An evil sadistic mother who ordered her husband to kill her ex-lover has been found guilty of murder as her false alibi text messages are revealed.
Biannca Edmunds, 36, was convicted unanimously by a 12-person jury of the murder of her ex-boyfriend Michael Caposiena in Victoria’s High Court on Saturday.
The jury found that Edmunds ordered her new husband Glen Cassidy to kill his ex-partner in March 2016 and fake text messages to provide an alibi.
Edmunds had denied any involvement in the murder and insisted that Cassidy acted alone.
She sent herself several text messages from Cassidy’s phone to create a false alibi, writing, “I’m about to do something you would consider absolutely stupid” and “If I get caught, I want them to know you did it.” nothing to do with this’.
To these he replied from his own phone: “Don’t be so damn stupid.”
Biannca Edmunds (left) was found guilty of murder and instructed her husband Glen Cassidy (right) to kill her ex-lover Michael Caposiena at their south-west Melbourne home in 2016.
The trial heard that Edmunds and her former partner Michael Caposiena (pictured) had a son together and that she longed to spend more time with the child.
It was the second trial Edmunds has faced this year after the first jury failed to reach a verdict in June.
The new trial heard that Edmunds shared a son with Caposiena but longed to spend more time with him after being absent for the first two years of his life.
Prosecutor Neill Hutton said Edmunds manipulated her husband into committing the murder and concocted a plan to catch Caposiena off guard in their unit.
Hutton said Edmunds would use promises of “kinky sex” to control her husband, who was 20 years her senior.
“There is evidence that she told people while she was having sex with Mr. Cassidy that she would not let him have an orgasm until he promised to kill Michael,” he said.
Witnesses in the second trial included Ellen Edmunds, Biannca’s mother, who told the court that her daughter stated on numerous occasions that she wanted Mr. Caposiena out of her and her son’s lives (pictured, Biannca Edmunds expects to be interviewed by police for the first time in 2016)
The couple even went so far as to draw a map of their surroundings to note where the security cameras, street lights and barking dogs were.
The court also heard a series of phone calls recorded by Cassidy before the hit where the pair appear to speak in code.
“I’m completely blown away with this job,” Cassidy is heard saying during a call.
‘Well, just finish it,’ Edmunds replied.
“I’m trying,” Cassidy said.
Finish this job and move on. May the future be better,’ Edmunds told Cassidy.
‘We need less stress in our lives and I don’t feel like going to Legal Aid…I’m sick of it.’
Pictured is the sawed-off rifle Glen Cassidy used to assassinate Michael Caposiena.
Edmunds sent multiple text messages to each other from Cassidy’s phone to create a false alibi.
Police claimed that Cassidy would beg his wife for just two weeks to have sex and were led to believe that it would only happen once the hit was complete.
“Can we have sex tomorrow night?” Cassidy asked him on March 3, 2016.
‘I dont know. That depends on whether we’re celebrating or not,” Edmunds responded.
On March 12, 2016, Cassidy ambushed Caposiena at her home in Westmeadows, north-west Melbourne, when she answered the door.
However, Caposiena was alerted by his partner to the intruder outside his door and managed to stab Cassidy with a knife before being fatally shot in the head.
Cassidy ended up bleeding to death at the scene of the botched murder.
On March 12, 2016, Cassidy ambushed Caposiena at her home in West Meadows, north Melbourne, when she answered the door. However, Caposiena was alerted by Cassidy’s partner to her before she opened the door and managed to stab Cassidy with a knife before being fatally shot in the head (the scene of the botched murder is pictured).
The court heard that Edmunds was in Shepparton on the day her ex-lover was killed and was disappointed that her husband had not carried out the hit while she was in Darwin.
Witnesses in the second trial included Ellen Edmunds, Biannca’s mother, who told the court that her daughter had said on numerous occasions that she wanted Caposiena out of her and her son’s lives.
Paul Bonner, a friend of Cassidy’s, also gave a testimonial about how she called her husband ‘spineless’, ‘weak b***h’ and ‘cowardly’, as well as telling him: ‘If you were a real man, you would ‘ Take care of him’.
Judge Lex Lasry will sentence Edmunds at a later date.