Black widow killer Biannca Edmunds convinced her lovestruck husband to assassinate her ex-partner through kinky sex involving the murder weapon.
Daily Mail Australia can finally reveal the full depths of depravity Edmunds reached to convince her husband Glen Cassidy, 51, to kill Michael Caposiena after a court imposed gag order expired on December 31.
Edmunds, 35, was found guilty of murder on December 17 during her third Supreme Court of Victoria trial in Melbourne.
Biannca Edmunds directed her husband Glen Cassidy (both pictured) to kill Michael Caposiena
Biannca Edmunds leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria during her first Supreme Court of Victoria trial in Melbourne
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
What couldn’t be revealed then was that Edmunds was brought undone by the evidence of two prisoners, whose identities had been protected throughout her multiple trials.
Convicted fraudster Marina Loprese claimed Edmunds had confided all the dirty details about how she manipulated Cassidy through sex to become an assassin.
Caged with her inside the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Edmunds spilled her guts.
I used to tie Glen up in bed so he couldn’t move and I would get on top of him and ride him while I held the gun.
‘She used to f**k him to turn him on with the gun and she used to lick the gun and he used to get really excited,’ Loprese told the jury.
Loprese said Edmunds admitted to using her body as a tool to manipulate her husband into doing her evil bidding.
‘She would just use (it) all the time. Her body. All the time with Glen and he would do anything she wanted,’ she told the court.
‘He didn’t want to do it at first but she eventually got him to do it and he said he would kill him … So she used her – sex. She used her body with Glen a lot to always encourage him to, to kill him.’
The prisoner claimed Edmunds told Cassidy during sex that his murderous actions would make her feel as though she had done it herself.
‘Once he does it, it’ll feel like she had actually pulled the trigger or she, she killed him. It’ll feel like she killed him,’ Loprese said.
The court heard Edmunds would refuse to allow Cassidy to orgasm unless he agreed to murder Mr Caposiena.
‘She used to use sex and she wouldn’t let him um, orgasm and stuff like that, come, whatever, until he would say he’d do it and it was, it was a game for him until it became serious and he did say that he would kill, he would kill him for her,’ Loprese told the jury.
Biannca Edmunds awaits to be interviewed by police for the first time in 2016
The court heard Edmunds told the inmate she wanted Mr Caposiena dead so she could cash in on his superannuation and Cassidy behind bars so she could be free of him too.
‘The plan was that he was to go to jail and that she would get all his – ah, as his wife, she would get all his um, you know, his home or whatever, and his assets,’ Loprese said.
Edmunds branded Cassidy an ‘idiot’ for getting himself killed during his botched assassination.
‘Glen wasn’t supposed to die,’ Edmunds told Loprese. ‘The idiot got himself killed.’
It was Mr Caposiena’s decision to ignore Edmunds’ sexual manipulation of him that ultimately led to his grim fate.
‘She said she couldn’t control him anymore. She used to be able to control him and he would do everything she wanted, but she couldn’t do that anymore … she couldn’t control him anymore with sex,’ Loprese told the jury.
Former solicitor Josephine Gonzalez, who is serving nine and a half years with a non parole period of seven years for fraud, had shared a cell with Edmunds while she was awaiting trial.
Like Loprese, Gonzalez claimed Edmunds told her she could wrap Cassidy around her finger through ‘sexual favours’.
‘They would both get turned on with certain things,’ she said.
Gonzalez claimed those things mostly revolved around murdering Mr Caposiena.
The sawn-off rifle Glen Cassidy used to murder Michael Caposiena. Biannca Edmunds’ DNA was allegedly found on the gun. She would use it as a sex toy
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.
Biannca Edmunds during her 2016 record of interview
‘I used to tie Glen up in bed so he couldn’t move and I would get on top of him and ride him while I held the gun,’ Edmunds told Gonzalez.
‘And I would say to him, “Tell me how much you want to kill him. Will you do it? I won’t let you come until you say yes”.’
Gonzalez claimed Edmunds used the murder weapon to motivate Cassidy during depraved sex sessions.
‘Glen used to like to rough me up during sex, and he liked to hold his gun and f**k me,’ Edmunds told the prisoner.
‘I loved seeing him hold his gun, it turned me on.’
The evidence provided by the two inmates proved damning despite Edmunds’ barrister’s best efforts to discredit them.
A jury in June had somehow been unable to come to a verdict, which meant the entire trial had to be run again.
A subsequent trial
Edmunds had been free in the community during her trials after convincing a judge she needed to be home to care for her children – whom she will now only see as children again from behind bulletproof glass.
While the evidence provided by the prisoners painted a grim picture for Edmunds’ chances of freedom, the jury was presented a swag of damning evidence against her.
Mr Caposiena had managed to stab Cassidy in the moments before he was shot through the head
A hat stating ‘Fear The Reaper’ was found near where Cassidy’s bloody body was located
The court heard Cassidy had kept a series of recorded phone conversations between himself and Edmunds.
‘Can we have sex tomorrow night,’ Cassidy asked her on March 3, 2016.
‘I don’t know. That depends on if we’re celebrating or not,’ Edmunds responded.
Police had alleged Edmunds convinced Cassidy to carry out the hit on Mr 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.
