Robert Hoskins, Who Was Convicted Of Threatening To Kill Madonna, Sought By Police After Escaping Mental Hospital

Singer Madonna performs during the NFL Super Bowl XLVI halftime show on February 5, 2012 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES — Police are asking for the public's help in locating a man who was convicted of threatening to kill Madonna and walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week.

Los Angeles police say Robert Dewey Hoskins left the state hospital Friday. He had been committed there last year.

Hoskins, 54, is "highly psychotic" and can be extremely violent and should not be approached by members of the public, police said in a news release Thursday. They urged anyone who sees him to call authorities immediately.

Hoskins served a 10-year prison sentence for stalking and threatening Madonna after being convicted by a jury in 1996. The singer reluctantly testified against the man, who was shot by her personal security after he jumped the fence of her Hollywood Hills home.

Court records show he was convicted of vandalism in July 2011.

Police say they have searched areas where Hoskins may try to go, including the city of Long Beach south of Los Angeles, but they have been unable to find him.

Comments

[Sierra Leann Oelslager]

08:55 PM on 02/11/2012

i hate actors, singers, anyone famous because when they get stalked oh it's 911 one time jail for 10 years or long. and when normal people get stalked they wait unit they kill or something something. this is compete b.s i feel bad for Madonna but about every body else like my mom who got kill by a stalker

[freddsky]

12:49 PM on 02/10/2012

The public are warned to be on the lookout for a delusion myopic who thinks it's 1983.

OK, I kid the Material Cronette. Being stalked is no fun and death threats are not cool. People keep threatening me with "life" and that's scary enough. Stay safe, milady. Serious.

[RJKERB08]

10:02 AM on 02/10/2012

They should make him watch the halftime show, that would probably get him to stop stalking her.

[Nichole Francois]

09:55 AM on 02/10/2012

At least they didn't refer to him as "hysterical" as if it were 1875. Or say he escaped from an asylum!

[Nichole Francois]

09:47 AM on 02/10/2012

He probably watched the halftime show and now he REALLY wants to kill her.

[GeorgeBurnsWasRight]

09:45 AM on 02/10/2012

I agree that people who have been found unable to stand trial because of mental illness should not be placed in regular prisons, but when they're also deemed violent they should be held under better security until they've been successfully treated so they can't just "walk away".

[GhiaccioPronto]

09:41 AM on 02/10/2012

“I love you. Will you be my wife for keeps. Robert Dewey Hoskins.”
“be mind (sic) and I’ll be yours.” Meet me somewhair (sic). Love for keeps. Robert Dewey Hoskins.”

Just come right out and say no, madonna, quit stringing him along

[american-dolt]

09:41 AM on 02/10/2012

More PR.

[tick-food]

09:39 AM on 02/10/2012

How sad. Everybody hates Madonna, but that's no reason to threaten her life and throw away a perfectly good acting career. I loved Bob Hoskins as Kruschev in "Enemy at the Gates."

[GhiaccioPronto]

10:07 AM on 02/10/2012

I wouldn't go so far as to say he threw away his career.

[shawman65]

09:32 AM on 02/10/2012

He's really George Bush

[Patrick Shaw]

09:19 AM on 02/10/2012

I saw the halftime show and let me tell you...you'd have to be mental to chase after that.

[pcpc]

09:07 AM on 02/10/2012

Wouldn't it be funny if the patient were Maggie herself?

[imayes]

08:59 AM on 02/10/2012

I hear he's the next candidate for the GOP presidential nomination. Just wait for him to show up at the next debate.

[Nichole Francois]

09:48 AM on 02/10/2012

ssshhhhhhhhhhh, thats a G.O.P secret!

[Steve Hanna 20]

08:57 AM on 02/10/2012

A man that they classify as extremely violent walks away. what could possibly go wrong with this?

[olephart]

08:54 AM on 02/10/2012

Did they check the CPAC convention?