While being questioned about a bloody blueprint found in her ex-pocket, lover’s a woman accused of orchestrating a botched hit sobbed to cops.
Biannca Edmunds, 35, said she had no recollection of ordering Glen Cassidy to kill Michael Caposiena, the estranged father of her young son, after he showed a wish to continue visiting their child.
Edmunds’ record of interview with homicide squad detectives after her arrest seven months after the horrifying killing was played before a Supreme Court of Victoria jury on Monday.
Edmunds, dressed in a blue sleeveless shirt, sobbed as she denied creating the map of her ex-home lover’s and a text message allegedly sent to her by Cassidy on the day he was slain.
Mr Caposiena was shot dead inside his West Meadows house, north of Melbourne, in March 2016, and Cassidy bled to death.
His bloody body was discovered outside the murder house, next to a cap with the words “Fear The Reaper” written on it.
Edmunds said police she met Cassidy after hired him as her personal trainer, despite the fact that he was more than 20 years her senior.
Edmunds claimed to know nothing about the attack other than what she had heard in the media when asked about it.
‘All I know is that there was a fight,’ she says.
Edmunds, who police say manipulated Cassidy into carrying out the murder, told detectives that it was Cassidy who was unhappy over her ex-attempts lover’s to see their two-year-old son.
‘Glen was fed up with the way we were being treated,’ she explained.
Edmunds asserted Mr Caposiena had begged to be called ‘daddy,’ and Cassidy wanted the child to inherit his surname.
Mr Caposiena had been stalking her in the days running up to his murder, she claimed, and had slipped into her residence and turned on the gas stove.
‘I started to get scared,’ she claimed.
When probed about her previous relationship with Mr Caposiena, Edmunds became angry in front of the jurors.
When she recalled her relationship with Cassidy, who she claimed was depressed at the time after losing his job, her demeanor shifted.
Edmunds told detectives that Cassidy’s three children had moved in with him and that their mother was a “psychopath.”
‘They choose to live here,’ she explained.
When Edmunds was asked about Cassidy’s death, his grin turned to tears once more.
The jury was shown surveillance footage of Cassidy scoping out Mr Caposiena’s home before unleashing his fatal attack on Monday.
They were also shown photos of Mr Caposiena’s girlfriend Silvana Silva’s bruised face, which Cassidy had bashed in the moments after the incident.
He had attempted to shoot her as well, but had only loaded one bullet into his pistol.
Cassidy died of a heart attack before he could assassinate Ms Silva, leaving his schnitzel meal unfinished in his car.
Edmunds’ pocket had a bloody map of his victim’s home, which he allegedly drew himself.
He’d sent Edmunds a well-written text message in which he took full responsibility for what he was about to do.
Edmunds told police that she and Cassidy had clashed earlier that day over plans to rent an RV for a family vacation.
‘I have no recollection of the rest of the day,’ she said again.
The jurors sat there as cops interrogated Edmunds about Cassidy’s command of the English language, which he lacked.
Edmunds admitted, ‘I did not type that message.’
Edmunds became irritated and cried again when he was shown the map found on Cassidy.
She also denied purchasing the gun used in the murder and assisting in the plotting of her ex’s assassination.
‘That’s ridiculous,’ she sobbed.
Edmunds allegedly spilled her guts about her role in the botched hit to a man she met on Tinder just weeks after her husband’s murder, according to the jury.
Todd Bookham, who served nearly eight years in prison for slitting his ex-throat wife’s and stabbing her step-sister in front of her six-year-old kid, met Edmunds, a mother of three, just weeks after the murders.
Edmunds confessed to Bookham soon after providing police the December 2016 interview record, according to the jurors.
Edmunds was positive that police knew she had given Cassidy’s phone a text message in which he allegedly accepted sole responsibility for his acts.
‘They’re attempting to contact me via a text message that I sent to Glen.’ On her way home, Edmunds allegedly told Bookham, “I had Glen to send to and they’re – and they’re onto it.”
‘And they’re going to get me regardless,’ says the narrator.
The jurors witnessed Edmunds’ distress as the text message from Cassidy’s phone was given to him.
According to authorities, she reacted 45 minutes after it was sent.
She told cops, ‘Oh my god, I can’t even remember this anymore.’ ‘I’ve taken that out of the equation.’
Last week, Bookham told the jury Edmunds was distraught when she grabbed a knife and placed it to her own throat later that day.
‘She just said she’d had enough of it all, like the cops bothering her and everything.’ And she wanted to go to the police station and turn herself in,’ he told the jurors.
Edmunds admitted Cassidy died as a result of her, according to Bookham.
‘She was ranting about how Glen wasn’t supposed to be with her.’
The jury heard last week Edmunds is accused of manipulating Cassidy to do her alleged evil bidding by using a deadly mix of scathing abuse and kinky sex.
‘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.