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Fatal Episode: The Producer's Story

September 22, 2012 7:45 PM

A former reality show producer accused of killing his wife is on trial in Mexico, but is the case falling apart? "48 Hours" has his only jailhouse interview. Troy Roberts reports.

Is the case against Bruce Beresford-Redman falling apart?
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by kem27 February 21, 2013 4:22 PM EST
Well it's a year later what happened?
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by Ducelick February 21, 2013 2:30 AM EST
What happened to this young woman is truly a tragedy. Having said that I do not see where there exists enough evidence to convict the husband.

Granted, when I heard about this case I thought he did it, but watching this show has created serious doubts.

The sisters say there is no way she would have gone shopping without her children. I find that extremely hard to believe. It was not as if she was leaving them alone...she was leaving them with their Father. This was a vacation, why would she not take some time to herself?

This couple were having problems, he was caught cheating. I know if I were in that position I might very well have gone off on my own, thinking okay jerk, you take care of the children...I'm going to go have some fun...you worry about where I am for a change.

I find it impossible that he could have murdered her in the room according to the supposed story the police put forward. There would be no way for the children not to have seen and heard the murder. A five year old would have made comments about Daddy hurting Mommy or Mommy was crying or something to that effect.

Where were her credit cards and I.D.? Where were her cloths? There is no evidence of him leaving the area to dispose of them.

Finally, the young MD woman's story puts the hotel staff into question.

Was this guy a two timing cad? Absolutely. Is he a murderer? I see no real proof of it.

The prosecuter says he wants to show this resort is safe. Seems to me he wants to pin this on a tourist so they can make people believe it is safer than it truly is.
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by curiosity1961 January 21, 2013 3:37 AM EST
How come the investigators didnt look into the other tourist who was allmost raped by an employee at the hotel? They could have delved a bit deeper into that but all they went by was that the hotel people were trying to keep a good tourist image of the place so they wouldnt help the police. Typically trying to put the blame onto someone foreighn to their country. The shopping mall that his wife went to didnt look too far from the hotel either and looked safe. When Im on vacation I sometimes dont take my phone because you can get unexpected thousand dollar bills for a few simple calls. I think an employee killed her, who would also know where the sewers were etc.
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by JBleep January 12, 2013 1:14 PM EST
t enough evidence. Doesn't appear that he could have done it. I'm sure he didn't kill her in front of his kids. Someone said he must have killed her in the bath room and hid the body. Where? In the medicine cabinet? Please. I think that someone else killed her. Maybe a Mexican. Maybe a hired killer. But because his children would be traumatized beyond believe I, but they aren't, I am sure that he didn't do this in that hotel room. There are two sad things that are against him here. It's in Mexico. In Mexico they don't pay attention to evidence. They will keep there as long as they wish. The woman's family are Brazilians. If they get his kids he will never get those children back if he gets out. They would probably return to Brazil with them and he would have to fight to get them. Long and hard. If he didn't do it I say "poor guy". If he did do it I say "you deserve it". But all in all I feel he didn't physically do it. The evidence against that scenario is too weak.
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by JBleep January 12, 2013 1:04 PM EST
t enough evidence. Doesn't appear that he could have done it. I'm sure he didn't kill her in front of his kids. Someone said he must have killed her in the bath room and hid the body. Where? In the medicine cabinet? Please. I think that someone else killed her. Maybe a Mexican. Maybe a hired killer. But because his children would be traumatized beyond believe I, but they aren't, I am sure that he didn't do this in that hotel room. There are two sad things that are against him here. It's in Mexico. In Mexico they don't pay attention to evidence. They will keep there as long as they wish. The woman's family are Brazilians. If they get his kids he will never get those children back if he gets out. They would probably return to Brazil with them and he would have to fight to get them. Long and hard. If he didn't do it I say "poor guy". If he did do it I say "you deserve it". But all in all I feel he didn't physically do it. The evidence against that scenario is too weak.
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by sarahblack1111 January 8, 2013 6:52 PM EST
I'm not buying the innocent act. If he didn't do it himself, he probably paid to have it done. Look at the way he treated his wife...complete disregard. He cheats on her and gets caught and instead of letting her move on with her life...drags her to Mexico for one last chance to save the marriage because he loves her so much...yet keeps in contact with the mistress, sends his wife off to the city alone with no way to contact her and doesn't report her missing until the next day? Yeah right...nothing fishy about that.
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by pogomcl December 31, 2012 11:19 PM EST
no evidence-- do not believe he is guilty. is 3d party. police incompetence.
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by triscuitboxempty December 28, 2012 4:34 PM EST
So, the sisters can testify to the fact that he was a terrible husband. Fine. They can't testify to a history of domestic violence. Their view on this whole affair is biased by their obvious hatred for this man, a fact clearly bolstered by their new (and transparent) theory that he now not only killed his wife, but did so in front of his children.

I'm now 30 minutes into this episode, and all I've seen as far as evidence goes, is the scratches on his body and the statements of some random people who said they heard screams and cries for help (way to find and interview the actual witnesses CBS), and the fact that he didn't allow the room service staff into his room the day she went missing.

Were I on this man's jury, I wouldn't vote to convict...it's not enough. You can make a murder conviction on a circumstantial case, but I would need more before I sent someone to prison.
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by deepbluegmail December 2, 2012 5:19 AM EST
Well, I give you some crasy guess in according with my viewpoint.
First of all, compared the other episodes, we didn't see any sadness feels of him, also he didn't eager to seek real killer. He would spend his money and time in order to help to find the real killer, but he didn't above all he left the mexico after this trajic event. Try to imagine that your wife killed under suspicious situation, you don't see any wilness to solve this crime, that's so weird. From all of these events, I got that this men don't interested in to finding the killer that's so suspicious. Ojn the other hand, he would hired a hunter of price and offer thousands of dollars to finding the real killer. He is enough wealthy, that's the another logical option for Bruce. He would offer any price for Mexican authorities to solve this crime also. Unfortunately we didn't see any of them in this episode.
The second crasy idea is he would hired a killer for killing his wife. That's also a possibility. Therefore he would get away with it without accusation if he was really wanted to rid of his wife.

Above all, this case is very tough due to inaduquate evidence also this crime happened in Mexico that's another obstacle.For now, it is really difficult to say whether he is innocent or not. But as we see this episode, all of the way culminates in Bruce of course. I think he really commited this crime, unfortunately.
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by a-critical-mind November 16, 2012 7:49 PM EST
He's as guilty as all get out!
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