A Wisconsin jury spent approximately 20 minutes deliberating before delivering a guilty verdict for a man accused of murdering a 19-year-old woman and dispersing her remains at various sites near Milwaukee.
Maxwell Anderson, the son of a well-known insurance executive, was convicted of first-degree homicide, mutilating a corpse, arson, and hiding a corpse. This followed the defense’s decision not to present any witnesses by the conclusion of his nine-day trial for the death of Sade Robinson, WISN reported.
Robinson was noted as missing in early April 2024 after she did not appear at work, as CrimeOnline reported. Her car was discovered ablaze, leading searchers to subsequently uncover body parts. Police detained Anderson, labeling him a “person of interest,” and eventually charged him. Investigators suspect he murdered Robinson on April 1 during 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.
