Sade Robinson was excited to be going on a first date with a man she met online and had been communicating with for a while – a man she thought was normal, but who turned out to be a sadistic psychopath. After having a fun-filled family get together on Easter Sunday, Sade was in high spirits. She had looked forward to their get together as her other family members did, but neither Sade nor her family could predict that that would be the last time they would ever see each other.
The next morning as Sade got ready for work, she video chatted with her mom Sheena Scarbrough as she often do, both sharing their plans for the day and catching up with each other. She had a date planned for that same evening after work, and she was a bit more meticulous about her dressing. After deciding on a ripped blue jeans, white shirt, white shoes and a black puffy coat to finish off her looks she bid her mom goodbye and walked out the door. As she got downstairs she saw the apartment building secretary and after a quick chit chat told her how excited she was to be going on a first date later that evening. She then left for work at around 9am.
At around 4:15pm Sade texted her date, 33 year old Maxwell Anderson querying where they would be meeting that evening and suggesting she could do 5pm. After a brief back and forth texting Maxwell suggested his former workplace – a restaurant called The Twisted Fisherman, and they both agreed. Maxwell later got to the restaurant at 5:09pm and Sade got there at 5:20pm. They meet and greeted each other then chit chat a bit before placing their order. They then eat and enjoyed their meals, and after dinner Maxwell suggested they finish their evening off at a sports bar called Dukes on Water, and at around 6:29pm they left the restaurant and arrived at the bar at 6:35pm.
There they had a few drinks and chatted some more seemingly enjoying each other’s company, and somehow they both ended up at Maxwell’s house at 9:24pm, entering through the back gate and not the front. Maxwell may have drugged Sade, or she went there willingly, but Sade went in, and she never came out!
No one but Maxwell knows what really happened inside that house that night between the hours of 9:24pm and 12:47am, but by the next morning Sade was nowhere to be found. She had not shown up for work – which was unlike her, and she could not be reached via phone. The family had had an app installed on their phones called Life360 which they used to keep track of each other’s location. And when they could not reach Sade they began to check her locations and was concerned about the locations she was at and the time she was at those locations. They reported her missing and gave the authorities all the relevant information they had, and then set out in search of Sade themselves.
Earlier that morning April 2nd at around 7:32am, authorities got a call from a woman saying she is looking at a car burning in the alley way behind her house, and when authorities got there they were able to use the registration sticker on the car to quickly find out whose car it was. And it was Sade’s. Within a few hours, authorities got another call from a man saying he was walking along a beach area in Warnimont Park, Cudahy where he stumbled upon a human right foot with pink toenails at around 5:29pm. Detectives raced to the scene and took the leg away for quick DNA sampling. The leg was later confirmed to be Sade’s.
This news was a game changer. Instead of looking for Sade alive, they realized they may actually be looking for Sade not only dead, but in pieces. The leg, according to the medical examiner, showed multiple cutting impressions around the amputation point, as well as sharp forced trauma to the exposed femur bone, which indicated that the leg was intentionally severed with a sharp instrument, including the bone being sawn halfway through.
When Sade’s mom got the news that the leg they had found belonged to Sade, she was devastated. A mother’s worst nightmare had come true. She was so hurt and traumatized by the news she could not continue with the search. But her family, friends and community members kept the search going in the hopes of finding all of Sade.
The unimaginable had happened! Maxwell had scattered Sade’s body parts in various locations throughout Milwaukee City – specifically in public parks, and within the next few weeks Sade’s left foot, her torso, an arm and some flesh were discovered in 3 locations, one even near a kids playground at 30th and Lisbon where her car had been burned.
After reviewing Sade’s phone data and some surveillance footages, authorities had enough to arrest Maxwell as a person of interest on April 4th, but they needed more to charge him. As they were able to gain access to more surveillance footages from Maxwell’s neighbor, the transit system, and a bodega – as well as securing a search warrant and searching Maxwell’s house, they finally had enough evidence to charge him. They found blood on his bedroom bedding and on the wall leading to his basement, which was later confirmed not to be Sade’s. However, based on other evidence they found Maxwell was charged on April 12th with first degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and arson. He has since pleaded not guilty and is currently being held at the Milwaukee County jail on a five million dollars bond which he would need to pay in full in order to be released, pending his trial.
Sade’s family and friends have not ceased searching since Sade had been missing, and they pledge to continue until all of Sade is found. They had found what they believed to be human body parts at 2 locations, but authorities have not confirmed if they were human remains, and if they were Sade’s. Authorities have since used boats to search in Lake Michigan where Sade’s leg, torso and arm was found, and they say they will continue to search for the rest of Sade.
A memorial was held in her honor on what would have been her 20th birthday May 10th, and we hope they will be able to find all of Sade so they can have a proper burial soon. Sade’s body parts have not been released to the family by authorities, and Sade’s dad Carlos Robinson said the family is not even allowed to see Sade’s body parts which adds to the devastation they are already experiencing.
Sade was a very ambitious and busy 19 year old young woman, working two full time jobs, while attending college full time pursuing an associate degree in Criminal Justice and was set to graduate in May of 2024. She loved life and she had big plans for her life. She had wanted to visit places like Jamaica and was able to do so this past January 2024. She planned on joining the US Air Force – following in the footsteps of other veterans in her family, such as her grandfather who was in the US Navy, and her uncle who was in the US Army. She was loved and adored by her family, friends, co-workers, and many other people with whom she crossed paths, and they all speak very highly of her care and compassion for others.
Maxwell Anderson on the other hand, is a sadistic psychopath! He did whatever it took to get Sade to trust him, even turning on his fake charm, like other sadistic psychopaths do to ensure their “prey” becomes their “catch”. He took a decent, kind-hearted, loving, ambitious, promising young woman, torture her in the sex dungeon authorities found in his basement, using either his hacksaw, circle saw, drill or a combination of them authorities also found in his basement. And we hope he will be severely punished for this most horrendous crime he committed.
Sade was a representation of what Maxwell couldn’t be, a bright light, and he wanted to put that out in the most demeaning way possible.
After returning from her solo trip to Jamaica, this is what Sade shared:
So encouraging, and positive, and real! Sharing the good but also sharing how difficult it can be while getting to the good.
The world has definitely lost a gem! Another gem!
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Scarbrough and Robinson families, as they navigate what will be one of their worst experiences in this lifetime. We hope every piece of Sade will be located, and soon, so her family can have a proper burial and find some form of peace.
May Sade’s precious soul rest in peace and may her family find the strength to get through this tragic tragedy, and in the end get the justice they desire and deserve.
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