Former "Survivor" Producer's Wife, Monica Beresford-Redman, Missing in Mexico

By: Edecio Martinez
Topics: Missing

Bruce and Monica Beresford-Redman (Personal Photo)

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (CBS/KCAL) It's been two days and there is still no sign of Monica Beresford-Redman, wife of former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman.

PICTURES: Monica Beresford-Redman Found Dead

She was at the Moon Palace Hotel in Cancun, Mexico with her husband and their two children. She left Monday to go shopping but never returned.

Carla Burgos, her sister, said Mexican police have finally started to investigate.

"We're really lost. It's like a really big mystery," Burgos told CBS affiliate KCAL.

Bruce Beresford-Redman spoke to KCAL by phone Wednesday, but couldn't say much because he was hoping to keep the phone lines clear.

"I'm very hopeful someone will find my wife very soon. She still hasn't been located and we're looking," he told the station.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirms they have a missing person's report and have notified the U.S. State Department and Embassy in Cancun.

In the meantime, family members said they are pleading for the public's help in this case asking anyone with information to come forward.

Monica Beresford-Redman was set to return Thursday, which would have been her birthday.

Story Contributed by CBS Affiliate KCAL

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by claudiasdd April 10, 2010 2:51 PM EDT: Everything is so obvious!!! It's just so obvious that this satan named Bruce killed his wife. Now, thanks to his bribes, his drinking margaritas in Cancun as he waits for his hooker (who also should be in jail)arrive and enjoy Monica's life insurance. He really planned this murder very well, that's why they went to Mexico (the bribing country). Scratches on his neck, witnesses who saw them fight on Monday night... umbelievable! Only Mexicans would release a case like this. But what most bothers me is that his parents are going to take care of the kids. His sister should take care of the kids not people that raised a murder. All I'm doing now is ask god to illuminate the American justice to give custody to her sister.; Reply to this comment


by carolcape April 8, 2010 10:55 PM EDT: Why do these women believe that there can be a reconciliation, how many times have we seen this. They continue to go back, which a lot of times is not the answer. It is a horrible thing to happen, especially when the children were on that trip. There was another such case not long ago in the US, the wife asked her lawyer should she go away for the weekend with her husband and children. The wife was found in the water off a wharf and he murdered her. The children were back at the hotel. He just got her away from them on her own and thought he would get away with it. It happens over and over again. This just eliminating a wife or husband has got to stop, it is pathetic that these men cannot work things out. Walk away, if you don't want the marriage, get a divorce. But murder the mother or your children. Women have to be more vigilant of their safety from the stranger beside them.; Reply to this comment


by kukulkan66 April 8, 2010 3:51 PM EDT: Spanish to English translationShow romanization
Toxicological tests performed Bruce Beresford-Redman
By Mario Vazquez Vazquez
2:44 p.m.

CANCUN .-- The U.S. producer Bruce Beresford-Redman, suspected of having murdered his wife, Monica Burgos, in a hotel in Cancun, just come to the Attorney of Justice of the Northern Zone of Quintana Roo in Cancun.

While agents reach the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to assist in its statement, the producer of the series "Survivor", who wears a white shirt, is subjected to a series of drug tests.

Beresford-Redman is with the authorities on suspicion of murdering his wife Monica Burgos, Brazilian-American, 42, whose body was found today in a septic tank of the Moon Palace hotel in this city.; Reply to this comment


by kukulkan66 April 8, 2010 2:02 PM EDT: Spanish to English translationShow romanization
It appears the body of the wife of a U.S. producer
By MARIO VAZQUEZ VAZQUEZ
11:54 a.m.

Cancun authorities have just been informed that the septic tank of the Moon Palace Hotel's body appeared Monica Beresford-Redman, wife of the producer of the series "Survivor," Bruce Beresford-Redman, missing since last Monday.

Officials said Bruce Beresford-Redman is as presented.

According to versions of the woman's family, the couple made the trip to Cancun for reconciliation after a marital crisis.

Acacio Veronica Trujillo, director of the Preliminary Investigations of Justice Attorney in the Northern Zone, said this morning that the U.S. producer was arrested because he has some scratches on his face.

Families of Monica, from Brazil, lost contact with her since Monday.

The couple had traveled to Cancun with her two children. Monica's birthday today.

The body appeared to have signs of strangulation.; Reply to this comment