Man who murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio dies
Murdoch, 67, was serving a life sentence at a prison in Alice Springs, in Australia's Northern Territory.
He was being treated at hospital in Alice Springs in recent weeks for terminal cancer.
The Northern Territory Department of Corrections told the BBC there had been a death of a man in custody.
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