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NANCY GRACE

Arrest Said Imminent in murder of "Survivor" Producer`s Wife

Aired April 12, 2010 - 20:00:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight. A beautiful young mother of two heads to a five-star Cancun resort with "Survivor" reality show hit maker, her husband, and two children, 3 and 5. Mommy reportedly leaves the tots behind to go shopping. Mommy never seen alive again. Fast-forward, Thursday, Mommy`s dead body found in bra and underwear, bruised, battered, thrown down a resort sewer. Now we learn the last night Mommy actually seen Sunday night, computer records revealing the family hotel room door opening, closing 11 times during that night. And now we discover Daddy has a mistress, a younger woman.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Investigators believe the 42-year-old victim was strangled.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Breaking news. Reports say an arrest is imminent in the murder of Monica Beresford-Redman.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They say her body and neck had scratches and she may have suffered blunt force trauma.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She`s the wife of "Survivor" producer and co- creator of "Pimp My Ride" Bruce Beresford-Redman.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The husband`s the prime suspect in his wife`s murder, according to police.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Authorities say her body was discovered 80 yards from the couple`s hotel room.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Media now reporting blood was found in the couple`s luxury resort hotel room, outside in the hall.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We know that she apparently found about an alleged affair that had happened between him and a work colleague of his.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s basically saying that she disappeared on Monday to go shopping, and yet supposedly, they`re heard arguing again on Monday night in their hotel room.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If there was an argument there, that could glean a lot of evidence from that room.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Autopsy results expected at any moment. Who killed the beautiful mother of two in paradise?

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GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Breaking news tonight. A beautiful young mom of two heads to a five-star resort there in Cancun with her "Survivor" reality show hit maker husband and their two children, 3 and 5. Fast-forward, Thursday, Mommy`s dead body found in nothing but bra and underwear, bruised, battered, thrown down a resort sewer. And now, tonight we learn Daddy has a mistress, a younger woman.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A shocking story. A Hollywood couple, loved apparently, adored, particularly the victim.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s a former "Survivor" producer. Now he`s the chief suspect in his wife`s murder. Bruce Beresford-Redman may be arrested at any moment, according to media reports.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He says he last saw her when she went shopping on Monday. He reports her missing on Tuesday. On Thursday, her body`s found about 70, 80 yards from the resort in a sewer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Local newspaper reporting blood was found inside and outside the couple`s luxury hotel room.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He said, Oh, well, she went shopping on Monday. They were seen at the hotel arguing, having dinner on Monday. What really happened?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police reportedly saying they found inconsistencies in the husband`s story.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If it`s also true, as being reported, that an investigator has said that he last saw her on Monday morning, but in fact, others heard them arguing Monday night, that would be very inconsistent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are security cameras in different parts of the resort. So hopefully, a lot of this activity that will help put together the timeline was captured on the video surveillance camera.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Official autopsy results expected soon. Beresford-Redman remains held in the resort area, unable to leave until he`s cleared or arrested.

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GRACE: Straight out to Jon Baird, KNX Newsradio, joining us there from the couple`s home, Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Thank you, Jon. What can you tell me?

JON BAIRD, KNX NEWSRADIO: Well, we can tell you what we`ve been hearing all day long, that an arrest in this case was imminent and that the husband was going to be arrested. What we`ve been hearing the last couple of hours now is that they are still waiting for forensic and toxicology reports to come back before they make an arrest. But it could happen at any time.

GRACE: OK. I`ve been hearing it all day, Jon. So what does "imminent" mean to the federales down in Mexico?

BAIRD: That`s a good question because toxicology reports -- here in the United States, that could take six weeks or more. What we`re hearing is maybe anywhere from a week to three weeks. So we know he`s not allowed to leave the country. We know he`s in the custody of U.S. authorities...

GRACE: Whoa!

BAIRD: ... who have promised...

GRACE: Whoa! Whoa!

BAIRD: ... he won`t leave the country...

GRACE: Whoa! Jon, you`re saying he`s not allowed to leave the country of Mexico. Is he in a jail cell?

BAIRD: He is not. He`s in the custody of U.S. consulate officials, a three-hour drive away from Cancun.

GRACE: Where exactly is he being held, Jon Baird?

BAIRD: I don`t know -- my understanding was with the consulate officials, maybe at the consulate itself, but three hours away from Cancun. And they`ve said that they will not let him leave the country. And my understanding, too, was his passport was taken away, too.

GRACE: Jon Baird -- Jon Baird joining us from KNX Newsradio -- you want to tell me that not having a passport means anything in Mexico? How do you think those people go back and forth across the border all the time? You think they`ve got passports?

