Man Accused Of Planning To Kill And Dismember Teen Weeks Before Their First Date

A Wisconsin man accused of killing and dismembering a 19-year-old college student after their first date had told a friend about his plot to kill her weeks before she was reported missing, according to a newly unsealed court document.
A confidential informant reportedly told Milwaukee police that 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson said he “intended to kill Sade Robinson” by pulling a handgun on her and leading her to his basement, according to a search warrant obtained by Fox affiliate WITI and other Milwaukee news outlets.
Anderson has been charged with offenses including murder and mutilating a corpse in connection with the death of Sade Robinson, whom he allegedly met up with on April 1. Anderson has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He also faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed in June by Robinson’s family.
Police said Robinson’s last Snapchat activity revealed that on the night of April 1, she went to a local bar where Anderson had previously worked, according to a complaint obtained by HuffPost.
A review of Robinson’s phone records indicated she and Anderson had messaged each other about meeting at the bar on April 1, and a bartender who was working that night confirmed that the two dined together, according to the complaint.
The bartender told police officers that Anderson referred to the meeting as a “first date.”
Since Robinson was reported missing by a friend on April 2, body parts identified as hers have been found scattered across the Milwaukee area.
A leg later determined to be Robinson’s was discovered on April 2 at Warnimont Park, on Lake Michigan. Her car was found in flames about nine miles away that same day. Detectives who searched the car found remnants of her phone along with the clothes she’d reportedly worn the night she met with Anderson, authorities said.
Anderson was taken into custody on April 4, and a search of his home allegedly found blood on a bed and on walls leading toward the basement, where police found multiple containers of gasoline.
However, DNA tests on the blood recovered at Anderson’s home did not match Robinson’s, prosecutors said. It’s unclear whose blood was found at Anderson’s home.
On April 15, the confidential informant told police that they had been at Anderson’s home in early March, according to the warrant obtained by WITI. They told police that Anderson showed them the basement, which contained a sink and where a plastic tarp was taped to the floor and ceiling, covering the walls.
The informant told police Anderson “planned on shooting Robinson and then dismember her body in the room” before “disposing Robinson’s body throughout the city,” WITI reported.
Anderson’s home was sold in May, for $195,000, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Anderson’s attorney, Anthony Cotton, addressed the new allegations in a statement to WISN-TV in Milwaukee, saying “information provided by people who refuse to identify themselves and wish to be labeled ‘confidential informants’ is often false and exaggerated.”
“While we have not been provided with the name of this individual, the information provided by him or her is completely untrue, and there is no physical evidence to support these baseless assertions,” the statement said. “This is another example of someone choosing to spew misleading information on this case, which is unfortunate for all parties involved.”
A final pretrial hearing is the case is set for Sept. 13.
Robinson had been expected to graduate from Milwaukee Area Technical College in May. Her family attended the commencement to accept her degree in criminal justice studies in her honor, according to WISN.