Slain wife of TV producer suspected affairs, installed secret audio recorder in his car

New court documents released Monday show that a TV producer had a troubled relationship with his wife, whom he stands accused of killing last year at a Cancun resort.

According to the documents, Bruce Beresford-Redman had a longtime affair with a woman he worked with and at one point spent $5,000 on a daylong phone-sex chat.

His late wife, Monica, was suspicious of his activities. At one point, she traveled to Costa Rica to check up on him while he there on business. She also installed a secret auto recording device in his car.

The documents were contained in court papers by the U.S. attorney's office filed as part of Mexico's effort to have former "Survivor" producer Beresford-Redman face murder charges. The papers include hundreds of pages of medical records, witness testimony and crime scene photos.

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Monica Beresford-Redman's body was found April 8, 2010, in a septic tank at the luxury hotel where the couple was staying in Cancun. Family members have said that she and her husband had gone to Mexico in an effort to repair their troubled marriage. Mexican officials said she died of "asphyxia by suffocation."

Beresford-Redman has repeatedly denied that he had anything to do with his wife's death. He remains in Los Angeles.

The documents said she died of "asphyxia through suffocation."

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Comments

[john]

I guess she didn't trust him.

[Norm Silver]

This was a troubled relationship for a period of at least two years. He had a bad track record on fidelity. No one knows what actually happened except him and he isn't talking. I do hope this goes to trial in Mexico.

[don keyhote]

...IF THE THE TRIAL TAKES PLACE IN MEXICO, HE IS GUILTY AND MUST PROVE HIS INNOCENCE AND THAT MAYBE MORE TO HIS LIKING....JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN MEXICO IS RIPE WITH CORRUPTION AND MALFEASANCE AMONG OTHER THINGS, LIKE WHY SEEK JUSTICE FOR AN AMERICAN LIFE!...

[MBC Voice]

Is she not a potential felon with her surreptitious surveillance? She sounds psychiatrically deranged, not lovingly devoted. Look more into her personal pathology, rather than simply convict the husband for POSSIBLE infidelity. Her mental demons may have created more than what the press reports.

[k bonson]

Any marriage with a hyphen in the name you know is in trouble

[Captain Howdy]

I agree with the comment about how hyphenated names spell doom to a marriage. Besides being really silly and pointing to gross insecurity on the part of the woman who hyphenates her name to that of her husband, it is ridiculous on its face. For example, what happens if two hyphenated people get married? Will there children have four last names all connected by hyphens? And what about the next generation, will they have eight last names, then sixteen, then thirty-two? Really stupid!

[Steve]

Doesn't count on location.

[Valerie]

He should be drowned in a turd-filled septic tank on one of those network television game shows as punishment for murdering his own wife. He needn't worry though, this is California where he will get a "bad boy, don't do it again" and a free Mexican vacation for him and his mistress.

[u know]

I saw her sisters on TV. If she was anything like her sister, then I can't say I can totally blame this guy for what he did. The sisters just look and sound like evil disgusting women.