BAIRD: No. I`m sure many people get across the border. We know that for a fact. But he is in the custody of U.S. officials, and they`re saying they`re not going to let him go, either. So I would have to believe that he`s not going anywhere. He`s going to be stuck there until the Mexican authorities decide whether to charge him.

GRACE: OK. Telling me he`s in the custody of U.S. officials, I feel a little bit better. Out to Alexis Tereszcuk, reporter with Radaronline.com, joining us also there at Rancho Palos Verdes. That`s the couple`s home. Alexis, what can you tell me -- take me back to the night that she goes missing. I want to go specifically to that Sunday night. What happened? I know she`s not reported missing until Tuesday, but what happened on Sunday?

ALEXIS TERESZCUK, RADARONLINE.COM: Well, what her husband, Bruce, has said is that she left the resort and went shopping and went to a spa. And he didn`t report her missing until news (SIC) day. The problem is, is that -- and he said she was gone -- that many resort people heard them fighting. The resort actually called the room because of the fighting reports. But instead of going there to check on them, they just asked him, who answered the phone, how it was, and he said everything was fine...

GRACE: OK, wait, wait...

TERESZCUK: ... so they let it go.

GRACE: ... wait, wait! Hold on! Hold on, Alexis. To you, Jean Casarez, legal correspondent, In Session. Jean, you`re telling me that people there in a hotel room my reports say heard her screaming and heard raised voices. So they call the hotel room. This is a five-star resort. He answers the phone, says everything`s fine, and they don`t check it out?

JEAN CASAREZ, IN SESSION: That`s right. In addition to that, the facts (ph) are saying that they heard, like, furniture being thrown in that room. And remember, when her body was found, there was an immense amount of injury on her body, not only marks on her neck, but there was bruising on her head, specifically her temple area.

GRACE: And back to you, Alexis Tereszcuk. What can you tell me -- I don`t want to name her -- about the alleged other woman?

TERESZCUK: Well, this woman actually worked with Bruce. She was a casting agent on one of his shows. She`s younger than him. And apparently, the affair had been going on for about -- started about a year ago. It went -- carried on for about six months. Monica has known about it for about four months, and she`s been really angry about this. She`s been mad at Bruce. She`s been furious. She`s enraged by this. But this is a woman that he had worked with and he was carrying on with. She was going down to Mexico at Bruce`s urgings to try to work on her marriage...

GRACE: OK, wait a minute.

TERESZCUK: ... because she really...

GRACE: Wait a minute!

TERESZCUK: ... did want to work it out.

GRACE: Jon Baird, KNX, can you confirm that, that Alexis Tereszcuk just said, that he was the one urging her -- there he is, TV reality show "Survivor" hit maker, husband Bruce Beresford-Redman, 38 years old -- he wanted her to go on a Mexican vacation to Cancun? This is just a few months after she finds out about an affair with a younger woman and he takes out a life insurance policy on her.

BAIRD: Well, I don`t know about the life insurance policy. I`ve been told the same thing that you just heard from Alexis, basically, that he wanted her to go on this trip because he wanted to put the marriage back together and that she was in agreement to give that a shot, and that`s why they were down in Cancun.

GRACE: OK. So you think he took her down there to, quote, "give it a shot." You`re seeing video from CBS`s "Survivor." To Jean Casarez. What can you tell me about the insurance policy?

CASAREZ: Well, the insurance policy was taken out just months ago, $5 million, and the beneficiaries were her children. So at first glance, you say, Well, the children were the beneficiaries. But the person that raises the children could also, in essence, benefit from that life insurance policy.

GRACE: Well, the children are what, 3 and 6?

CASAREZ: 5.

GRACE: 3 and 5, Jean Casarez. So who would be controlling the money?

CASAREZ: Exactly.

GRACE: Certainly not the 3-year-old.

CASAREZ: The guardian. You`re right. The guardian.

GRACE: OK, we are taking your calls. Out to Diane in Florida. Hi, Diane.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy.

GRACE: Hi, dear. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Could it be she wanted a divorce and she asked for child support for the kids?

GRACE: Good question. What do we know about that, Natisha Lance? Natisha is joining us from Cancun, Mexico, via Skype. She`s there at the resort. What do you know, Natisha? What more can you tell us?

NATISHA LANCE, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, Nancy, there haven`t been any reports that she was asking for a divorce. But according to family members, she had taken off the week prior, going to Hawaii with her children, and then at the urgings of her husband, came to Mexico to try to reconcile. According to her sister, she was wanting to have this reconciliation with her husband. She wanted to forgive him and move past this alleged affair.

