Maxwell Anderson planned to kill, dismember Sade Robinson: informant
MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee man accused of killing and dismembering 19-year-old Sade Robinson planned to do so weeks before her death, according to a statement from a "confidential informant" noted in court filings FOX6 News obtained.
Maxwell Anderson, 33, is scheduled to go to trial later this year. He pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson of property other than a building in April.
Informant's statement
Court filings indicate police met with the information on April 15 – thirteen days after Robinson's leg was found at Warnimont Park in Cudahy, and three days after Anderson was charged in the case.
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The informant told police they were at Anderson's home on March 5, according to court filings. Anderson showed the informant his basement, the informant said, including a plastic tarp that covered a sanitation sink, ceiling, floor and walls.
According to the informant's statement in the court filings, Anderson told the informant he "intended to kill Sade Robinson" – using a gun to get her down into the basement. The informant said Anderson then said he "planned on shooting Robinson and then dismember her body in the room" before "disposing Robinson's body throughout the city."
Crime scene tape surrounds Maxwell Anderson's home as investigators conduct a follow-up search in a homicide investigation.
The information told police they saw three saws in the basement and believed those were the saws Anderson intended to use, per the court filings.
The court records obtained Wednesday also indicate another woman went on a date with Anderson in February. That woman said Anderson asked her back to his home and believed he drugged her drink.
FOX6 made multiple attempts to reach Anderson's attorney for comment Wednesday, but did not hear back by the deadline for this story.
Family responds
Sade Robinson's family members said the documents make them see the case in a new way.
"After the fact doesn't do me any justice, because it doesn't bring my daughter back," said Carlos Robinson, Sade's father. "Why would this guy feel comfortable to tell you his plans in the first place?
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"This fuels my rage knowing that somebody else could have stopped this, and they didn't."
To date, not all of Sade Robinson's body has been found. Her remains have been found as far as Waukegan, Illinois.
Additional remains "believed to be" Robinson's were found along the Lake Michigan shore in South Milwaukee on April 18. Searches in and around Milwaukee County have yielded no discoveries since then, and the discovery in Waukegan followed. The first body part found was a human leg, later determined to be Robinson's, near the lake in Cudahy. Additional remains turned up in three separate Milwaukee locations as well.
"You have to be a very demonic individual to do something like this," Robinson said.
Attorney Vernoa Swanigan, who represents Sade's mother, Sheena Scarbrough, said Scarbrough found out about the newly obtained court filings through news coverage.