John Manard, notorious Kansas prison escapee, died Sunday in Arizona prison

John Manard, whose 2006 escape from a Kansas prison in a dog crate shocked the nation, died Sunday at an Arizona prison.

Manard, 45, was serving a life sentence for a 1996 murder in Johnson County when he escaped from the Lansing Correctional Facility with the help of a woman who ran a dog-training program at the prison.

Toby Young, who was married, said she and Manard fell in love while Manard worked in the dog-training program.

Young and Manard spent nearly two weeks on the run before being captured in Tennessee.

Young, now known as Toby Dorr, spent 27 months in prison for her part in the escape.

No information was available on Manard's cause of death or why he was serving his time at an Arizona prison.

—

If you have any information about a crime, you may contact your local police department directly. But if you want or need to remain anonymous, you should contact the Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers Tips Hotline by calling 816-474-TIPS (8477), submitting the tip online or through the free mobile app at P3Tips.com . Depending on your tip, Crime Stoppers could offer you a cash reward.

Annual homicide details and data for the Kansas City area are available through the KSHB 41 News Homicide Tracker , which was launched in 2015. Read the KSHB 41 News Mug Shot Policy .