Accident – Death – Obituary News : : 1. Sade Robinson murder case
2. Sade Robinson dismembered body discovery

Stay updated on the latest headlines from across the US with our evening newsletter. In a tragic turn of events, 19-year-old Sade Robinson went missing after a date at a Milwaukee seafood restaurant. Surveillance footage showed her leaving with 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson, who was later arrested and charged with her murder. Robinson’s phone location data provided insights into her final moments before her remains were discovered in Warnimont Park. The investigation uncovered a gruesome sequence of events, leading to the identification of Robinson’s body parts and her burned car. Subscribe to our newsletter for more updates on this heartbreaking story. The remains found on the South Milwaukee shores have not yet been positively identified as belonging to Sade Robinson, according to police. More remains, including a torso and an arm, were discovered near an apartment complex. Authorities suspect these remains may be Robinson’s but have not confirmed it officially. An eyewitness reported seeing a white male setting fire to Robinson’s Honda Civic, which was later found burned out. Maxwell Anderson was arrested for intentionally killing and dismembering Robinson. He faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and arson. The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s office debunked rumors of Anderson’s release on social media.

The Shocking Murder of Sade Robinson in Milwaukee

Sade Robinson had been excited for her date. The 19-year-old had arranged to meet up with a man at a Milwaukee seafood restaurant on the evening of 1 April. Some time later that night she sent a Snap message to a friend from a bar nearby. It was the last time she was seen alive.

The next day, police were called after a passer-by discovered a severed leg on a beach in Warnimont Park. The limb was cut off just below the hip socket and “appeared to have been sawn off”. The toes on the feet were painted with pink nail polish.

Robinson – who had dreams of pursuing a career in criminal justice – was reported missing that evening by a concerned friend, who told police that she had not turned up for work and was not answering calls. The friend showed officers the Snap, placing Robinson at Dukes on Water sports bar, which was the last contact they had had with her.

Investigators discovered that Robinson had arranged to meet 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson at the Twisted Fisherman seafood restaurant at around 5pm. “I love seafood,” she had written to him in some of her last text messages.

Surveillance footage from the restaurant showed the pair sitting at the bar enjoying drinks for around an hour before leaving together. Anderson was later identified as having been an employee at the bar.

Another friend of Robinson’s told detectives that after learning of her disappearance on the news she had used a phone app to look up her location. The last recorded location placed Robinson’s phone in Warnimont Park in the early hours of 2 April.

Anderson was arrested on 4 April and charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson charges relating to Robinson’s death.

Timeline of Events

Data collected from phone location tracking apps provided by friends and Robinson’s mother gave a more detailed picture of the young woman’s movements on the evening of 1 April, according to a criminal complaint against Anderson, filed in Milwaukee County circuit court.

Surveillance footage from Twisted Fisherman had shown the pair meeting at around 5.20pm where they stayed until 6.24pm. Anderson had told a bartender that the meeting had been a “first date”.

According to police, an employee of the building where Robinson lived said she would frequently see and speak with the victim, who told her that she had been “excited” for the date.

From 6.29pm to 6.35pm Robinson had traveled to the area of Dukes on Water, where she appeared to have stayed for around two hours before heading to an address on South Oklahoma Avenue – later determined to be Anderson’s.

Location data appeared to show that Robinson had stayed at the address for almost three-and-a-half hours before the device was moved north to an area of Kern Park by part of the Milwaukee River at around 1am.

From there the phone traveled south to Warnimont Park, where it remained stationary and eventually ran out of battery at around 4.35am. A police report noted that the final location was in part of the park “that encompasses the location where the leg was discovered”.

Around three hours later, at 7.32am, members of the Milwaukee Fire Department responded to a vehicle fire in the west part of Milwaukee, near to Washington Park. Firefighters found that the vehicle – a 2020 Honda Civic – had sustained “extreme fire damage”.

A check of the registration revealed the car had belonged to Robinson.

A Gruesome Discovery

Police responded to reports of a human leg being found on the bluffs at Warnimont Park at around 5.30pm on 2 April. First responders were led by the citizen who called police to the leg.

Responding deputies located the right leg of what appeared to be a black female which was “severed just below the hip socket and appeared to have been sawn off,” according to the criminal complaint.

The complaint noted that the toes on the feet had pink nail polish, and the leg did not appear to be decomposing.

The individual who made the gruesome discovery told investigators that he and a friend were walking towards the beach when they saw the leg just north of the Warnimont pump house at the shoreline.

Milwaukee County Deputy Sheriff Leon Martin reported that the area where the leg was located contains a bluff that is approximately 100 feet tall. The leg was originally found about two-thirds of the way down the bluff, towards the water’s edge.

Video footage from near the pump house later showed a vehicle driving through the area at around 2.50am on 1 April. An employee also stated that the building’s service gate had been struck by the vehicle. Broken vehicle parts collected later identified the vehicle as a Honda Civic.

According to further footage from the pump house itself, at 3.02am, a human figure was seen descending the bluff to beach level. The figure appeared to make multiple attempts to walk between the beach and the service drive for the pump house and leaves around 90 minutes later.

An examination by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office and DNA testing by the Wisconsin State Crime Lab provided a preliminary conclusion that the leg belonged to Robinson.

Additional human remains were found on 5 April and 6 April, including a human foot that was located in the area where Robinson’s car was destroyed.

This tragic and shocking case has sent shockwaves through the Milwaukee community. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Sade Robinson during this difficult time.