squad’s camera, Biannca Edmunds goes through a range of emotions – from happy and sad to indignant and angry.
A Supreme Court of Victoria jury was this week shown two taped records of interview Edmunds participated in with police over allegations she had masterminded what turned out to be a bungled hit on her ex-lover.
Biannca Edmunds awaits to be interviewed by police for the first time in 2016
Biannca Edmunds leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria during her Supreme Court of Victoria trial in Melbourne this month
Michael Caposiena died after he was shot in the head in March 2016. Glen Cassidy then tried to shoot his girlfriend, but had only taken one bullet to the hit
It is alleged Edmunds, 35, convinced her husband Glen Cassidy, 51, to carry out the hit on Michael Caposiena through a mix of kinky sex and manipulation.
Mr Caposiena – the estranged father of her toddler son – had made the deadly mistake of expressing a desire to have greater access with their child, it is alleged.
Cassidy bled to death after shooting Mr Caposiena dead in the botched assassination at his West Meadows home, north of Melbourne, in March 2016.
It took police years to charge Edmunds over her alleged role in the crime.
Her arrest in June 2019 followed an exhaustive police investigation, which saw homicide squad detective Senior Constable Michael Cashman interrogate Edmunds twice.
Biannca Edmunds has been accused of directing her husband Glen Cassidy (both pictured) to kill Michael Caposiena
The jury has heard Edmunds’ arrest came on the back of a mix of forensic evidence allegedly linking her to the crime, including her fingerprint on a bloody map, and a text message police claim she sent to herself from Cassidy’s phone on the day of the murder.
Seven months after the incident, Edmunds agreed to be interviewed for the first time – without a lawyer – by Senior Constable Cashman.
The jury watched on as the detective asked Edmunds a series of questions about her life for near on an hour before reaching the questions he really wanted answered.
‘What would (Glen) possibly have to gain personally (from killing her ex)?’ the detective began to ask before Edmunds cut him off.
‘He would have gone to jail,’ Edmunds responded in a high-pitched tone. ‘He would have lost us as well.’
Edmunds denied she had ever mentioned to Cassidy that she wished her ex harm.
‘I have never wished anyone dead,’ she said.
‘Really?’ the detective responded.
‘I highly doubt it, because I’m not a psycho,’ she fired back.
Biannca Edmunds turns on the water works during her 2016 record of interview
Annoyed, happy; Biannca Edmunds’ 2016 record of interview saw her go through a range of emotions
Glen Cassidy’s blood was splattered all over the porch after he tried to batter a woman to death. He bled out and died shortly after.
A text message sent from Glen Cassidy’s phone on the day he murdered Biannca Edmunds’ ex-lover
As the interview progressed, Edmunds, who appeared to mostly avoid eye contact with her interrogator, looked the detective in the eye and repeated tearfully: ‘I didn’t. I didn’t encourage him. I didn’t.’
Edmunds further denied penning the bloody map found on Cassidy’s dead body or sending Cassidy’s final, well worded text message.
‘I would of at least put full stops in there,’ she said.
Before Senior Constable Cashman began turning the screws, Edmunds had told him Cassidy hated reading and writing altogether.
‘He avoided it. He avoided it at all costs,’ she said.
The jury had previously seen a poorly written note written by Cassidy leading up to the murder.
Listed under ‘opsticols’ – the near illiterate Cassidy’s reference to obstacles – he noted only having access to one bullet.
Cassidy would use that solitary bullet to kill Mr Caposiena before firing his empty sawn-off rifle at his victim’s girlfriend, Silvana Silva, who lived to tell the tale.
The former fitness instructor had tried to bash Ms Silva to death on the front porch before he bled out from knife wounds inflicted upon him by Mr Caposiena before he shot him dead.
Before concluding her 2015 police interview, Edmunds embarked on a rant in which she denounced all things illegal.
‘I do not agree with firearms around children. I do not agree with a lot. I do not agree with text driving. I have digs at people about that. I friggin don’t go out and off myself on alcohol. I go and have an okay time every now and again every couple of months, but I stay legal,’ she said.
