A Milwaukee man, Maxwell Anderson, has been convicted of killing a 19-year-old college student while the two were on a date.
According to The Associated Press, a Milwaukee jury found the 34-year-old Anderson guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, dismembering a corpse, arson, and hiding a corpse. He was accused of killing Sade Carleena Robinson after the two were on a first date. Anderson dismembered the 19-year-old student and spread her remains around Milwaukee County and burned her vehicle to try to cover up his crime. The incident took place in April 2024.
During the trial, Assistant District Attorney Ian Vance-Curzan told the jury that the two met at a bar about a week before the crime was committed. The two were seen on surveillance footage spending time together on April 1. Based on text messages and tracking records, they were together in the late afternoon and early evening at two bars before the pair went to Anderson’s residence.
There was also a video showing that the car she drove there, left Anderson’s apartment early April 2, and was driven to a park along the shores of Lake Michigan. Once at the park, he dismembered her body, and later that morning, he burned her car behind an abandoned building. Then he took a bus back to his apartment.
However, Anderson’s attorney, Tony Cotton, told jurors that prosecutors
failed to show that his client never intended to kill Robinson. He also mentioned that no one heard a struggle in his apartment, and he did not hide his identity when he took the bus back home. Even after being accused of dismembering Robinson’s body, his clothes and shoes were clean with no apparent proof of his having committed the crime.“I want to express our deepest sympathy to the family and loved ones who knew Sade Robinson,” an official said. “We are hopeful that this verdict brings some amount of solace to them.”
Anderson, who will be sentenced Aug. 15, faces a mandatory life sentence in prison.
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