LONG BEACH, Calif. — Knives, a headless doll and videos of young kids were among the creepy possessions found in a California storage locker that once belonged to Madonna’s stalker Robert Dewey Hoskins, KCAL-TV reported.
Hoskins, 54, who was convicted of stalking the pop star in 1996 and recently tried to escape the psychiatric hospital he is currently being held in, kept his possessions in a storage facility in Long Beach until he missed his rent payments and his belongings were sold.
As well as lots of Madonna memorabilia, the new owner Jerry Licardi — who had no idea who the locker belonged to when he bought it — found a large collection of knives, a topless photo of Hoskins showing off a Madonna tattoo on his stomach, hand-written rants and photos of the singer.
He also discovered a collection of dolls — one with no head — and some home videos of young children in a school play, kids playing with a camera and a woman reading lines from a soap opera.
Investigators said they found the contents worrying as Hoskins has no known children.
“I think the knives, the tattoo on the stomach, the photos of Madonna – this man is still focused on her and that is what concerns always,” former Los Angeles homicide detectives Sergio Robleto told KCAL-TV.
Referring to the headless doll, Robleto, now a private investigator, added, “That, to say the least, bothered me because, is he focusing on something else now? To me that meant real danger … it didn’t look good to me.”
Police took photos of the belongings but did not take any as evidence as there are no investigations against Hoskins active at present.
Hoskins, who once scaled a wall at the star’s Hollywood home and threatened to cut her throat from ear to ear, escaped from a psychiatric hospital earlier in February. He was nabbed near the Norwalk, Calif., facility from which he escaped.
Police described him as “a very psychotic man when not taking his medication” with “very violent tendencies.”
He was jailed for 10 years in 1996 and after his release was transferred to a hospital where he was determined to be a “mentally disturbed offender,” police said.
Last July, about a year after his release from that hospital, he was arrested again and sent to the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, southeast of Los Angeles.