In 1998, Murdock was convicted of three mob hits, sentenced to life imprisonment, but later released on parole in 2011 after he served 13 years in prison.
[2] By the 1980s, Murdock worked as a bouncer at Hamilton strip clubs and also earned money through extortion and armed robbery.
[2] Murdock's first mob hit for the family, for $3,000, was on November 21, 1985 on Stelco janitor Salvatore Alaimo whose brother Giovanni owed considerable gambling money to Dominic Musitano.
[3] Murdock had worked as a chauffeur-bodyguard to their father, and had come to think of the younger Musitanos as nephews to whom he was indebted, accepted the offer.
[3] On May 31, 1997, Murdock shot mob boss Johnny Papalia in the head in the parking lot of 20 Railway Street outside his vending machine business in Hamilton; he later testified that he had been hired to do so by Angelo and Pat Musitano of the Musitano crime family, who owed Papalia some $250,000.
[7] On July 23, 1997, he shot Carmen Barillaro, the right-hand man of Papalia and a previously convicted drug trafficker, with a 9mm handgun after making the comment, "This is a message from Pat".
[7] In a later interview with journalist Peter Edwards, Murdock claimed that Pat Musitano actually "ordered" him to enter a coffee house with a machine gun to shoot all of the leaders of the Luppino-Violi group.
[7] Eventually, the Canadian intelligence agencies were convinced that the Musitano brothers did not act alone in the murders of Johnny Papalia and Carmen Barillaro.
[7] In an interview, Murdock revealed cocaine helped him cope with job stress, but consoles himself with thoughts of the half-dozen killings he was ordered to do, but did not go through with such as sparing professional wrestler and Satan's Choice biker gang member Ion Croitoru and key members of the Luppino crime family.
[10] The police had bugged The Gathering Spot pizzeria owned by the Musitanos, who mocked and laughed at Murdock behind his back, calling him a dim-witted "scumbag" who they held in complete contempt.
"In an interview with journalist Peter Edwards, Murdock explained the rationale for his involvement with Angelo and Pat Musitano.
[22][5] After release from prison, he relocated to British Columbia where he worked as a truck driver under his changed surname, Bishop.