Prosecutors in Wisconsin have filed charges against Maxwell Anderson in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Sade Robinson, who went missing after a first date.
Anderson faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and arson after a severed leg was discovered at a park in Cudahy, Wisconsin, the day after Robinson disappeared. She was reported missing when she failed to show up for work at a pizza restaurant where she was employed.
According to a criminal complaint, Sade Robinson told a worker at her apartment she was excited for a first date she had on April 1. The young college student had been looking forward to the date, even telling a worker in her building how excited she was, the complaint said. She texted Anderson she was “feeling seafood” and headed out to meet him at a seafood restaurant where he used to work, wearing ripped jeans and a white shirt, according to the complaint.
Prosecutors say the man she went on a date with, Maxwell Anderson, killed her and dismembered her body.
Robinson was last seen on April 1, reportedly on a first date with Anderson. Surveillance footage showed them sitting together, dining at the bar at Twisted Fisherman a seafood restaurant located on Canal Street in Milwaukee, where Anderson used to work, before heading to a bar and then to Anderson’s home.
In fact he told her that he had to pick up his W2 from the restaurant.
Footage shows the two sitting at the same table and eating at the restaurant around 5:30 p.m. and leaving just before 6:30 p.m.
According to TMJ4, The next day the investigation took a grim turn.
Not showing up for work the next day “wasn’t like her at all,” Romano, the manager on duty at the Pizza Shuttle the day Robinson disappeared, told WDJT-TV. “We kind of knew something was up; we had been calling her all day.”
One of Robinson’s friends called the police that night, saying she had not returned her calls or shown up for work, the criminal complaint said. Police visited Robinson’s apartment for a welfare check but did not find her there.
Robinson’s phone indicated she went to Anderson’s home after 9 p.m., the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
After midnight her phone began to ping at several locations across Milwaukee, before finally dying around 4:30 a.m. near the beach park where her severed leg was later discovered.
Tuesday, April 2nd
Robinson’s car, a torched 2020 Civic Honda was found in an alley on the North side of town at N. 29 Street and W. Lisbon Ave.
That same day, a severed leg with pink toenail polish was found at Warnimont Park in Cudahy, near Lake Michigan, 11 miles from Robinson’s burned car.
Police believe her car was set ablaze just before 7:30 a.m. Witnesses say they saw a man matching Anderson’s description throw a lighter into the driver’s door window before stepping onto a public transit bus about 40 minutes later.
CNN reports that, despite the fire damage, authorities were able to identify the outfit Robinson had been wearing the night of the date as well as part of an iPhone consistent with her phone in the burned car.
According to Fox 6, a detective spoke with a friend of Robinson who remembered Robinson had a Life360 app – which provides location-based services and allows users to share their locations with others, per the complaint. When checking the Life360 app, the friend saw Robinson’s phone “appeared to be in Warnimont Park” around 4:30 a.m. on April 2.
Phone records show Robinson’s phone traveling the night of April 1 from the seafood restaurant to a nearby sports bar, then to Anderson’s home and then to the park where the remains were discovered.
Robinson’s severed leg was found in/near the water at Warnimont Golf Course and Park around 5:30 p.m. Police said the leg appeared “sawn off” at the hip, according to the criminal complaint. An examination determined the leg belonged to a Black woman, approximately 5 feet tall. It was identified as Robinson’s using preliminary DNA evidence, the complaint states.
Detectives found video from a nearby high school that showed a vehicle in the area near the park just before 3 a.m. April 2. Cudahy Water Department officials also reported that a vehicle rammed a gate that lead to the shoreline of the park around the same time.
Footage reportedly shows a person making “multiple attempts to walk between the beach and the service drive of the pump house,” which the complaint said was near where the severed leg was recovered.
Surveillance footage from a neighboring home showed suspicious activity in Anderson’s backyard around the time of the incident.
Thursday, April 4th
According to CBS58, Just after 1 a.m. April 4, Anderson was pulled over near 38th and Lakefield Drive by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office in a traffic stop that led to his arrest. Anderson a bartender and Navy veteran, was taken into custody as a person of interest. In his car was the clothing he was wearing when he allegedly torched Robinson’s car.
Investigators checked Robinson’s phone records. The complaint states records showed “an association between (one of the numbers being texted) and Maxwell S. Anderson.” Anderson also provided that number during a booking process, which led to authorities identifying Anderson’s residence.
That same day, investigators executed a search warrant at Anderson’s home at 3161 S. 39th Street. According to the complaint, blood was found on bedding in one of the bedrooms and on the walls leading toward the basement. Several gasoline containers were also found.
Cellphone footage captured his arrest.
Friday, April 5th
Sheriff’s deputies found more body parts near 30th and Lisbon, just a block from where Robinson’s car was set on fire.
A human foot was found in a wooded area near train tracks plus “what appeared to be human flesh,” according to the police complaint.
Saturday, April 6th
Robinson’s family searched the area of 30th and Lisbon and found Robinson’s blanket with her picture on it.
Milwaukee Police came out to search the area again and found even more human remains.
On April 6, police found Robinson’s foot with pink nail polish matching her severed leg with the foot having matching pink nails at N. 31 and W. Galena.
Sunday, April 7th
Robinson’s family comes back to search the same area they did on April 6th and find human remains again.
A woman who claims she knows Anderson told WISN-TV that he has “sex dungeon” in the basement of his home.
“I got a little bit of a tour, and he was like, ‘Do you want to see the basement?’ I was like, ‘No, I’m OK!’ He’s like, ‘It’s creepy down there.’ I was like, ‘No, it’s OK!’” the young woman told reporters.
The woman was also suspicious about a hole in his yard that the local outlet confirmed was still on Anderson’s property this week.
Surveillance video from a home across the street revealed “on and off” movement in the backyard until around 12:45 a.m. April 2. Investigators also found blood on a comforter and gasoline containers in Anderson’s home.
In addition to her pizza joint job, Robinson had another job, was enrolled at Milwaukee Area Technical College studying criminal justice, and was preparing to join the Air Force upon graduating in May, according to her family.
The tragic case has left Robinson’s family and community in shock, with her mother remembering her as a generous and kind-hearted individual. Robinson’s coworkers expressed devastation, emphasizing her positive and caring nature.
In essence, Anderson lived on the Southside of Milwaukee a very peaceful part of the city. He went to the Northside of the city to scatter Sade’s remains, and believed he would never get caught. But cellphone location tracking software caught him redhanded.
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