327. The Last First Date - The Murder of Sade Robinson

Hank joined BJ's Wholesale Club the day he became a father of 30. I coach football. Now, Coach Hank saves up to 25% off grocery store prices, 30 pounds of pasta, 3 cases of protein bars, 75 sports drinks. And that's just pre-game. He knows teamwork. And BJ's knows savings. This is your home, Coach. Home of the Save. Join for just $20 at bjs.com/mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for 6 months. Open soon. Limited time offer. New members only. BJ's. Home of the Save. I see you. Avatar Fire and Ash is now streaming on Disney+. It's the film critics are calling the best Avatar yet. Go, go, go, go! A true epic and completely jaw-dropping. This is the only pure thing in this world. Return to Pandora on Disney+. It will be an adventure for the whole family. And watch the Oscar-winning phenomenon at home. This is sick! Avatar Fire and Ash, now streaming on Disney+. Rated PG-13. You're listening to an Ono Media podcast. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. This is Murder With My Husband. I'm Peyton Morland. And I'm Garrett Morland. And he's the husband. And I'm the husband. Happy Monday. Happy Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Thank you for being here. Thank you for watching. Thank you for listening. Another week. Another episode. Honestly, we've just been working. Literally, that's it. We've been working. We've been grinding. And. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We've been working. We've been grinding. And. We got back. Oh! Vegas. We got back from Vegas last night. Want to tell them about the basketball game? Yeah. So, two days ago, Garrett surprised me with WNBA tickets to go see my favorite team, the Dallas Wings in Vegas against the Aces. For those of you that don't know, I don't think I've talked about it on here, maybe only into the dark, but a couple of years ago, I discovered. I didn't discover. I fell down the women's basketball rabbit hole and became a major fan. No, I've never played basketball. No, I've never really watched basketball. But for some reason, yeah, now I'm a real big WNBA fan. And so Garrett surprised me with tickets. It was so good. The seats were so good. Like, it just was such a fun experience. We just went down for less than 24 hours, ate good food, watched the girls. Flew back. Flew back. And now we're here recording. And just. We were in the shower last night, and I was like, "Remember when we just weren't running around with our heads cut off all the time?" I know. And now all we do is run around with our heads cut off. It's crazy. But we did get to go see the WNBA. It was fun. It was a good game. Yeah. It was fun. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of all I got for my 10 seconds. Well, Garrett was watching the soccer game a little bit. Well, yes. I haven't talked much about it, but big World Cup fan. Huge World Cup fan. Love the World Cup. Always look forward to it. I just love it. I just think. I don't know. For those who have never been to the World Cup, you need to try to get into it because it is. It's amazing. It's amazing. I mean, it's the most watched event ever. So you need to watch it. USA moved on to the round of 32. It's now basically single elimination. They lose. They're out. So we'll see what happens. But I mean, even if the USA doesn't win their next game, the games are still amazing. But go USA. Let's see what happens. If I were to predict who's going to win this year, not being biased because I want the USA to win. I would say France. France? Yeah. I did not know that they would be good footballers. Yeah. I would say France. Argentina would be pretty cool too. Does the USA have a chance? Yes. Small chance? Yes. But you never know. You never know. You never know. That's my 10 seconds. Love the World Cup. Excited. Next game's going to be amazing. It's July. Next game's July 1st. Right? Mm-hmm. That is on Wednesday. It's a Wednesday. Yeah. Party here. If you want to come over. Come join. On that note, let's hop into today's episode. Our sources for this episode are cnn.com, wisn.com, abc17news.com, cnn.com, abc17news.com, dailymail.co.uk, vicksburgnews.com, thecinemaholic, people.com, GoFundMe, ShadesVoiceFoundation.com, wpr.org, capital B News.org, CBS News, USA Herald, Find a Grave, fox6now.com, msn.com, and whbl.com. I'm going to go ahead and close this out. Thank you. Sheena and Sheena thought her daughter was actually in an even better mood than usual but there was nothing that like stood out as to why and then around 9 a.m that morning she left her apartment for work she got to the pizza shuttle at 9 15 for her shift where she stayed until her scheduled end time of 5 p.m so this was basically the last day that she's having contact with people in her life no one noticed anything unusual about her that day and it wasn't until the following afternoon so April 2nd that her co-workers picked up on that something was wrong because again Sade hadn't shown up for work her co-workers had tried calling her there was no answer they actually tried a few more times throughout the day like as her shift went on but her boss knew this wasn't like Sade and felt something was seriously wrong so her fellow employees and her boss at the pizza place end up calling the police because she's not answering and she missed her shift now meanwhile as they are calling the police to basically ask for welfare check about three miles away from the pizza shuttle where she hasn't shown up police were dealing with another pressing incident a woman had heard a massive car crash and a giant bang and when she went outside to investigate she saw flames emerging from a car and then when police arrived a few minutes later they found a 2020 Honda Civic with extreme fire damage after the flames were extinguished they obviously start investigating and thankfully the first thing they notice is there was a fire in the car and they found a fire in the car and they found a fire in the car and there was