Cancun (Mexico): A onetime American reality television producer has been convicted of murdering his wife during a 2010 Cancun beach vacation, a state prosecutor said.

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.