CBS will broadcast a special "48 Hours" Saturday night on the verdict. It airs at 9/8c. 
 
 CANCUN, Mexico -- Former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redmond has been convicted on murder charges in the 2010 killing of his wife during a vacation in Mexico, his attorney told CBS News. 
 
 Attorney Jaime Cancino said Beresford-Redman was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison. He plans to appeal the case, claiming his client was convicted on circumstantial evidence. Beresford-Redman, his family and defense lawyers maintain his innocence. 
 
 In November 2014, after being held at the Benito Juarez prison in Cancun for nearly three years, Beresford-Redman gave "48 Hours" his first sit-down interview about the case. The program included footage he shot from inside the prison. 
 
 Mexican authorities claimed Beresford-Redman killed his wife, Monica, in their room at the Moon Palace resort in Cancun on the morning of April 5, 2010. 
 
 He then allegedly hid her body in the hotel room until evening before leaving it in a cistern about 75 yards away. Monica Beresford-Redman's body was discovered three days later, naked and beaten. 
 
 Beresford-Redman returned to the U.S. after his wife's death, but was extradited to Mexico in February 2012, where a judge ordered him to remain in custody until his trial. 
 
 In 2012, Jeanne and Carla Burgos told "48 Hours" they believe Beresford-Redman killed their sister. 
 
 Jeanne Burgos said she spoke with Monica the day before she was killed, and that her sister was upset that Beresford-Redman was having an affair. 
 
 "I told her, 'Monica, don't worry. You know, come back here, just move on with your life,'" Jeanne Burgos said. "...You're just going to build up your life again and you're going to be happy again." 
 
 "If he really killed my sister, which it looks like he did, I want him in jail," Carla Burgos said. "But it doesn't make me happy to see him in jail." 
 
 Beresford-Redman's parents have custody of the couple's two children, Camilla and Alec. 
 
 "48 Hours" will have an update on the Beresford-Redman murder case Saturday, March 14 at 9/8c. ||||| A Mexican court found Bruce Beresford-Redman guilty of murdering his wife Monica Burgos in 2010. 
 
 A Mexican judge in Cancun sentenced Bruce Beresford-Redman on Thursday to 12 years in prison and issued a $2,791 (43,000 peso) fine for the murder of his wife Monica Burgos in 2010. Beresford-Redman, a former producer on Survivor and the co-creator of the reality show Pimp My Ride, had been charged with the aggravated murder of Burgos during a family vacation to the Moon Palace Resort and Spa hotel during the spring of 2010. 
 
 “We are appalled and disgusted with this gross miscarriage of justice,” said Juanita and David Beresford-Redman in a statement on Thursday, immediately following the announcement. “Over an exhausting three and a half year period this trial has done nothing but prove Bruce’s innocence beyond any doubt,” they wrote. “Whatever lies behind this ruling it is based on neither facts nor evidence. This is a disservice to Monica’s memory; this is not the justice she and Bruce still deserve and that we continue to demand.” 
 
 Burgos’ murder made international headlines in 2010 after a hotel worker found her body dumped in a sewage cistern at the Moon Palace hotel a day after Bruce had reported her missing. The couple’s two children, Camilla and Alex, 5 and 3 at the time, also were on the vacation. Burgos’ body was found mangled and bloated by a hotel maintenance worker on the morning after Burgos’ disappearance. 
 
 After an initial investigation, Beresford-Redman returned to his home in California. But Mexican authorities soon issued an extradition request, and in 2012, a U.S. magistrate sent him back to Mexico, where he has remained ever since, awaiting trial. Throughout the trial, Mexican prosecutors insisted on Beresford-Redman’s guilt even though forensic evidence failed to back up their theory and successive witnesses either backed out or gave testimony that backed up Bruce’s repeated claims of innocence. 
 
 On Thursday, Beresford-Redman’s Mexico-based attorney said that he would file an appeal “immediately.” “They have nothing against him; this is just to justify his conviction,” Cancino said. “There’s no surprise here. I believe it’s political.” 
 
 “We are just going to keep going on, working the appeal, and hoping this will be the end of it,” said Juanita Beresford-Redman, adding: “We’ve told the children, told them that it’s a farce.” 
 
 Burgos’ two sisters have said they believe Bruce is their sister’s killer. The sisters’ lawyer, Alison Triessl, did not return a call for comment. 
 
 The Mexican Attorney General in Cancun also did not answer phone calls to his office. 
 
 After CBS aired a show last year in which Beresford-Redman took videos of himself from prison speaking frankly about the challenges of living behind bars, he was stripped of all his privileges. As of this week, he is housed in the “Albatross” cell of the Benito Juarez prison, a section reserved for newly arrived inmates. He is sleeping on the floor. 
 
