Monday 13 June 2022 09:16 PM Biannca Edmunds: Woman in deadly sex-triangle denies manipulating her husband ... trends now

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.