In the '70s Bob was a contractor for the mob.
He made enough money to pay rent and support his mother. In the following years, Bob dabbled in gambling and ended up in a lot of debt.
He found himself involved in a lot of risky jobs for some unknown contractor, which later turned out to be the mother of the Echo Killer - a soon-to-be-famous copycat serial killer.
Echo Killer was eventually caught by the police with Bob's help - but Bob was seriously injured during his capture. It took a while, but once Bob recovered, he packed his bags and took his mother and left town.
In the early '80s, Bob moved to the East Coast, with the goal of becoming a new man. Someone law-abiding. He was no longer 'The Cleaner'.
His mother's health was declining, so he took a job as a janitor in one of the local offices.
He was missing something - he preferred the thrill of his previous job to this mundane existence, but he was doing this to take care of his mother.
After his mother passed away, Bob realised the life of a decent man just wasn't for him and through one of his contacts, Bob got back into work - this time for a drug lord.
Bob spent the next few years drowning his sorrows before cutting ties with that part of his life - after one event in Miami where his paranoid boss wiped all of his own henchmen. He had asked his favourite wise-guy Bob, to clean up after him.
In the early 90s, Bob moved to NYC to do what he does best - cleaning. With an apartment in the Meatpacking District and a deal with Crawford & Simms Funeral Home to have as an "office", he got recognized by mob boss Don Reina. It was soon after this, he met the rest of the Serial Cleaners.
