A New Gruesome Discovery Found in Milwaukee Could be Connected to 19-year-old Sade Robinson
Updated as of 4/20/2024 at 4:40 p.m. ET
Someone alerted Milwaukee authorities Thursday morning upon the discovery of a human torso and arm near Lake Michigan. Police believe the remains washed ashore just under a mile of an apartment complex.
They also believe the body parts belong to 19-year-old Sade Robinson, the Black girl who was allegedly killed and butchered by 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson she had gone on a date with weeks ago, per NBC News.
This is the latest development in the investigation into what happened to Robinson and also in the effort to, frankly, put her body back together.
The day after she disappeared, authorities were alerted of a leg that appeared to be sawed off at the hip by the lake’s edge near Warnimont Park. Over the following days, police said more remains were discovered including a human foot. DNA testing matched the leg to Robinson.
Authorities launched a sonar detection boat to search the lake for anything else that may connect to Robinson Other evidence suggests foul play on Anderson’s part, including blood stains in his bedroom on his sheets and walls leading to the basement. Police also said they found several gasoline containers in his garage.
Arrest Made in Sade Robinson’s Case
What a Milwaukee family believed was just a long, bad dream had become reality last week. The random remains found in Lake Michigan were confirmed to belong to Robinson, a Black teen who went missing over two weeks ago.
Officials at the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said April 4, Anderson was arrested and has since been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson in connection to the disappearance turned killing of Robinson.
Anderson and Robinson were said to have met on April 1 for a date around 5 p.m. at Twisted Fisherman. Employees told investigators the two did indeed meet there. Then, the two left to patron Duke’s on Water and eventually ended up at Anderson’s home, according to Robinson’s phone location. Robinson’s phone died a little after 4:30 a.m.
Suddenly, the following day, a severed leg was found at Warnimont Park near Lake Michigan, police previously said.
Read more from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Video at the park showed a Honda Civic at the park until about 4:30 a.m. A “human figure” was seen walking down a bluff several times and back to the area of the car.
At 7:32 a.m. April 2, Robinson’s burned Honda Civic was found near West Lisbon Avenue and North 29th Street in Milwaukee, with what officials later determined to be Robinson’s clothes and other belongings inside. On April 6, police found a foot in the area of the burned car that appeared to be from the same body as the severed leg.
Using video and witness statements, police identified Anderson as the suspect who burned the vehicle. He boarded a bus that took him near his home and arrived there on foot at about 8:35 a.m.
The remains were tested and made a match to Robinson, the report says. The total of Robinson’s remains have yet to be recovered.
“Who the (expletive) would do something like this to my beautiful baby?” said Sheena Scarbrough, Robinson’s mother via the Journal Sentinel. “Her whole life was so ahead of her. She was so, so amazing. So beautiful, such a beautiful angel. Everywhere she went, people just admired my baby.”
Anderson was arrested April 4 but only now faces criminal charges in connection to the incident. He’s being held on a $5 million bond.
