The Homicide Squad is now investigating Murdoch s death. The exact circumstances relating to the death have yet to be determined, Victoria Police said in a statement. It is standard procedure for all deaths in custody to be investigated by the Homicide Squad.
Murdoch was also jailed for leaving widow Ilona Prohaska for dead after he slashed her throat with a knife.
The attacks on the women happened while Murdoch was on parole for the earlier attack of another woman in her home.
She was also stabbed and beaten.
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Mother Kylie Blackwood was murdered during a robbery gone wrong.(Supplied)
A ruthless killer who stabbed a mother-of-three in the chest and throat and left her to die in a pool of her own blood during a botched robbery has been found dead in his jail cell.
Scott Alan Murdoch was sentenced to life behind bars with a non-parole period of 36 years in May 2020 for stabbing Kylie Blackwood multiple times in her Pakenham home, in Melbourne s south-east, in August 2013.
He was also convicted for hammering a knife into the throat of defenseless grandmother Ilona Prohaska just three months prior.
At about 6am on Monday morning, the 43-year-old was found dead inside Melbourne Assessment Prison.