Cassidy bled to death after shooting Mr Caposiena dead in the botched assassination at his West Meadows home, north of Melbourne, on March 12 that year.
In a series of phone calls recorded by Cassidy leading up to the hit, Edmunds could be heard speaking in code about the planned assassination.
For reasons unknown, Cassidy had installed a phone app which he used to record numerous conversations.
‘I am completely over this job,’ Cassidy is heard complaining during one call.
‘Well, just finish it,’ Edmunds replied.
‘I’m trying,’ Cassidy said.
‘Finish this job and move on. Let the future be better,’ Edmunds told Cassidy.
‘We need less stress in our lives and I’m not looking forward having to go to Legal Aid … I’m sick of it.’
Glen Cassidy had left a chicken schnitzel meal in his car while performing a hit job for his wife
Glen Cassidy, who could hardly string a word together, made a killer to do list
Police claimed Biannca Edmunds penned this text message for Cassidy to send to her in a pathetic attempt to create an alibi
Edmunds had pleaded not guilty to her ex-lover’s murder, claiming Cassidy had acted alone.
The jury heard Edmunds had hoped Cassidy would get the ‘work’ done while she was thousands of kilometres away in Darwin.
‘Concentrate, don’t stuff up, pay attention,’ she told Cassidy in one call.
The jury heard Cassidy pined over his wife while he travelled to and from Melbourne casing out his victim’s home.
‘I’ve never, ever loved someone like I love you,’ he told her during one display of affection.
‘It’s the truth. When I’m away from you I hurt.’
Edmunds responded with cold silence.
Many of the recorded calls played to the jury revolved around Cassidy searching for signs of affection from Edmunds – going so far as to suggest having a pink butterfly tattooed over an offending tattoo.
‘I bet you look beautiful,’ he gushed. ‘Wanna hear me drink my coffee?
‘I love you,’ Cassidy said in another call.
‘I know,’ Edmunds responded.
The pair repeatedly expressed frustration as Cassidy’s target failed to return home night after night.
Biannca Edmunds outside a Melbourne court in May. She will spend years behind bars
‘Hope things go better tonight. Hope there’s someone there,’ Cassidy complained to his wife.
‘Well it’s Sunday, they probably went away,’ Edmunds responded.
‘Frigging annoying … but you gotta do what you gotta do,’ Cassidy said.
‘I know,’ Edmunds replied.
Cassidy was heard telling Edmunds about an unexpected dog present next door to his supposed ‘workplace’.
He had bled out on the night of the bungled hit with a bloody map found on him highlighting where noisy dogs might be located.
Police claimed it was a map made by Edmunds herself.
Upon nearing the end of her Darwin getaway, a seemingly frustrated Cassidy told her he was determined to get the ‘job’ done.
‘I don’t want to leave it at all. It has to be done,’ Cassidy told Edmunds.
‘I know,’ Edmunds responded.
‘I’ll have to go back tomorrow night and get this finished,’ Cassidy assured her.
Glen Cassidy broke his gun while trying to bash Mr Caposiena’s girlfriend to death outside their apartment
A piece of the gun used to execute Mr Caposiena. His killer had taken just one bullet to do the job
The jury heard Cassidy was made to feel Edmunds would leave him should he not carry out the murder.
Edmunds was heard repeatedly taunting Cassidy on the phone about a good looking young friend of his, who appeared to be showing her interest while she was in Darwin.
Night after night Cassidy told Edmunds of his failed ‘work shifts’ in Melbourne.
‘I’ll get this job finished today,’ Cassidy was heard saying.
Edmunds responded: ‘I hope you do. I wanna celebrate. I bought you a present.’
‘I wanna celebrate too. Friggin trust me. I’ll try my hardest, you know that,’ Cassidy said.
‘Just don’t get all funny after the job,’ Edmunds warned him. ‘Don’t hurt yourself.’
‘No that won’t happen,’ Cassidy assured her. ‘She’ll be right.’
Edmunds was repeatedly heard telling an increasingly anxious Cassidy to ‘enjoy’ himself.
But by the time she reached Darwin airport to come home, her frustration was palpable.
‘Oh well just get it done then that way we won’t have to worry about it anymore,’ Edmunds told Cassidy.
‘Just go to work that way it’s over and done with and we don’t have anymore nights like this. It’s getting to everyone I think.’
The jury heard Edmunds’ was worried about Cassidy’s capacity to ‘work’ due to his complaints about failing to be able to sleep.
‘Cos you’re operating heavy machinery,’ she told him.
It took police years to charge Edmunds over her 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 heard Edmunds’ arrest came on the back of a mix of forensic evidence 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.
Edmunds denied she had ever mentioned to Cassidy that she wished her ex harm.
‘I have never wished anyone dead,’ she told the detective.
‘Really?’ the detective responded.
‘I highly doubt it, because I’m not a psycho,’ she fired back.
Cassidy would use a 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.
Annoyed, happy; Biannca Edmunds’ 2016 record of interview saw her go through a range of emotions
A text message sent from Glen Cassidy’s phone on the day he murdered Biannca Edmunds’ ex-lover
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 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.
Edmunds will face a pre-sentence hearing over the coming months.