A Wisconsin jury deliberated for about 20 minutes before returning a guilty verdict for a man accused of killing a 19-year-old woman and distributing her body parts at several locations near Milwaukee.
Maxwell Anderson, son of a prominent insurance executive, was found guilty of first degree homicide, mutilating a corpse, arson, and hiding a corpse after the defense presented no witnesses at the end of his nine-day trial for death of Sade Robinson, WISN reported.
Robinson was reported missing in early April 2024 after she failed to show up at work, as CrimeOnline reported. Police found her car on fire, and then searchers began to find body parts. Police took Anderson into custody, saying he was. “person of interest,” and later charged himInvestigators believe he killed Robinson on April 1, on their first date.
A “confidential informant” later told police that Anderson had shown him the room, covered in plastic tarp, where he planned to kill and dismember Robinson.
“The CI stated that Anderson told them he then planned on shooting Robinson and then dismembering her body in the room that they were in,” a search warrant said. “The CI stated that he then planned on disposing Robinson’s body throughout the city.”
Sheena Scarbrough, Robinson’s mother, said after the verdict was read that it was a relief to have Anderson convicted but that “it’s never going to be the same.”
“There’s no such thing as justice,” Scarbrough said. “We don’t have her.”
Sentencing is set for August 15.
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[Featured image: Sade Carleena Robinson/Milwaukee Police Department]
