Ex-Survivor Producer Plans to Blame Wife, If Charged With Her Murder

Bruce Beresford-Redman huddling with high-powered attorney in Mexico; willing to claim wife was the cheating party

Having produced Survivor, this guy ought to know about outwitting, outplaying and outlasting his adversaries.

Maybe that's why Bruce Beresford-Redman is planning to pull out the "blame the victim" strategy to defend himself from possible charges of killing his wife at a Cancun resort.

E! News has exclusively learned the Emmy-nominated TV producer is still hiding out from the media in the Mexican city of Merida, huddling with Eduardo Amerena, the noted criminal lawyer who successfully defended Duane "Dog" Chapman back in 2007, plotting a counterattack in the increasingly likely chance he is formally accused of slaying wife Monica and stuffing her body into a sewer.

"[Bruce] is going to say he didn't do it and that she was cheating on him," an insider tells E! News.

Up until now, Monica's family has kept the heat on Bruce amid reports he cheated on Monica with a reality-TV casting director. But he intends to deny having anything to do with the murder while claiming that his wife was also unfaithful.

According to the insider, Beresford-Redman, who worked on CBS' Survivor several years ago as well as cocreated MTV's Pimp My Ride, is "very distraught" and hasn't had direct contact with friends since last Wednesday. Mexican authorities are forcing him to remain in the country until a decision is made on charges.

"He is afraid he will go to jail and never see his kids again," says the source. "Everyone has been worried that he might off himself, but as of yesterday he was hanging in there."

However, another source close to Monica's family takes issue with any allegations that she was the cheating party, portraying her as a dedicated wife and mother.

"Of course they would say that when she can't defend herself," says the source. "It was the opposite."

Monica found out three months ago that Bruce was seeing someone, the source says, and she "had proof that he was cheating and he admitted it."

While she had contemplated a divorce, the source says Bruce talked her out of filing. Instead, he persuaded her to cancel a birthday trip to her home country of Brazil to go with him to Cancun "to work it out."

And we know how that ended.

Monica's family is accepting donations to go toward the the care of her and Bruce's children at Monicaburgosmemorialfund.com.