 Cancino says that the first appeal will take place in Cancun state court. If that fails, he will file a federal appeal and, if necessary, take the case all the way to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. 
 
 “He will come home one day,” said Juanita Beresford-Redman. “He definitely will come home.” ||||| Bruce Beresford-Redman Convicted of Murdering Wife 
 
 Breaking News 
 
 Bruce Beresford-Redman, the former "Survivor" producer who has been in a Mexican jail for 4 years after his wife was found murdered in Mexico, has been found guilty. 
 
 A judge in Mexico sentenced Beresford-Redman to 12 years in prison for murdering Monica. Her body was found in a sewer on the hotel property where the 2 were vacationing. Authorities say she was strangled. The 2 were heard arguing shortly before she disappeared. 
 
 Beresford-Redman will receive credit for the 4 years he has already served. His lawyers say they will appeal the conviction. ||||| CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — A onetime American reality television producer was convicted Thursday of murdering his wife during a 2010 Cancun beach vacation, a state prosecutor said. 
 
 FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman poses for a portrait at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. On Thursday, March 12, 2015, a Mexican judge sentenced... (Associated Press) 
 
 Bruce Beresford-Redman was convicted and then sentenced to 12 years in prison by Judge Víctor Manuel Echeverria Tun, Quintana Roo state prosecutor Gaspar Armando Garcia Torres said. 
 
 The onetime "Survivor" producer was on vacation in Cancun with his wife, Monica Burgos Beresford-Redman, and their two children in 2010 when her body was found in a sewer cistern at the resort where they were staying. 
 
 The vacation was supposed to be an attempt to repair their marriage after she learned her husband had cheated on her. 
 
 The family of Burgos issued a statement through their lawyer, Alison Triessl, late Thursday. 
 
 "It has been nearly 5 years since they lost their beloved sister," Triessl said. "Not a day goes by that they don't miss her terribly and nothing will bring her back, but they can finally say that she has received the justice she deserved." 
 
 Stephen Jaffe, a spokesman for Beresford-Redman's U.S. attorneys, said Beresford-Redman's lawyer in Mexico would comment Friday on regarding an appeal. 
 
 Garcia Torres expressed disappointment in the length of Beresford-Redman's sentence, noting that prosecutors had asked for more. He left open the possibility that prosecutors would appeal to seek a longer prison term after analyzing the judge's decision. 
 
 "We wanted a maximum sentence," Garcia Torres said. "We asked for a maximum sentence that we considered should be 50 years for murder." 
 
 He expressed confidence that prosecutors during the three-year process had proved Beresford-Redman killed his wife. "We're convinced of his guilt." 
 
 Beresford-Redman maintained his innocence, but in 2011 a U.S. court upheld his extradition. In 2012, U.S. State Department officials signed a warrant clearing his extradition to Mexico. And shortly after arriving in Mexico, a judge ordered the Emmy-nominated producer to stand trial on a murder charge. 
 
 Part of the evidence in the case included statements from hotel guests who said they heard loud arguing and cries of distress coming from the couple's room on the night the 42-year-old victim went missing. 
 
 The producer's lawyers maintained the noises came from Beresford-Redman and his children playing loud games throughout the night and argued there was not any forensic evidence that he killed his wife. 
 
 Beresford-Redman had been ordered to stay in Mexico when his wife's body was found, but he returned to Los Angeles, where he surrendered to authorities after an arrest warrant was issued in Mexico. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Anthony McCartney in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
– Five years after Monica Burgos was found murdered in Mexico, her husband has been found guilty of the crime. Prosecutors maintained former Survivor producer Bruce Beresford-Redman killed his wife on April 5, 2010, in a room at Cancun's Moon Palace resort, then dumped her body in a cistern, and a judge yesterday sentenced Beresford-Redman to 12 years in prison. He'll be credited for four years already served, TMZ reports. A lawyer for Beresford-Redman, who must also pay a $2,791 fine, says he'll appeal the decision as it is based on circumstantial evidence, CBS News reports. A state prosecutor, who had asked for a 50-year sentence, says he may appeal the decision in an attempt to secure a lengthier prison term, the AP reports. Beresford-Redman and his lawyers maintain he is innocent and that the prosecution had no forensic evidence that pointed to him as the killer; the Hollywood Reporter notes that witnesses "backed out" or gave testimony that supported his story (read more on the doubts that clouded the trial). "Over an exhausting three-and-a-half-year period, this trial has done nothing but prove Bruce's innocence beyond any doubt," said his parents. "We are appalled and disgusted with this gross miscarriage of justice." Beresford-Redman's mom, who has custody of the couple's two children, says she has "told them that it's a farce." A lawyer for Burgos' family says, per the AP, "Not a day goes by that they don't miss her terribly and nothing will bring her back, but they can finally say that she has received the justice she deserved." Click for more on the case.