Kenneth Murdock

Kenneth Bishop (born 1963), previously named Kenneth Murdock, is a Canadian truck driver who was a hitman for the Musitano crime family of Hamilton, Ontario. He was convicted of three mob hits, served 13 years in prison, and was released on parole.

In the 1970s, Murdock's stepfather, John Akister had relations with Musitano family boss Dominic Musitano. By the 1980s, Murdock worked as a bouncer at Hamilton strip clubs and also earned money through extortion and armed robbery. In 1984, Murdock built a relationship with Tony Musitano, brother of Dominic, while in jail for armed robbery; Murdock was later paroled in October of that year.

Murdock's first mob hit for the family, for $3,000, was in 1985 on Stelco janitor Salvatore Alaimo who owed gambling money to Dominic Musitano. He used a submachine gun and later told the Star that he had planned only to frighten Alaimo. "I actually wasn’t trying to shoot him. I was trying to shoot all around him...When the thing goes off, it has a mind of its own."

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. The cost of the hit was substantially less — depending on the source, the payment received by Murdock was either $2,000 or $3,000; some reports indicate that Murdock received $2,000 plus 40 grams of cocaine.

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". The murder occurred in Barillaro's Niagara Falls home after the victim's wife and children had left. Murdock said that Angelo Musitano was waiting in the vehicle outside during this time. The two then left the scene.

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 sparring professional wrestler and Satan's Choice biker gang member Ion Croitoru and key members of the 'Ndrangheta Mafia such as Jimmy Luppino of the Luppino crime family.

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