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Murder Trial Continues For Ex-'Survivor' Producer: Bruce Beresford-Redman For The Death Of His Wife Monica Beresford-Redman

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Post by lisette Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:33 am

CANCUN, Mexico -- A judge in Mexico issued an arrest warrant Monday for a former "Survivor" producer suspected in the killing of his wife while on vacation with their children at a Cancun resort, the state attorney general said.

Francisco Alor, the state attorney general in Quintana Roo state, said prosecutors would initiate extradition proceedings soon seeking to return TV producer Bruce Beresford-Redman from the United States.

Prosecutors will seek "international collaboration" in the return of Beresford-Redman once they have officially confirmed his whereabouts, Alor said.

Beresford-Redman has denied any involvement in the death last month of his wife, Monica Beresford-Redman.

Police detained the husband briefly and then released him after confiscating his passport and telling him not to leave Mexico. But Beresford-Redman returned to Southern California and stated in court documents there that he had been living with his two children for more than a week.


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His attorney, Richard Hirsch, said in a statement before the warrant was confirmed that issuing an arrest warrant was a rush to judgment.

"We have been advised that Mexican authorities have issued a warrant for the arrest of Bruce Beresford-Redman," he said. That "is extremely disturbing since it appears that this case is being handled in a manner outside the normal procedures in Mexico."

Hirsch said his client is innocent and prepared to defend himself in court.

He also issued the first public statement from Beresford-Redman:

"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," it said. "I am devastated at her loss; and I am incensed at the suggestion that I could have had anything to do with her death. I am innocent. 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."

Monica Beresford-Redman's body was found April 8 in a sewer at the Moon Palace Hotel resort in Cancun. Investigators have said her body showed signs of asphyxiation and evidence of a heavy blow to the right temple.

They said Beresford-Redman told them he last saw her after she left the resort to go shopping and never returned. Prosecutors say he reported her missing two days before her body was found.

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Post by Nama Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:42 pm

Sisters in 'Survivor' Case -- Put the Will To the Test
8/19/2010 2:40 PM PDT by TMZ Staff

The sisters of Bruce Beresford-Redman's murdered wife think her signature was forged on a will -- and now they're asking the court to let a handwriting expert determine if it's legit.
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Long story short, Monica had two wills -- one from 2004 which says Monica's sister gets custody of their two children ... and a 2008 will that gives custody to the godfather of one of the kids.

In documents filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, Monica's sisters ask the judge to let them have a handwriting expert analyze Monica's signatures to determine which draft is the real deal. According to the papers, they think Monica's signature on the 2008 will is fake.

Bruce's parents currently have custody of the kids. Bruce continues to fight extradition to Mexico where he's been charged with Monica's murder.

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Post by Nama Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:43 pm

September 14, 2010 - 4:21pm

Bruce Beresford-Redman and his mother deny allegations by his sisters-in-law that his children have learned inappropriate behavior in his household, including how to make an obscene hand gesture.

The producer lives with his parents, who have been temporary guardians of their son's children, 5-year-old Camila and 3-year-old Alec, since the slaying of their mother earlier this year.

"I have never seen either of the children make this gesture and I am surprised to hear that Camila knows about raising her middle finger in an obscene gesture," Juanita Beresford-Redman says in a sworn declaration. "My only thought is that she have seen it on the playground, but I heard this among the other parents."

The grandmother's statement and one by her son were submitted Monday to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff.

He is scheduled Friday to hear motions by the paternal grandparents asking for changes in the visitation privileges that the children's maternal aunts, Jeane Burgos and Carla Van Bastelaar, have with their niece and nephew.

Van Bastelaar said in a declaration opposing changes in visitation that she was "shocked" to learn during an Aug. 31 visit with the children that Camila knew how to make an obscene gesture with her middle finger.

"I certainly have never done that in front of the children and I have never seen Jeane make that gesture in front of the children either," she said.

And in her sworn statement, Burgos says Alec told her that his father told him how to make the gesture.

Monica Beresford-Redman's body was found in April in a sewer at the Moon Palace Hotel in Cancun, where the West Los Angeles restaurant owner was vacationing with her husband.

An arrest warrant has been issued in Mexico, where he is charged with his wife's killing.

Juanita Beresford-Redman and her husband, David Beresford-Redman, want supervised visitation of the aunts' visits with the children on grounds they have repeatedly said negative things to the boy and girl about their father.

"They told me daddy was a stupid old man and he killed my mommy," Camila said, according to her paternal grandmother.

