A Wisconsin sicko was discovered responsible of killing and dismembering a 19-year-old school co-ed on their first date in a grisly scene eerily much like a Netflix documentary he watched days earlier.
Maxwell Anderson, 34, sat stone-faced as Choose Laura Crivello learn the responsible verdicts within the April 2024 homicide of Sade Carleena Robinson after the jury mentioned for lower than an hour Friday afternoon.
Robinson was finding out felony justice at Milwaukee Space Technical School when she met Anderson for dinner on April 1, 2024.
Robinson, who was described as being excited for the date, went out to a restaurant and a bar with Anderson earlier than returning to his Milwaukee residence.
She was reported lacking on April 2 when she didn’t present up for her shift at a pizzeria. Police performed a welfare examine at Robinson’s residence on April 3, however discovered no hint of her.
Robinson’s sawed-off leg was discovered on the shores of Lake Michigan that very same day the police visited her residence.
Prosecutors used graphic and bloodied images from Anderson’s cellphone to show he was the teenager’s killer.
One deleted picture recovered by detectives captured Anderson holding Robinson’s chopped-off proper breast, described as “his trophy” by one juror.
“This is his trophy in a way,” juror Melissa Blascoe instructed the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Those pictures will be in my mind for quite some time.”
Together with the leg that matched Robinson’s DNA, authorities additionally discovered further physique components, together with a foot and human flesh scattered all through town.
Her proper breast is amongst different components of her physique that haven’t been recovered.
The jury was supplied with further proof after the listening to that Anderson and Robinson have been inside his residence the evening she was murdered when her killer turned on the Netflix animated sequence “Love, Death & Robots.”
Within the second season finale, a dismembered corpse is found on the seaside, much like Robinson’s physique.
“I was like, oh, … that’s disgusting because that could have been where he got some of his ideas or fantasies,” Blascoe instructed the outlet.
Police discovered a “sex dungeon” in Anderson’s residence after his arrest.
In his basement, the creep had “a sex sling, restraints and handcuffs,” a police supply instructed the Publish final April.
Different images on Anderson’s cellphone included footage of the school scholar inside his residence, described as graphic and disturbing.
“That was pretty damning evidence that shook everyone,” Blascoe mentioned. “I physically felt like I was gonna throw up at that point. I know a lot of people were shaking and crying.”
Among the images captured Anderson groping Robinson as she lay face down on his sofa.
Prosecutors mentioned Robinson was incapacitated at that time and couldn’t have resisted.
She mentioned the images have been a turning level within the trials as they bodily put Robinson inside the house of her soon-to-be killer.
After the brutal killing, Anderson drove Robinson’s 2020 Honda Civic round Milwaukee for a while earlier than parking it in North Milwaukee and lighting it on fireplace.
“He was just making circles around the city and probably just kind of panicking,” Blascoe mentioned.
It took the jury 45 minutes to achieve a responsible verdict, with the vast majority of the dialogue specializing in the technicalities of the regulation.
“Everyone agreed pretty early on in the morning that he was guilty,” juror Melissa Blascoe instructed the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The pack of 15 jurors debated on the kind of murder Anderson dedicated – intentional or reckless.
He was finally discovered responsible of first-degree intentional murder, mutilating a corpse, hiding a corpse and arson.
Robinson was remembered by her household, who attended the listening to Friday.
“She will forever be remembered as an angel,” mentioned Sheena Scarbrough, Robinson’s mom mentioned exterior the courthouse. “My baby solved her own case. That’s how I raised my kids. We don’t give up. We are fighters. I demanded justice. I stand tall, I stand affirmative. Sade will continue to walk with me daily and right beside me.”
Anderson is believed to have deliberate Robinson’s killing for months, creating an area lined in a plastic tarp.
“He intended to kill Sade Robinson,” a police supply recalled Anderson telling him, based on Fox 6 Milwaukee.
No motive for the killing was revealed through the trial.
Anderson is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 15.
He faces a compulsory life sentence, however Choose Laura Crivello may sentence him to further prolonged supervision.
With Publish wires
