Kevin Stuart, who was serving time at the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon, passed away on May 17 2024 from apparent natural causes.
He was 72 at the time of death.
Stuart was a career criminal, his record began in 1968, and he was first sentence to a federal prison in 1971.
He was also handed a four year sentence for sexual assault in Vancouver in 1981.
Stuart was sentence to 20 years for 70 convictions in 1992, but he managed to escaped from the Drumheller medium security institution shortly after being transferred.
After being recaptured he was sent to Kent maximum security, where a body cavity search would find a jeweler’s saw and key hidden in his rectum.
In 1995 he famously escaped from the Kent institution in a cardboard box that contained personal items belonging to another prisoner who was being let out on statutory release.
Stuart’s escape would trigger an intensive manhunt, warning the public that he was a master of disguise.
Stuart had plastic surgery in the past as well as gained and lost weight to alter his appearance.
While on the run Stuart would assault and rob the owner of a sporting goods store, steal a firearm, and use that gun to hold up the Bank of Nova Scotia in Vancouver twice, before being recaptured two weeks later.
In 1998, Kevin Walter Stuart was declared a dangerous offender, and sentenced to life in prison.
At the time of being sentenced, Stuart had 107 criminal convictions on his record.
In a media statement, Correctional Service of Canada says they will review the circumstances of the inmates death. They also state it is their policy to notify the police and coroner.