Madonna’s Stalker Escapes Friday 10th February 2012 | Osh A manhunt has been launched by Californian police as the stalker who threatened Madonna in the 90’s walked unnoticed from a mental health hospital. 54 year old Robert Dewey Hoskins was jailed for ten years in 1996 after threatening to slit the singer’s throat. But things didn’t stop there. Not only did he claim that he was Madonna’s husband, he also jumped over the wall to her home and into the pool before a security guard shot him Being described as psychotic with violent tendencies, he walked out of the hospital last Friday.