He operated on the side as a contract killer, working for the Hells Angels and other organized crime groups in Canada.
[2] The bodybuilder Simard had an extensive record for petty crime-having 80 convictions for such offenses as shoplifting, theft and writing bouncing cheques, which precluded a police career.
[citation needed] The man, Dany Kane, was also a contract killer for the Hells Angels group and the two were able to work together on a number of occasions.
The journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden wrote that Kane "seemed to view Simard as a goofy sort of toy-somebody he could play with or employ as the need arose".
[4] In early February 1997, Simard shot a drug dealer who owed the Rockers money and his girlfriend in Quebec City.
[5] In February 1997, Aimé Simard and Dany Kane drove from Quebec to Halifax, in order to murder a businessman and drug dealer who owed the club money.
[8] On their way to Halifax, Simard and Kane were pulled over by the RCMP under the suspicion of smuggling drugs; though no drugs were found, it caused a "silent hit" on the RCMP's computers, which alerted officers whenever an informer has contact with the police, which led them to become curious about what Kane was doing in New Brunswick.
[10] Afterwards, Simard and Kane drove back to Montreal, only stopping to drop off their guns, clothing, and the stolen Nova Scotia license plates into a forest.
[10] Unknown to Kane and Simard, the security cameras at the warehouse had recorded the killing, but the grainy footage taken at night made identification difficult.
[1] On 5 March 1997, Kane was asked by his RCMP handlers about Simard, whom he called "very unpredictable and dangerous...capable of anything".
[14] Caissy of the Rock Machine was killed leaving a hockey area in Montreal, when Simard walked up to him, shot him in the head, and then dialed 555 357 on his pager to alert his superior Pierre Provencher that the murder was done.
[16] Simard left the murder weapon, a Magnum handgun, at a locker at the Pro-Gym where it was found by a janitor, who reported the gun to the police.
[15] After his arrest, Simard agreed to become a délateur (informer) and named all of the crimes he had committed, including the murder of McFarlane.
[1] Simard made a plea-bargain with the Crown, receiving 12 years in prison for one count of second-degree murder.
One judge, Félix Cacchione, said that Simard "displayed a cold-blooded remorseless and a manipulative personality while testifying" during Kane's trial for murdering MacFarlane in 1998.
[14] Simard had requested the transfer to Prince Albert Institution in Saskatchewan only a few months prior to his death in 2003.
[20] An inmate told authorities that he had been present at a prison-yard meeting during which Starblanket accepted a $25,000 contract to go after Simard.