GRACE: Out to the lines. Francine, New Jersey. Hi, Francine.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. We love you here in Jersey. We hope everybody`s OK. And we love your new haircut!

GRACE: Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, you`re welcome, hon. What I want to say is, I cannot understand five-star hotel, they don`t come and check up. They hear noise. You know, you can go anyplace, you hear noise, your neighbor calls the police, they`re going to come and check you. I mean, this is a hotel. You`re in another country. They hear banging the furniture and so on. And they don`t go there with their own (INAUDIBLE)

GRACE: Francine, I don`t understand it. Let`s go to Andrew J. Scott, former chief of police, Boca Raton. He`s VP of Scott Roberts Associates. He`s joining us out in Miami. You know, in your neck of the woods, Andrew, there are plenty of five-star resorts. You want to tell me people hear a woman screaming in her hotel room, security calls, the man answers and says, We`re fine, click, and they don`t go check it out?

ANDREW J. SCOTT, FMR. CHIEF OF POLICE, BOCA RATON: That`s very strange. In this country, they would be insistent upon actually entering into the apartment, Nancy, or the room just to confirm everybody was OK, particularly hearing the type of interaction that was going on. And the failure to do that and just a phone call doesn`t make sense. It wouldn`t have happened here in the United States with law enforcement.

GRACE: You know, Andrew Scott, they could have saved her life if they had followed up because the hotel computer records show, Andrew Scott, that that hotel room door to their bedroom opened and shut, opened and shut, opened and shut 11 times during the night, all right?

SCOTT: Very unusual.

GRACE: She`s never seen alive again. I don`t care if hubby reports her missing Tuesday. This is between Sunday and Monday, 11 times in the middle of the night. Now, that is not right.

I`m hearing in my ear we`re being joined right now from LA by Marcelo Gomez. This is a friend of the victim, Monica Beresford-Redman. Marcelo, thank you for being with us.

MARCELO GOMEZ, FRIEND OF VICTIM: Thank you.

GRACE: What can you tell me about Monica?

GOMEZ: Monica -- that`s what I`ve been saying. Monica is a loving person. Everybody likes Monica in the community. She`s a major icon for our community. And this is devastating, devastating. There`s a lot of people crying. The family is also devastated. And people want to hear answers.

GRACE: I want answers, too, Marcelo. And I want to go to Jon Baird. Big question. Where are the little children?

BAIRD: My understanding is they`re back here in California, and they may be in the custody of his parents, even though he`s a suspect in the case.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re all waiting to find out what really happened.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Monica, who has been murdered, is the wife of the "Survivor" producer.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was having an affair with someone at work that his wife found out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There might have been arguments here or there, but lots of people have arguments.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s a pillar of the community. She`s somebody who people follow. And now this happens.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my gosh. I can`t believe this!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Trouble in paradise.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She was loved.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This couple went down to Cancun to put together their marriage.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The mother`s body found dumped...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They`re on vacation down there with their two kids.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We understand strangulation.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He reports her missing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We understand there was a big blow to her head.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is now a suspect.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ... talk of an affair.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody`s, you know, in shock.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can`t believe this!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At a loss for words.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Devastated.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re going to miss her dearly.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The facts of the case are very interesting.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There could be any amount of scenarios.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People heard yelling.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Supposedly, they had a violent fight on Sunday night.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were seen at the hotel arguing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The couple has had a difficult time with their relationship.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marital discord, it does not necessarily equate to murder.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The investigation is not complete.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People fight. It doesn`t equate to murder.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What really happened? We don`t know.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We don`t know.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We don`t know yet.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They had him in custody. If they let him go...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He`s going to have a team of lawyers from the United States coming in to assist him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think everybody around hope that this is not true, it`s a misunderstanding, it`s just a coincidence.

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GRACE: A misunderstanding? A coincidence? She`s dead, her husband the last one apparently to have seen her alive. Back to Jon Baird, joining us at the couple`s home, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Jon joining us from KNX Newsradio. Jon, who was the last person to actually see her alive?

BAIRD: My understanding is it was Bruce, and there are inconsistencies in what he`s told authorities. For one thing, he said she left to go shopping on Monday. We`ve been talking about that. And then they were supposedly fighting in the room Monday night. Another thing is that she went shopping, but the hotel -- this is a five-star resort -- has no record of her leaving the property. And apparently, the security people there check the cars that come and go. So they don`t even have a record of her actually leaving, and yet he says she went to go shopping.

GRACE: Well, how would they know what car she was in?

BAIRD: Well, I think that`s a very good question. And when I heard that today, first thought I had, having been in Cancun one time, was that she could have taken a shuttle somewhere. She could have taken a taxi somewhere. Who knows if they check every single car. But they`re saying they don`t have any proof that she actually left the property.

