A federal judge in Los Angeles has found probable cause to extradite former “Survivor†TV show producer Bruce Beresford-Redman to Mexico to face charges he killed his wife in their suite in Cancun last year.
The judge also decided Tuesday not to allow Beresford-Redman’s 6-year-old daughter to testify in his behalf in the extradition proceeding related to the asphyxiation death of his wife, Monica Beresford-Redman.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian made her decision after two hours of arguments but without hearing from the producer’s daughter.
At the last minute, his attorneys and the girl’s therapist decided she should not be subject to the trauma of the courtroom. The judge did allow into the record the girl’s statement to therapists.
The U.S. Secretary of State must now make a final decision on whether Beresford-Redman will be extradited.
He is accused of asphyxiating Monica Beresford-Redman in April 2010 then dumping her body into a wastewater treatment tank.
The family vacation to Mexico was a last-ditch effort to repair the Rancho Palos Verdes couple’s troubled 11-year marriage, according to U.S. prosecutors and Mexican police, who said Bruce Beresford-Redman’s wife had caught her husband cheating and left him briefly in the month before her death.