Glen Cassidy made a ‘To-Do’ list, which included ‘obstacles’ to the murder plot and his desire to have ‘much more sex’
The sawn-off rifle Glen Cassidy used to murder Michael Caposiena. Biannca Edmunds’ DNA was allegedly found on the gun
Detectives would not catch-up with Edmunds again until April 4, 2018.
By that stage the alleged killer had given birth to her third child and moved to the ACT.
While away, detectives had been busy interviewing Edmunds friends, family and a boyfriend she hooked-up with just weeks after her husband was killed in action.
Last week Todd Bookham – who did almost eight years jail time for cutting his former wife’s throat and stabbing her step sister in front of her six-year old son – told the jury Edmunds allegedly confessed to him that she had planned the execution of her ex-lover.
‘She was going on about how Glen wasn’t meant to die and it’s all her fault … she was telling me that they had drawn a map so that if he was to go there and, and kill um, sorry, what’s his name?’ Bookham said.
Edmunds dismissed Bookham’s claims during her 2018 record of interview.
Dressed in a bright floral t-shirt, Edmunds again was put through the motions by Senior Constable Cashman before he cut to the chase.
‘This is a guy who went to jail for attempted murder,’ Edmunds barked at him.
‘Yep,’ the seemingly ice cool detective responded.
‘And you’re believing him?’ she asked, shaking her head in disbelief.
‘This is a guy who went to jail for attempted murder,’ Edmunds barked at Senior Constable Cashman during her 2018 interview
Edmunds grabs her face while going through the motions during her ACT interview in 2018
At the close of the interview, which went for near on the same length as the 2016 one, Senior Constable Cashman suggested to Edmunds that the time for conversations was nearing its end.
‘I’m not going to discuss with you who I have or have not spoken to, but needless to say I have spoken to a lot of people and I still have a number of people I still wish to talk to,’ he said.
Edmunds had heard a similar statement from him towards the end of her 2016 interview.
‘Look I’ve spoken to a lot of people Biannca, I want to assure you I have spoken to a lot of people during the course of this investigation,’ Senior Constable Cashman told her then.
The jury heard Edmunds told police she would not be so stupid as to confess crimes to people she hardly knew.
‘Why would I talk to somebody I barely even know about such important things,’ she had told Senior Constable Cashman.
But the jury has heard allegations Edmunds would make confessions to all kinds of people, including two prisoners she shared time with while briefly inside Dame Phyllis Frost Centre on remand.
The pair, who cannot be named due to legal reasons, provided sordid details of Edmunds’ alleged actions leading up to Cassidy’s bungled hit – evidence which also cannot be revealed due to legal reasons.
As the trial neared its conclusion on Thursday, the jury was played a series of phone calls between Cassidy and his wife.
For reasons unknown, Cassidy had installed a phone app which he used to record numerous conversations.
While many of the calls appear to depict a desperately love-struck Cassidy pining for Edmunds’ love, some captured him speaking in code with his bikie brother in what police allege was an attempt to source a gun.
A hat stating ‘Fear The Reaper’ was found near where Cassidy’s bloody body was located
Cassidy was found with a bloody map outlining where CCTV cameras would be and barking dogs. Police claim the map had been created by Biannca Edmunds
Mr Caposiena had managed to stab Cassidy in the moments before he was shot through the head
Edmunds, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, has been accused of threatening to leave Cassidy if he did not carry out the murder.
‘If you were a real man and you had any f**king balls, you’d go and deal with this bloke,’ Edmunds allegedly told Cassidy.
‘You’re a spineless coward. You’re not a real man at all.’
The jury heard Edmunds also had plans to profit from her ex-partner’s demise by making a cruel legal challenge on his estate on behalf of their child.
A court later ticked-off on half of the value of Mr Capasiena’s $600,000 estate despite Ms Silva still being alive.
Leading up to his murder, Mr Caposiena had enjoyed six supervised visits with his son and was due to front court to apply for unsupervised access.
The jury heard Edmunds was determined not to allow that to happen.
Edmunds allegedly told multiple people, including her own family members, that she had wanted Mr Caposiena killed.
‘I want Michael out of the way, I want him gone, I wish he’d just leave us alone and not try for (their son),’ she allegedly said.
The trial is expected to conclude on Thursday.
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