GRACE: OK. I`m hearing in my ear, Jon -- and I agree with you. I`ve been there one time, and if you`re in one of those fancy resorts down at that end of the island where they all are, you basically have to take a cab to get anywhere. But Ellie`s telling me right now that there`s no record of them calling for a cab. So unless she left by foot or caught a ride with somebody else, she never left that resort, Jon Baird.

BAIRD: Exactly. And that`s a big inconsistency that they`re checking out and why he`s stuck in Mexico while they finish this investigation.

GRACE: Alexis Tereszcuk, Radaronline.com, what can you tell me about the condition of the body? That`s going to tell me a lot about when she was killed.

TERESZCUK: It was in horrible condition. She had multiple wounds, traumatic hits -- I`m sorry, I`m not explaining it perfectly well -- but that she had blunt trauma force to her head. She was only found in her bra and panties. She had multiple bruises all over her body. She was truly beaten up.

GRACE: Another thing, to Dr. Michael Arnall, board-certified forensic pathologist joining us out of Denver. Doctor Arnall, thank you for being with us. What does the swelling of the body mean to you in the terms of time of death?

DR. MICHAEL ARNALL, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: Yes. The body is bloated. That means it`s decomposing. Now, the local medical examiner`s going to have a good idea, but that probably means it`s been decomposing for certainly over a day, perhaps over a couple of days.

GRACE: To Dr. Caryn Stark, psychologist joining us in our New York studios. Caryn, when do you go from, I`m having an affair, I`m not happy in my marriage, to, I will beat my wife to death and throw down a sewer in her underwear? Where does that -- where do you cross that line from just a -- how does a fight escalate into murdering the mother of your two children? If you don`t care about her, what about the children?

CARYN STARK, PSYCHOLOGIST: Well, this is somebody who`s aggressive, Nancy. So if we take a look at how he must be, he`s not an ordinary person. He starts to have a fight. He`s impulsive. He can`t stop himself. And that probably -- if he is guilty, that`s what happened, is that he just went too far.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If there`s one place you`re going to go to commit a crime, certainly Mexico might be that place.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mommy never seen again.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A massive rift in his marriage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Big surprise! An affair.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think he`d better get an attorney as quickly as possible.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go missing on Monday morning. She went for a shopping on Cancun.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s very sad. Very, very sad.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She never come back.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don`t want to say that she passed away!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of a sudden, she were here yesterday, not here any longer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s creepy. That`s kind of concerning.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her marriage, it seemed very happy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everything on the -- looked great. You know, they love each other.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`ve never seen anything hostile relationship between them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He`s very a quiet...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s always got along.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He`s very nice guy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They seemed to be a lovely couple.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You really don`t want to believe that!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re just waiting to see what happens next.

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GRACE: We are taking your calls live. An American woman, mother of two, a gorgeous lady, Monica Beresford-Redman found dead at a five-star resort. The last person to see her alive, her husband. I would also like to find out when he sent those two children back home to the U.S. Is it before Mommy went missing or after?

We`re taking your calls. To Joe in Arizona. Hi, Joe.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, Nancy.

GRACE: Hi, dear. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, if the Mexican authorities have insufficient evidence to hold him any longer and he`s able to return to the United States, can family members in the United States -- although the crime was committed in Mexico, can they pursue criminal charges here in the United States?

GRACE: They would not have jurisdiction. Let`s unleash the lawyers. Joining us tonight, felony prosecutor Eleanor Odom, joining us in our Manhattan studios. Also with us in Manhattan, Mickey Sherman, criminal defense attorney and author of "How Can You Defend Those People?" and Alex Sanchez, famed attorney, also out of the New York jurisdiction.

What about it? To you, Mickey Sherman? Is there anything the family can do here in the U.S. as far as prosecuting?

MICKEY SHERMAN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: They can only hire the best possible lawyers they can and perhaps send their own people down there, private investigators and whatnot. But as you said, this is a Mexican jurisdiction case, and no matter how much talent you want to send down from the United States, it`s going to be handled by the Mexican authorities.

GRACE: Alex Sanchez, look, if you want to commit a murder, Mexico`s the place to go.

ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes, well, you know, I got news for you, Nancy, and for the other people watching the show...

GRACE: Don`t invite me to go to Mexico with you, Alex Sanchez!

SANCHEZ: This case -- this is going to be a little bit...

GRACE: Not going!

SANCHEZ: ... more difficult than you think to prosecute. First of all, I`d like to know how on earth he could have left that hotel with that body, carried it 150 feet and dropped it down a sewer...

