Slain Woman's Kin Want Extradition of Ex-TV Producer

(Sept. 10) -- Jeane Burgos and Carla Van Bastelaar want justice for their sister, the slain wife of former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman, and are asking the U.S. government for help.

Five months after Monica Beresford-Redman's body was found in a sewer in Cancun, Mexico, her sisters want to see Monica's husband Bruce, whom Mexican officials consider the prime suspect in her murder, extradited to stand trial in Mexico. In May, Mexican authorities issued an arrest warrant for 39-year-old Beresford-Redman after he left the country for the U.S. without their permission.

Alison Triessl, the sisters' lawyer, says she has written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton requesting the ex-producer's extradition.

"We're asking that [Clinton] assist the Mexican authorities in carrying out their request," Triessl said today on NBC's "Today" Show. "We're simply asking that the United States not to stand in the way in Mexico's pursuit of justice."

The sisters say they remain in mourning. "I think I wasn't even able to really touch the real pain I feel with all of this," Burgos told NBC.

On April 5, Monica disappeared from the Moon Palace resort in Cancun where she and Bruce were vacationing. Her body was found three days later not far from the resort. Officials say she was strangled.

Francisco Alor, attorney general of the state of Quintana Roo, says Beresford-Redman is the prime suspect in the case.

Beresford-Redman has maintained his innocence. "I am devastated at her loss, and I am incensed at the suggestion that I could have had anything to do with her death," he said in the statement earlier this year. "I am innocent."

The former CBS producer said he left Mexico "to be with his children and to attend to family and personal matters," according to a June 1 report in the Los Angeles Times. The couple have two children, 5-year-old Camila and 3-year-old Alec.

In April, Van Bastelaar speculated that Beresford-Redman may have been responsible for the killing. "For her, the trip was for reconciliation," she told the New York Daily News on April 8. "Now, I wonder if the whole trip was premeditated."

Van Bastelaar said she still feels her sister's presence. "She's so much in my head that it's like she's around me, you know," she said on the "Today" show. "She's still here. Because I can feel her."