Bruce Beresford-Redman

Bruce Beresford-Redman (born April 20, 1971) was the co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Pimp My Ride and a former producer of Survivor. In 2015, he was convicted in Mexico of the murder of his wife, Mónica.

The son of David and Juanita Beresford-Redman, he grew up in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and attended Pascack Hills High School, with show co-creator Rick Hurvitz. He graduated from New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida.

Beresford-Redman was a reality TV producer and a producer of the ubiquitous television franchise Survivor, who was involved in producing Pimp My Ride, a popular car makeover show on MTV. His career has been eclipsed by an investigation into his wife's death early in 2010. Beresford-Redman fled back to the US shortly after the naked body of his wife was found near their hotel. Subsequently, he was charged in absentia by Mexican authorities, who successfully extradited him to stand trial on charges that he killed his wife at a Cancún resort following the couple's repeated attempts to reconcile in an otherwise "poisonous" marital relationship.

Beresford-Redman married a Brazilian national, Mónica Burgos, on April 8, 1999 in Rio de Janeiro; the couple had two children, who live with their paternal grandparents.

On April 8, 2010, Beresford-Redman's wife, Mónica, was found dead at the Moon Palace resort in Cancun, Mexico, where they were vacationing. Mónica had been strangled and her body dumped in a sewer near where the couple was staying. Later that day, he was detained and questioned by police as a person of interest in his wife's death. He was released by police during the early morning hours of April 8 on condition that he not leave Mexico while the investigation into his wife's death remained ongoing. Two young English tourists staying at the hotel claimed to have heard the couple arguing in their room on April 4, and Beresford-Redman was reportedly seen with scratches on his hands and the back of his neck. Mónica's cause of death was determined to be asphyxiation. Beresford-Redman illegally left Mexico, as his passport had been retained in order to prevent him from leaving the country. He simply crossed the border, using his driver's license as identification and took a train to Los Angeles.

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