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Tonight, Bruce Beresford-Redman is the prime suspect after his wife was found dead in a sewer at a luxury resort.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This was sort of a last chance getaway for the couple.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Mexican authorities say Monica`s body was found in a sewer at the Moon Palace Resort. She had scratches on her neck, signs she was strangled, and an injury to her head.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is not just a vacation gone wrong.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Reports say the couple went to the hot vacation spot for a romantic getaway to try and help a strained marriage.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This was a time for them to repair and to reconcile using the words from a very long-time friend of Monica`s.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Trouble in paradise. Her husband also had scratched on his face and arms. He told police earlier this week his wife had gone shopping and never returned.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There`s marital discord. It does not necessarily equate to murder.

MIKE BROOKS, H;N LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST, FMR. DC POLICE DETECTIVE; FBI TERRORISM TASK FORCE: The timeline is key, because he said he last saw his wife on Monday when she went shopping, but apparently, they were seen together there at the hotel Monday evening in an argument.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She was very mad with him, and it really seems like that he`s murdered her.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People fight. It doesn`t equate to murder.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: So far the former "Survivor" TV show producer has not been charged.

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: The hit-maker reality show "Survivor" producer now under suspicion. He`s being held by U.S. officials in Mexico. His wife found dead. Their two children, ages 3 and 5, back in the states. This at a five-star resort, Cancun.

We are taking your calls. But back to you, Eleanor Odom, felony prosecutor, specialty crimes on women and children. Why do I always hear the lame, sad, tired argument -- argument doesn`t mean murder? Infidelity doesn`t mean murder.

Of course it doesn`t. What moron would use that as a defense? But if you look at domestic homicide, you look back and you see arguments. You see sometimes drug and alcohol abuse. You see infidelity.

So you should turn that argument around on its ear and look at it the other way.

ELEANOR ODOM, PROSECUTOR: Well, you`re exactly right, Nancy. And to the defense attorneys I say the incredible story is the one that Bruce -- producer Bruce is telling.

Look at not only the arguments. The domestic violence. You see that cycle of abuse that night as well as the marks found on her body. And this story and that he didn`t even report his own wife missing for over a day. Come on.

GRACE: And this is the thing, Eleanor. Think about it. He says she leaves the resort to go shopping or to a salon, but yet she ends up back dead at that very resort, which suggests to me she never left.

And back to you, Natisha Lance. What can you tell me -- you`re joining us -- we lost our connection to Natisha there at the resort.

Jon Baird, what can you tell me about the wristbands that residents at the resort have to wear? Apparently, they mark them. It`s an all- inclusive resort. Do you know anything about that?

JON BAIRD, REPORTER, KNX NEWSRADIO, COVERING STORY: Nancy, I don`t know about that -- not in their case. I know that I`ve stayed at some of the resorts in that area of the world and basically you did wear a wristband, you had to wear it all the time, that identified you, got you in places, out of places. I don`t know whether or not --

GRACE: Hold on. We`re trying to get our connection back to Natisha, and we`ll go to her on that, Jon Baird.

Alexis Tereszcuk, what can you tell me about the victim`s sister and her attorney approaching the district attorney in California?

ALEXIS TERESZCUK, RADARONLINE.COM: Nancy, the sister Carla met with Steve Cooley, who is the Los Angeles district attorney, for three hours today. And she wants justice for her sister.

If it`s not going to happen in Mexico, she wants it to happen here in California. She was talking with him to see if this was something that she could maybe work out. This is -- you know, she`s not trying to close any doors. She wants to go through every avenue that she can to get justice for her sister.

GRACE: So the sister is pursuing the California -- the U.S. end. There`s not really a lot they can do about that.

Everybody, we are taking your calls live. Out to Chris in Tennessee. Hi, Chris.

CHRIS, CALLER FROM TENNESSEE: Hi, Nancy. I love your show.

GRACE: Thank you. And thank you for calling in. What`s your question, dear?

CHRIS: Yes. What led the police to decide to search the sewers?

GRACE: Excellent question. What do we know about that, Jon Baird?

BAIRD: About the police searching the resort?

GRACE: Yes, specifically --

BAIRD: Is that what you`re asking?

GRACE: Specifically the sewers.

BAIRD: I know that they spent a lot of time down there looking at that very, very closely. They`re trying to get clues. One of the things they`re trying to figure out is where the injury to her right temple came from, whether or not it was caused by her being thrown in there or falling in there.

So they`ve obviously looked at that very hard. But they still haven`t released any of the autopsy reports, the forensic reports, and we understand it`s going to be a while in the toxicology.

GRACE: Jean Casarez?

JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": What we`re learning, Nancy, is the sewers in Mexico are different how you and I may envision a sewer. There was like a manhole that had a lid on it, and it was opened up. They don`t know if it was part of the official search or if someone --

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GRACE: There it is. That`s what we`re looking at. Go ahead.

CASAREZ: That`s it.

GRACE: Go ahead.

CASAREZ: And that is where they found the body. When they took this big lid off, this type of manhole, that a sewer was underneath, the body was floating on the top of the water.

GRACE: So somebody had to lift the cement or iron top off. What we would really call a septic tank. But they`re calling it a sewer. Put her down it. And then did they put the lid back on, Jean Casarez?

CASAREZ: It`s believed so because the lid was taken off --

GRACE: Well, I can tell you right there, a man did that. And number two, it was not random. Because look, I`ve prosecuted so many murder cases. A random killer, they`ll just leave you where they kill you. But people that know you will go to great extremes to remove or hide the body.

Now she had on her bra and her underwear, which means to me she was very likely taken out of her hotel room, or else she was in a state of undress out on the grounds of the resort. That doesn`t make any sense. Or somewhere else.

She was taken like that. Were her clothes found anywhere, Jean Casarez?

CASAREZ: No, we don`t know about her clothes. But Nancy, surveillance cameras. This is a resort, a world-renowned resort. Did they have surveillance cameras? If so were they running? If so they should have caught something.

GRACE: Do we know -- OK. We`ve got Natisha Lance back, our producer joining us from Cancun there at the resort.

Natisha, what can you tell me about everyone that goes there wearing wristbands? And is that recorded when they go in or out of the resort?

NATISHA LANCE, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Right, Nancy. Every person at the resort receives a wristband like the one that I`m wearing right here. And on the wristband there is a set of numbers.

On that set of numbers if you are leaving the resort you have to give that set of numbers to the security at the gate, and if you are coming back into the resort you have to give those numbers to the security coming back.

If you are checking into the resort, they have a list of names of people who should be coming into the resort. So they would have a very clear indication of who would be coming and going from the resort.

And also, Nancy, we found out from the attorney general today, that not only was she asphyxiated but she was asphyxiated with a pillow or a bag.

GRACE: I wonder how they know that. A pillow or a bag. They must have gotten some type of particles off of her mouth or lips. When you`re saying asphyxiated, Natisha, you`re not saying strangled. You`re saying smothered asphyxiated?

LANCE: Right. And this is the term that they were using today. They`re using asphyxia and they said with a pillow or a bag. And they also confirmed for us that there was an argument that night. So it`s not just reports of what witnesses are saying.

The attorney general is confirming that there was a matrimonial argument on the night of April 5th.

GRACE: OK. I want to go back to Dr. Michael Arnall, board-certified forensic pathologist. Arnall is joining us out of Denver.

OK, Dr. Arnall, asphyxiation can be smothering, it can be ligature, it can be manual strangulation. But from what I`m getting, this was a smothering with either a bag or a pillow.

Now how do you believe they would have determined that? Maybe bruising around the eyes or particles in the mouth or nose?

DR. MICHAEL ARNALL, BOARD CERTIFIED FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: That`s right. That`s exactly right. The other thing they can do is they can look at the inside of her lips. If they apply enough pressure on a pillow to cause that asphyxiation, she may well have bruised to the inside of her lips against her teeth when they pressed so hard.

GRACE: You know, I hadn`t thought of that, Dr. Arnall. Let me ask you about something else, Dr. Arnall. The blow to the temple. She would have to hit at -- like at a 90 degree angle, perpendicular to her head, to get that accidentally.

That is a blow to the head. She did not get that from falling. I mean, how could you fall directly on the temple?

ARNALL: They`re going to look at the distribution of bruises on the surface of the brain and compare those to locations of the bruise on the scalp. And they can use a forensic principle to determine whether she fell and got that bruise or was struck with an object to get that bruise.

If it`s true she was in a -- floating in the sewer, one wonders how one can get a bruise by falling into a pool of water or some type of fluid.

GRACE: You know, Dr. Arnall, you`re saying all the things that you`d do. All right? You`re board certified in the U.S. We`re talking about Mexican authorities.

Everybody, we are taking your calls live. A beautiful American woman, Monica Beresford-Redman, mother of two little children, dead.

As we go to break, tonight, I want to tell you about a woman I was approached this past Sunday and asked to ask you for your thoughts and prayers for Mary Claire Blackshaw. Mary Claire is a young mother, and she`s in the fight of a lifetime, battling bone cancer.

