Maxwell Anderson charged with killing, dismembering 19-year-old Milwaukee woman Sade Carleena Robinson

Ladybird · Apr 15, 2024

Maxwell Anderson charged with killing, dismembering 19-year-old Milwaukee woman Sade Carleena Robinson

One week after his arrest, Maxwell S. Anderson has been charged with killing and dismembering 19-year-old Sade Carleena Robinson.

The charges confirm what many had grown to suspect in the last week and a half — that human remains discovered in a Cudahy park April 2 belong to Robinson, who was reported missing the same day. The case received extensive publicity as additional human remains were found in Milwaukee in the days since.

date with each other, the criminal complaint said. The two ate dinner and went to a bar before going to Anderson's home on Milwaukee's south side.

Using surveillance footage, witness statements and phone tracking records, the complaint pieces together the movement of Anderson, Robinson, her phone and her car for about a 16-hour period beginning with their meeting over dinner.

Anderson was charged Friday with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson. In a court appearance Friday morning, his bail was set at $5 million.

At a joint press conference Friday morning with the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office and the Milwaukee Police Department, officials said a search for remains continues and an investigation into a motive remain active.

They declined comment on evidence found or taken from Anderson's home during a search, although the complaint said blood was found in bedding in Anderson's home and on walls leading to a basement.
Milwaukee County Sheriff Denita Ball said, at this point, there's no evidence there are other victims.

At Friday's court hearing, Assistant District Attorney Ian Vance-Curzan said much of Robinson's remains have yet to be located and Anderson appeared to go to "tremendous" lengths to cover up her death. He called the allegations "abhorrent."

"It's the highest level of violence imaginable," he said.

After the hearing, Robinson's mother, Sheena Scarbrough, reacted angrily, calling Anderson a "sick son of a (expletive)" and openly wished he would suffer.
"Who the (expletive) would do something like this to my beautiful baby?" she asked as family gathered closely around her. "She hurt nobody. She harmed nobody."

Robinson, who graduated from high school a semester early and was working at Pizza Shuttle in Milwaukee, was a month away from earning an associates degree in criminal justice at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Scarbrough said Robinson considered pursuing a career in the U.S. Air Force and has multiple family members with military service.

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