48 Hours: Bruce Beresford-Redman
I have yet to watch 48 Hours from last weekend, but I have heard and seen that Bruce Beresford-Redman has been convicted of killing his wife Monica in Mexico in 2012. You can watch the show above. If the link doesn’t work, you can click here.
I teach this case in my class and wrote about it on my blog back in 2012 when this case came to light that I did not trust Bruce. Now a jury agrees.
Yet Bruce is still clinging to his innocence. I’m really curious to see if he makes more slips in this show!
You can read my original analysis of Bruce back in 2012 here.
Bruce was convicted on March 12, and given a light sentence of only 12 years.
His demeanor when he talks about Monica at the beginning of their relationship is completely different than when he talks about the death of his wife. He says “I lost everything I worked my whole life to build” not my beautiful amazing wife is dead. He says in my dreams, I am free, I am home, I am with my children. Really? Where’s his wife in these dreams? He refuses to talk about his affair, but had no trouble flaunting it in front of his sisters-in-law. His explanations are bizarre, and I don’t believe him.
There are so many red flags in this case. The part that really caught my attention and made my hair stand on end was when he says that the first thing he remembers about that night was bathing and putting the kids to bed. Then, he says when they were asleep, he went outside to try to see Monica coming back. Wouldn’t the first thing he remembered be that he was concerned that his wife was not back by bedtime?
I have wondered about the children hearing their mother being killed. I think that he must have waited until the kids were in bed the night before he claims she went shopping. I think he and Monica stepped outside, and he murdered her outside. She died of suffocation and a massive head wound, which would have been impossible to clean up to avoid detection.inside the room. He wouldn’t let house-cleaning in the day he said she went shopping all day. I have wondered if that was because her body was in the room. He could have been waiting for the children to go to sleep, so he could take her body out to put in the sewer.
I don’t believe everything was wonderful between he and Monica. Also, it doesn’t sound at all logical that she would have gone off shopping without her cellphone. None of his story sounds like a responsible business owner, wife, and mother. She would have been more concerned about her children in Mexico than in the U.S. If she had left her cellphone behind, I believe she would have returned to get it. This story doesn’t sound right, at all.
I noticed he had pictures of his kids in his cell, but he doesn’t mention a picture of Monica. If he dreams of Monica, so much, he would want a picture of her, too. There are too may red flags here, and his story isn’t believable.
Eyes has already pointed out how he said all of a sudden, everything that he knew and cared about, just sort of disappears. That statement is minimizing what has happened, drastically. No one that cares about someone says they just sort of disappear, especially, when they are murdered and thrown in a sewer. That statement says a lot to me.
I watched a few minutes of this video (not remembering your post from 2012) without reading anything. Not only did a lot of things raise my suspicions, I didn’t feel a need for confirmation via a feedback loop to be confident. Maybe a corner has been turned…;)
Awesome, Paul!