Recently unsealed search warrants say that a Wisconsin man accused of killing and dismembering a woman he met for a first date told a friend what he planned to do and even showed that friend the room in his basement where he planned to commit the crime.
The friend, identified as a confidential informant who had previously provided information to detectives, told police Maxwell Anderson showed him a room on March 5 “covered in plastic painter tarp” with a sanitation sink inside.
“The CI stated that the tarp was taped to the floor and the ceiling, covering the walls and the floor,” the search warrant says, according to WISN.
Anderson, 33, is believed to have murdered Sade Robinson, 19, on their first date before discarding her mutilated remains in Lake Michigan and throughout the Milwaukee area, as CrimeOnline reported.
Robinson was reported missing in early April after she failed to show up at work. Police found her car on fire, and then searchers began to find body parts.
Police took the 23-year-old Anderson into custody, saying he was. “person of interest,” and later charged him with irst degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and arson. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held on a $5 million bond.
Investigators believe he killed Robinson on April 1, on their first date.
According to the search warrant unsealed this week, the confidential information said that Anderson told him his intentions were “bringing Robinson to his residence, pulling a handgun on her, and bringing her down to the basement of th residence.”
“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,” the document said. “The CI stated that he then planned on disposing Robinson’s body throughout the city.”
According to the warrant, the CI also said he observed three saws in the basements and that the sanitation sink was in the area covered in the tarp.
The document says detectives met with the information 13 days after Robinson’s leg was found in Warnimount Park in Cudahy.
That information is what led police to search Anderson’s home. The warrant says that detectives recovered plumbing from the sink in the basement as well as a pipe from the launcry area, swabs and cushions from a leather couch, and debris from a sewer pipe under the basement’s concrete floor.
Anderson’s attorney, Anthony Cotton, scoffed at the information from the confidential information, saying such information “is often false and exaggerated.”
“While we have not been provided with the name of this individual, the information provided by him or her is completely untrue, and there is no physical evidence to support these baseless assertions,” Cotton said. “This is another example of someone choosing to spew misleading information on this case, which is unfortunate for all parties involved.”
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[Featured image: Maxwell Anderson/Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office via AP and Sade Robinson/Milwaukee Police Department]
