Mark spent most of his life in prison, where he was better known as ‘Murder.’ He said the origin of his nickname was a ‘long story’ but over the years he was in and out of a cell, it eventually evolved into Murdock. Whether he was Murder, Murdock or Mark, the dad was a fixture in jail, never managing to spend more than six months in the outside world once released before reoffending.
But that was until he enrolled in a ‘life-changing’ programme at a Washington DC jail. Now, Mark has been living at home with his family for four years and counting. Before becoming a changed man, Mark’s crimes devastated his young daughter Santana, who aged 10 said she was ‘sick’ of seeing herself cry each time her father was put behind bars again.
Continually exasperated over her father’s crimes, she vowed never to shed ‘even one single tear’ if his pattern of reoffending persisted, as she told filmmakers in Netflix documentary Daughters. She was asked what she would say to Mark, who was then incarcerated if she had free rein. Her words were bruising.
‘Next time you get out of jail, next time you go back to jail, I’m not gonna even shed one single tear,’ Santana said, envisaging her father. ‘I’m done shedding tears because he keeps doing bad stuff he shouldn’t be doing. It’s not OK.
It’s affecting me.’ Sitting in a car as the rain pounded on the windows, Santana also told the documentary makers how Mark’s absence was having a profound effect on her fu.