Mary Claire, we are praying. Please stay strong.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford- Redman has been released from police questioning after his wife, 42-year- old Monica, was found dead in a sewer.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: He`d been to Hawaii with the kids for a getaway vacation. He called her and convinced her to join him with the kids in Cancun.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Monica`s sister claims in published reports the husband got caught having an affair and planned the getaway to try and make things right with his wife.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I never saw any signs of an affair. I never -- they looked like a happy, normal couple.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Witnesses reportedly claimed they heard fighting throughout the couple`s stay.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I said oh, my gosh, I can`t believe this.

BROOKS: I mean the hotel room is going to be crucial in this. Some people there heard possibly arguing coming from there.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No one knows what goes on behind closed doors in a marriage.

BROOKS: And scratches allegedly on his face, scratches on her body.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Police suspect she was strangled, had scratches on her neck, and a blow to her right temple.

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GRACE: We are taking your calls live. I want to go back out to friend of Monica -- the victim in this case -- Marcelo Gomez, joining us out of L.A.

Marcelo, how was she taking the epiphany that her husband had been having an affair?

MARCELO GOMEZ, FRIEND OF MURDERED WIFE, MONICA BERESFORD-REDMAN: How would a woman react? You know, she was of course upset. She suffered a lot. She`s been suffering a lot about it.

GRACE: Did she want a divorce?

GOMEZ: No, she didn`t want it. She wanted to reconcile. She was deeply in love with this -- with this man, and she tried everything she could to make this relationship work out.

GRACE: Why do you say that? She tried everything she could.

GOMEZ: Because she flew to Cancun and -- I mean, it didn`t happen this -- right now. She knows for a while, and she`s been putting up with this. And only a woman that loves her husband would do that. She`s being putting up a lot with.

GRACE: What else has she been putting up with?

GOMEZ: Well, there`s an investigation going on. I don`t want to interfere with the investigation with too much information. But she knows for a while. A lot more than four months that the guy has an affair.

And she`s been suffering a lot. Like any other woman, you know, that finds out the man is cheating.

GRACE: With us tonight, a friend of Monica`s, Marcelo Gomez.

Back to the calls. Ruth in Florida, hi, Ruth.

RUTH, CALLER FROM FLORIDA: Hi, Nancy. I appreciate you being there for us. You`re a wonderful person. My question is were the children actually there in Cancun --

GRACE: Ruth, we were just sitting here talking about that in commercial break. I`m sitting here with Dr. Caryn Stark, Jean Casarez, and Ellie, our producer, and I`m trying to determine when they were actually sent home.

Jean Casarez, could they have even been in the room if the mom was killed in the room?

CASAREZ: You know, Nancy, I think Ruth is reading our minds because we were talking about that, and my question was how large was that room? The children are 5 and 3. They were there. It was a family vacation.

Did they see anything? Did investigators question them before they flew back to California? They are now with his parents.

GRACE: Let`s unleash the lawyers. Eleanor Odom, Mickey Sherman, defense attorney, Alex Sanchez, defense attorney.

Mickey Sherman, if he`s not under arrest, how can he be detained by U.S. authorities?

MICKEY SHERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, AUTHOR OF "HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THOSE PEOPLE?": Well, Dwayne Dog Chapman was detained but he took off but then he came back. I`m amazed that he`s not in custody. But you know, Nancy, this may just be a regular murder mystery just like the new Lis Wiehl book "Hand of Fate," by the way, which you --

GRACE: Go ahead and plug. Go ahead and hold it up. Mickey Sherman married up, people. He married Lis Wiehl over there on FOX, beautiful blond. And she wrote this best-selling book, too.

SHERMAN: And you called it in one word a thriller.

GRACE: I did.

SHERMAN: But aside from the plug, you know --

GRACE: You just happened to have it with you.

SHERMAN: Just happen to have it with me. And it`s been signed to you. Hey, but in all seriousness how come we haven`t heard about his injuries or whether or not there`s any --

GRACE: Well, I`m glad you brought it up. What about it, Jon Baird? Any injuries to the husband?

BAIRD: Should they release the husband? Is that what you`re asking?

GRACE: No. Any injuries. Injuries. Husband reportedly had scratches on neck and arms.

BAIRD: Right. Exactly. We understand he did have injuries, scratch marks to his neck and arms. That`s what we understand at this point.

I will tell you, Nancy, one other thing that we haven`t talked about tonight is we understand there may be a battle brewing over Monica`s body that apparently Mexican authorities have said that Bruce as the husband would be entitled to take possession of the body and another report said that he would have her cremated.

Meantime, Monica`s family is trying to get possession of the body because they want to bring it back to the United States and have it checked out further. So there could be something going on there as well.

GRACE: Alex Sanchez, can the Mexican authorities get away with that? Just cremate her when clearly she has been murdered?

ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You know I think it`s unlikely that they`re going to go along with that scenario. But you know, it seems that everybody on the show is missing something very crucial.

This is a major hotel. It`s got cameras all over the place. There`s revelers coming and going. How on earth could this guy have taken a body, walked 200 feet, opened up a heavy manhole cover, dropped it in without anybody seeing this?

It sounds absolutely preposterous, Nancy.

GRACE: Well, just as easily as a tourist, like you said, like these crazy tourists you`re talking about.

SANCHEZ: Without anybody seeing it? Those manhole covers --

GRACE: Well, somebody did it without anybody seeing it.

SANCHEZ: No, those manhole covers --

GRACE: She didn`t jump into the cesspool to go for a swim, Alex Sanchez.

SANCHEZ: No, but those manhole covers are not meant for one person to pick up.

GRACE: OK. OK. Wait. But wait. I want to congratulate on a happy note New York friend Jeff (INAUDIBLE), wife Valerie, welcoming tiny crime fighters, twin boys Gabriel and Alexander, born March 29. Gabriel, five pounds six ounces. Alexander four pounds five ounces.

Congratulations, and welcome home, baby Gabriel and baby Alexander.

And happy birthday to South Carolina friend, Kathy Evans. Loves classic movies, reading and her great love, her great niece, Abby.

Happy birthday, Kathy.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Apparently she found out he was having an affair.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: According to officials, she was strangled and had scratches on her face.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He has been associated with a lot of reality shows and of course he`s most famous for being a producer on "Survivor."

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Bruce also reportedly has scratches on his neck. And witnesses heard arguing. Officials still believe Beresford- Redman is a suspect in his wife`s death.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m just hoping for justice, you know?

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GRACE: Out to the lines. Sandra, Indiana, hi, Sandra.

SANDRA, CALLER FROM INDIANA: Hi, Nancy. Thank you for taking my call.

GRACE: Yes, ma`am. What`s your question, dear?

SANDRA: Maybe this is something Dr. Stark can (INAUDIBLE). What is going on in marriages these days that ending a marriage equates to murder instead of just divorce? Don`t they want to pay child support or alimony or -- what`s going on where we`re seeing this more and more, not only with affluent people but even people of modest means and they`re doing it in front of their children?

GRACE: Caryn?

CARYN STARK, PSYCHOLOGIST: Well, I -- I don`t know that it`s really going on more and more. I think we`re covering it more and more. But clearly, this is not your average kind of marriage where somebody just kills another person.

This takes a particular personality. You take a look at it. Here`s a man who is already cheating on her and it had been going on for a long time. They must have had fights before this and it`s very clear that she was in a dangerous position and probably shouldn`t have been there.

GRACE: Jean Casarez, what is the name and what can you tell me about this five-star resort?

CASAREZ: Well, the name is Hotel Moon Palace and I did a little research on it, and it is very inclusive like you said, Nancy. All your meals are provided, they have shows at night. So that tells me the people that work there would get to know the people that are staying there.

We want to remind everybody, nobody has been charged in this crime at all. She was murdered but no one has been charged.

GRACE: To Cheryl. Hi, Cheryl.

CHERYL, CALLER FROM CONNECTICUT: Hi.

GRACE: Hi, dear. What`s your question?

CHERYL: First thing is, I want to say, I love your twins, they`re so adorable.

GRACE: Thank you.

CHERYL: You`re welcome.

GRACE: Just -- I`ve been so blessed.

CHERYL: Yes, you have. My question is now, if he`s arrested over there, will they extradite him to the United States?

GRACE: Absolutely not, Cheryl. It`s got to be tried in Mexico. Agree or disagree, Eleanor?

ODOM: And hopefully the Mexican authorities will keep him there. And he shouldn`t be able to leave since he doesn`t have his passport.

GRACE: And Alex, he cannot be -- he will not be extradited because why?

SANCHEZ: Because he didn`t commit any crime in the United States. And if he committed a crime here and he`s in Mexico, then the United States can ask Mexico to extradite him to the United States.

GRACE: Everyone, let`s stop and remember Army Corporal Brandon Craig, just 25, Orville, Maryland, killed Iraq. Awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, three Army Commendation medals. Remembered as Mr. Personality Plus.

Always willing to lend a hand. Loved the outdoors, hunting, fishing, time with family. Leaves behind grieving parents Mary Jan and Danny, sister Amber, brother Ryan, widow Jodie. Also served the Army.

Brandon Craig, American hero.

Thanks to our guests but especially to you for being with us and a special good night from New York friend Richelle and Nicole. Now aren`t they beautiful?

Everyone, see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp Eastern. Until then, good night, friend.

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