In his own declaration, Bruce Beresford-Redman says the alleged comments by his sisters-in-law are regrettable.

"I am saddened to say that it appears Carla and Jeane are using the children as pawns in a battle they wish to have with me," the former "Survivor' producer says. "I am no longer comfortable with my children having unmonitored visitation with their maternal aunts."

He said that he and his parents have "carefully avoided making any negative comments about the maternal aunts."

In her declaration, Burgos says Alec was with her when she passed through the alcoholic beverages section of a supermarket last month and her nephew pointed to certain brand of beer and said it was the one he liked.

"When I asked him if he liked beer, he told me that Palma Louca was the beer daddy gives him to drink,' Burgos stated. "I was shocked by this statement, so I asked Camila if what Alec was saying was true. Camila said their father gave them beer and wine twice."

Responding to Burgos' statement, Bruce Beresford-Redman says in his declaration that he did nothing harmful to his son.

"I have let Alec drink water out of a beer bottle so that he could feel like a big guy,' he says. "It is not something we do regularly, and I am very clear with my children about the effects of drinking alcohol."

He says he also sometimes jokes with his daughter about wine and has make-believe conversations with her about whether she wants the beverage with her dinner.

"I then say, 'Oh, that's right. You are only 19,' and she laughs and tells me she is 5,' Bruce Beresford-Redman says. "These are the types of parenting choices and events that I should not have to explain, let alone be part of a court record.'

Beckloff is scheduled to preside over a trial -- set for Nov. 8 -- to decide permanent custody of the children.

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Post by NiteSpinR Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:41 am

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Bruce Beresford-Redman, a former associate producer of the popular U.S. television series Survivor, is on trial in a district court here for first degree murder. But a local news service monitoring the case reports the state's prosecution may be in serious jeopardy due to clumsy mistakes by prosecutors, and predicts the judge will be forced to free him. "He's got one foot out of jail," it wrote today.

In November 2010 Bruce Beresford-Redman was charged with murdering his wife, Mónica Burgos, while the two were on vacation here in April of the same year. A local judge conducted a preliminary hearing in February 2012 and found sufficient evidence to hold the ex-producer for a full trial. Beresford-Redman later tried to short circuit the trial by legal maneuvering, but was unsuccessful.

Prosecutors allege that Beresford-Redman killed Burgos during a heated argument. Her body was found in a drainage lagoon near the Moon Palace resort after he reported to authorities that she was missing. Both the cause and time of her death are hotly disputed by the defense. Prosecutors allege that an ongoing affair with another woman was one of Beresford-Redman's motives.

After the discovery of his wife's body Cancún police told Beresford-Redman that he was a suspect in the case, and instructed him not to leave the city. He did so anyway, fleeing to Los Angeles. He was arrested there in late 2010 on an international warrant, and waged a long but unsuccessful fight to avoid extradition to Mexico. Beresford-Redman was returned to Cancún in chains in early 2012.

The Q.R. press reports the prosecution's case has been "plagued with irregularities" from the outset, including the "disappearance" of virtually all the evidence seized by forensic investigators at the scene where Burgos' body was discovered, and in the couple's hotel room. For reasons unknown, a former director of state forensic services apparently ordered the destruction of clothing, hair and blood stain samples. Compounding those errors, the original crime reconstruction specialist - who was to have offered expert opinion on how and where the homicide occurred - was replaced by another technician who only recently entered the case. The trial judge refused to admit that expert's testimony, leaving the state's case in shambles. Dismissal of the murder charge, reports the paper, may be inevitable.

The Brazilian born Burgos was 43 at the time of her death. Prosecution evidence shows that she suffered a violent blow to the head which caused her to lose consciousness immediately. She died from a cerebral hemorrhage and asphyxia, according to medical evidence presented at the trial.

At a snail's pace - that's the best way to described the ongoing murder trial of Bruce Beresford-Redman, which is far from over months after it opened in Cancún. Agents from the state Servicios Periciales de la Procuraduría de Justicia - the Forensic Services unit - were cross-examined Thursday, and according to a local press source, things aren't looking any better for prosecutors as a result. That's because most of the critical evidence was destroyed even before the trial began. Cynics and conspiracy theorists will have a ready explanation for that, perhaps, but it may be nothing more than gross negligence.
The inconsistencies in the case against the American have buoyed his defense attorneys, who confirmed that it's only a matter of time until their client is freed." BBR will be very pleased at that thought - until he receives an itemized invoice "FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RENDERED," that is.

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