The former ?Survivor? producer charged with killing his wife is dropping his fight over extradition and will stand trial in Mexico, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The grieving sister of victim Monica Beresford-Redman called the news ?a relief.?
?It?s very good for me,? Carla Burgos told the Daily News. ?We are seeking justice for my sister, and the sooner we can get it, that's better.?
Bruce Beresford-Redman's lawyer said his client, who is now in federal custody in the U.S., has decided not to appeal a recent Los Angeles federal court ruling that uphold his extradition to Cancun, Mexico.
Lawyer Richard Hirsch said in a statement that the producer believes he would not have won an appeal and opted instead to begin the process of proving his innocence at trial.
Monica Beresford-Redman, the vivacious, Brazilian-born owner of a southern California restaurant, disappeared from a Cancun resort, where she was vacationing with her husband and two children in April 2010.
She agreed to take the fateful trip because she was hoping to reconcile with her husband after discovering he had cheated on her with a co-worker, relatives told The News.
Her body was found three days after her disappearance, stuffed in a sewer not far from the couple?s room at the Moon Palace resort.
The cause of death was ruled to be asphyxiation.
A witness at the hotel claims he saw the couple arguing on the day before Monica Beresford-Redman, 41, went missing.
Bruce Beresford-Redman, who grew up in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., and also produced MTV's ?Pimp My Ride,? has maintained his innocence.
His parents are now raising the couple's kids.
?My sister was my best friend, and I miss her so terribly," Carla Burgos told The News on Tuesday.
?I think of her everyday, if I don't cry everyday for her. It's just very important to have justice for her and for her kids.?
Bruce Beresford-Redman, 40, will be tried by a judge in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
If convicted of aggravated homicide, he faces 12 to 30 years in a Mexican prison.
Carla Burgos said she's focused on the trial ? which she hopes she will be able to attend ? and not the sentence.
?I don't know what's enough time, but for me, if he's found guilty, that would a huge thing. And I think the system in Mexico has been very fair and serious so far," she said.
"I just know that someone can't die like this, in such a horrible way, and then nothing happens. This has to stop. It can't happen to anybody else.?
With News Wire Services
ndillon@nydailynews.com
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