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3rd most viewed story of 2025 about high-risk sex offender Kendall Clayton Muir & his son Kendall James Muir, facing domestic violence charges in Hope

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Like father like son. Not in a good way.

In the late 2010s, some 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 the tragedy seen daily in our court system.

In Kamloops in 2016, Muir pleaded guilty to forcible confinement, sexual assault, assault with a weapon, possession of firearms, uttering threats to cause harm, property damage, and assault.

He has a history of offences across B.C. dating back to 1996, a large number of which are K files. The last year of any those files was 2020, then nothing. 

Good riddance maybe? 

So when I saw a post about Muir in October 2025 on a local Facebook group, I looked into his new charges, which are many. 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.”

The name “Kendall Muir” 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 compiled his many files over three pages of court services online, I saw his name listed in different ways sometimes with the middle names “Clayton Kenneth” in others with no middle name, some with “James.” This is unsurprising because many offenders are listed under slightly different spellings, many have aliases. Muir has many aliases, Ken Calderoni, Kendall Calderoni, an alleged victim said another alias is Ken Billick.

There isn’t much public information available on the province’s court services online website about people charged with criminal offences other than year of birth and whether or not they are in custody on that particular charge is listed. I looked up the latest charges and almost accidentally noticed that Kendall James Muir is born 1998. 

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

Then I clicked on a different file to see that Kendall Clayton Kenneth Muir is born in 1968. So is this a father and son? A coincidence of names? The same person with a mistake, someone misplaced a “9” for a “6” in year of birth?

Turns out it is the former, which struck me as surprising and intergenerationally horrific. 

This was the third most-read story of 2025 on Something Worth Reading, maybe somewhat surprising but it could be another example of one that was shared in just the right way, in the right places, making it go a little viral.

I finally got it straight: Kendall Muir, aged 56 or 57, was the one whose long list of criminal offences, many domestic violence, seemed to end in 2020, and who apparently moved to a halfway house in 2025. 

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 noticeable trouble in Hope for several years with allegations of trespassing, threats, vandalism, and theft, according to someone so sick of his behaviour they started a vigilante-style Facebook group to report about him and other criminal court frequent fliers 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 accusation from April 4, 2025. He is scheduled for a one-day 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 was a charge of break-and-enter from Dec. 16, 2024 from Hope with a trial scheduled for Dec. 1, 2025. AS of Dec. 28, 2025, this file was not searchable at court service online so it’s unclear if it was resolved.

Of the 42 entries on court services online connected to the name “Kendall Muir.” Of those, 37 belong to the experienced Muir Sr. and five to Muir Jr. who seems to be just getting started.

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