
Former Survivor producer Bruce Beresford-Redman has been charged in his wife Monica Beresford-Redman’s murder and Mexican authorities have issue a warrant for his arrest on Monday (May 31). The 41 year-old mother-of-two was found dead in a sewer at a Cancun resort on April 8 (read more details here). She was strangled and the official cause of death is “asphyxia by suffocation.”
The couple’s relationship was going through a rough patch after Monica discovered her husband had been maintaining an affair with casting director Joy Pierce (photos here). Bruce and Monica reportedly went to Mexico to try to save their marriage. Monica did not return.
Despite having returned to the US against Mexican authorities wished, Bruce claims he is innocent and demands justice. The reality TV producer’s lawyer, Richard G. Hirsch, claims his client was a victim of a “rush to judgment”, but is prepared to defend himself in a court of law.
“I am devastated at her loss; and I am incensed at the suggestion that I could have had anything to do with her death,” Bruce Beresford-Redman says in a statement. “I am innocent.”
“Monica was the axis around which our whole family revolved. From her sisters and parents to my parents and of course to our children and me, she was everything to us,” Bruce, 39, said. “My children have had one parent taken from them by a senseless act of violence. I implore the Mexican authorities not to take their remaining parent by a miscarriage of justice and to do what is right not just what is expedient.”
Bruce is now a wanted man. Mexican authorities are ready to seek his extradition if necessary. The kids, Camila (5) and Alec (3), are currently under temporary guardianship of Bruce’s parents. Monica’s family is not happy with the decision and plan to fight for the custody of the children.