A judge has sentenced a man to life in prison after he was found guilty of murdering and dismembering a 19-year-old woman after a date in Wisconsin before her arm later washed up on the Waukegan Beach.
The Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office said Sade Robinson, 19, was murdered and dismembered following a date she had with Maxwell S. Anderson, 34, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Twisted Fisherman restaurant in Milwaukee.
She went missing shortly after the date, authorities said. A missing person report was made on April 2, 2024.
A criminal complaint filed by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office said Anderson intentionally killed Robinson, mutilated her remains, and set fire to her car in an attempt to obscure potential evidence of the killing.
The two were seen at the bar inside the restaurant eating and having drinks together before leaving just over an hour later.
The woman’s body parts were dumped in different areas.
A severed human leg was later discovered at Warnimont Park in Cudahy, Wisconsin, and a severed human foot was later located in a wooded area near 31st Street and Galena in Milwaukee.
Sheena Scarbrough, who is the mother of Robinson, said at the time that she was “devastated” and felt like her “heart is being cut out as she is constantly tortured with this accumulating news.”
Anderson was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson.
The Waukegan Police Department responded around 8 p.m. on May 11, 2024, to the Waukegan Municipal Beach, 201 East Sea Horse Drive.
A person walking along the beach saw what they believed to be a human arm on the ground.
Officers arrived and found the arm next to a fallen tree trunk at the beach.
They confirmed the arm belonged to a human and the right arm was “mostly intact” from the shoulder down, the Lake County Coroner’s Office said.
The arm was transported to the coroner’s office where a forensic pathologist conducted an exam.
A forensic anthropologist was requested to perform a further study. A police crime lab collected DNA specimens from the arm for analysis, which later resulted in the positive identification that it belonged to Robinson.
Court records show Anderson was convicted by a jury in June of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson of property other than a building.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Laura Crivello on Friday sentenced Anderson, who claims he is innocent, to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the homicide charge.
He was additionally sentenced to the maximum sentence for the other two counts.