Father knows worst: Notorious Fraser Valley sex offender's son charged with domestic violence

Kendall Clayton Muir is a high-risk sex offender reportedly in a halfway house in Chilliwack; Kendall James Muir faces numerous criminal charges from Hope, including a 'K' file

In the late 2010s, women in the Eastern Fraser Valley shared warnings and horror stories about a high-risk sex offender named Kendall Clayton Kenneth Muir.

I wrote about Muir back in 2019 as part of an op-ed on the larger scourge of domestic violence that has plagued society for, well, forever. So-called “K” files – the label used in B.C.’s criminal justice system for the all-too-common cases of intimate partner violence – are ubiquitous on daily court lists.

Muir has a lengthy criminal record, one of the worst files was when he pleaded guilty to forcible confinement, sexual assault, assault with a weapon, possession of firearms, uttering threats to cause harm, property damage, and assault in Kamloops in 2016.

He has a history of offences across B.C. dating back to 1996, a large number of which are K files. The last year he offended in B.C. according to public records was 2020, then nothing. Good riddance, I suppose. 

So when I saw a post about Muir on a local Facebook group, I looked into his new charges. And there are quite a few. 

I started to write something up about Muir, a draft that began with a very different lede from the one above: “Bad news. He’s back in the ‘Wack.” You see if you search the first and last name “Kendall Muir,” you'll see has 42 entries on B.C.’s court services online website covering 23 criminal files in Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Quesnel, Williams Lake, Kamloops, and Dawson Creek, dating back to 1996.

As I pored over his many files over three pages of court services online, I saw his name listed in different ways sometimes, which is unsurprising because many offenders are listed under slightly different spellings, many have aliases. There are some with no middle name listed, some with the middle names “Clayton Kenneth,” some with “James.” Muir also does have a few aliases: Ken Calderoni, Kendall Calderoni, an alleged victim said another is Ken Billick.

There isn’t a lot of personal information available on the province’s court services online website about people charged with criminal offences. Basically a name, a year of birth, and whether or not they are in or out of custody on that particular charge. When I looked up the latest charges I noticed that it listed Kendall James Muirborn 1998. 

Wait, what? He’s a lot older than that.

Then I clicked on a different file to see that Kendall Clayton Kenneth Muir is indeed born in 1968. So is this a coincidence of names? An entry mistake? A father and son? Turns out it is the latter, which struck me as surprising and intergenerationally horrific. 

So Kendall Muir Sr., aged 56 or 57, is the one whose long list of criminal offences, many domestic violence, started in 1996 and seemed to end in 2020, and who apparently moved to a halfway house in 2025.

And Kendall Muir Jr., aged 26 or 27, also has some aliases, Kendall Morris, according to public records, but also Antonio or Anthony or Gino Muir. Muir Jr. has been causing trouble in Hope for several years with allegations of trespassing, threats, vandalism, and theft, according to someone so sick of criminal behaviour in the small community. Someone created a vigilante-style Facebook group to report about him and other miscreant behaviour in Hope.

“It was getting so bad out here that a year ago November I started the group to try and get Hope back to the way it was, safe and friendly,” Michael James who started “Get Them Out!” on Facebook told me.

Currently, Muir Jr. is facing charges of criminal harassment, mischief, and unlawfully causing bodily harm in a K file from April 4, 2025. He is scheduled to go on trial on that charge on Jan. 9, 2026.

He also has two more open files. One goes to trial on Jan. 7, 2025, a charge of fear of injury or damage to person or property. The other is charge of break-and-enter from Dec. 16, 2024 in Hope. He was in court on Tuesday (Oct. 7, 2025) at which time a trial was scheduled for Dec. 1, 2025.

So to clarify those 42 entries connected to the name “Kendall Muir.” Of those, 37 belong to the experienced Muir Sr., and five belong to Muir Jr. who seems to be just getting started. But here's hoping he quickly learns not to follow in his father's notorious footsteps.

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