CANCúN, Mexico (AFP) — US television producer Bruce Beresford-Redman was released Friday by Mexican police after being held for around 12 hours over the death of his wife in the beach resort of Cancún.

The Emmy-nominated former producer of the Survivor series was still under suspicion of involvement in the death of his 42-year-old wife, Monica, whom he reported missing Monday before her body turned up in a sewer at a luxury hotel three days later.

“He is now at the disposition of the US consulate. He can’t leave the country, nor the state,” Francisco Alor Quezada, prosecutor of eastern Quintana Roo state, told AFP.

Hotel employees said they had seen the couple arguing on Monday night and that Beresford-Redman had threatened to hit his wife, according to outgoing Quintana Roo state prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez on Thursday.

His wife had suffered blows to the head and she could have been strangled, Rodriguez told journalists.

The couple arrived in Cancún on March 31 and were due to return to the United States on Thursday.

Monica Beresford-Redman was born in Rio de Janeiro and owned a restaurant on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.