He spent some of his formative years in a disciplinarian household in Carlsbad, California, an oceanfront city near San Diego.
The Murphys also lived in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Modesto, California, before moving to the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania when he was a high school senior.
The burglar alarm system was non-operational, and the hall's 19 exterior windows were left open two inches overnight for ventilation.
[6] Murphy and both his accomplices, Alan Kuhn and Roger Clark, were arrested two days later after police had been tipped off by staff members at the Cambridge House hotel where the three men had been staying and throwing lavish parties.
Months later, prosecutors charged Murphy and Kuhn with the unrelated robbery and assault of actress Eva Gabor.
[7] In April 1965, Murphy, Kuhn and Clark pleaded guilty to burglary and grand larceny and were sentenced to three years.
[4] The heist was the subject of the film Murph the Surf (1975), directed by Marvin Chomsky, and starring Robert Conrad, Don Stroud (as Murphy), and Donna Mills.
[8] In 1967, in Broward County, Florida, the weighted-down bodies of Terry Rae Frank and Annelle Marie Mohn were found in Whiskey Creek Canal, near Hollywood, at the site of John U. Lloyd Beach State Park.
[11] In 1969, Murphy and an accomplice, Jack Griffith, were tried in Fort Lauderdale for the murder of 24-year-old Terry Rae Frank, one of two women whose bodies were found in the Whiskey Creek Canal.
[11] Bill Glass, Roger Staubach, and McCoy McLemore, world champion athletes and local businessmen, visited the Florida State prison in 1974.
Some conditions of his parole included making a $2500 donation to Meals on Wheels, and a restriction on returning to Dade and Broward counties, where the crimes were committed.
[citation needed] Murphy was the keynote speaker in Jerusalem during the 1st World Conference on Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation through Religion.
Jack Roland Murphy lived in Crystal River, Florida,[19] with his wife, Kitten, and grandchildren.
According to reports, Governor Rick Scott was personally willing to restore Murphy's rights, but did not have the additional two votes from cabinet members required under Florida law.