no one inside this vehicle but they did pick up on the smell of petroleum in the interior passenger side of the car which told them whatever it happened they believe this fire was probably set intentionally like in public midday basically speaking of fires we're we live in Utah there is a million fires right now and it's burning I go outside and I just I can't even go outside it's scary it's 100 degrees there's smoke everywhere it's horrible anyway sorry keep going luckily I don't think anyone like any uh no or anything oh no homes have really yeah the homes in like cottonwood okay yeah yeah up in there there's like two sets of fires died from it but but things are being destroyed yeah that's just so scary that's crazy so they're like okay this is important someone has set this car on fire and unfortunately with damage this bad they weren't really able to pull any fingerprints or DNA directly from the vehicle but they did notice a few things inside there was a purse a jacket a pair of shoes and a pair of inside out jeans with underwear like still in the jeans if that makes sense no it makes sense I just did not need that visual sorry it's okay it's important to the case okay with um the purse still there detectives are like okay so someone didn't like break into this car rob it and then set it on fire so they feel like that's not really a motive but they ran the plates obviously of the car for a name and they get it back quickly it is 19 year old shot a robinson's car now remember they have just been asked to do a welfare check on 19 year old shot a at the same time but there was something even more unsettling about the car and that was the driver's seat it pushed pretty far back but as police quickly realized shot a wasn't a tall girl she was only five foot one there was no way that she had drove this vehicle with the seat in this position she wouldn't have even been able to reach the pedals so the officers actually tracked down a vehicle at a dealership that was the same make and model and they had one of their taller male detectives take a seat inside this is how they even proved their theory that someone much taller probably around six feet had probably driven the car before it was set on fire but the question is who and where was shot a because her or her body were not in her car well it's a pretty busy day for police in the milwaukee area because there is something else happening 11 miles from where her car was discovered something else surfaced a few hours after the car was found that same day april 2nd a guy was out walking with his friend along the shoreline of lake michigan in an area called warnemont park and he called the police saying hey i'm walking through this park and i found something disturbing they were walking past this rocky wooded area when they believe that they spotted a human leg okay it's not okay it's not sticking out a big deal it's not sticking out of the ground it's like a human leg attached to nothing just on the ground a severed human leg on the ground i don't know i feel like it would take me a second to believe i think so too like if i saw a leg i wouldn't be like that's a human leg i'd be like that's a um like costume it's a costume mannequin like something there's no way i would be like that's a real human leg and the thing is oh my gosh even when people find whole bodies they do the same thing like that's got to be a mannequin it's got to be fake there's just no way i don't know what's worse finding an entire body or a leg because a leg is so scary like a body scary but a leg is like whoa like where's the body yeah that's so eerie and like just off you know like it's just it's just uncomfortable yeah so authorities obviously get down okay so they have responded to this welfare check this car on fire and now they get a there is a leg in the park so they come down they get a closer look now this leg appears to have been sewn off around the hip so it is like a full-blown leg the toes still have bright pink toenail polish on them which again is just so that detail alone is so unsettling because you're thinking of just this human leg but then there's no polish it's making it a real person like a painted or painted their toes and now their leg is like in this park it's just devastating now they also quickly learned that the leg belongs to a black woman who was approximately five feet tall based on like the length of the leg here's the issue though dang that's just that's crazy what here's the issue with all of this the milwaukee county sheriff's department was the one who responded to the call about the leg but the milwaukee police department is the one who responded to the car so they're not necessarily putting two and two together because it's two completely different departments responding to these two incidents okay that's a problem and it's i mean it's not going to take long but it's just not an immediate oh we found her car this is now the leg so we only as listeners know that so at first the sheriff's department are like we just have a homicide on our hands like there is a leg here where is the body it takes them a few hours to learn that there was also a missing 19 year old woman shot a robinson whose car was also found now upside is i mean that's pretty fast yes like you're finding things quickly at this point there was no confirmation the leg belonged to shot a obviously they still needed to send it out for a date but they still needed to send it out for a dna testing first they have a hunch they're working on a hunch so the next move was speaking with potential witnesses like shot a's mother sheena and her sister adriana to see hey you're obviously involved in her life do you know where she was in the hours before she disappeared this could potentially be her leg all right you guys i am jumping into today's sponsor and it is skims if you've watched any of our videos you know that she's a very important person and she's a very important person to us so if you've watched any of our episodes you know how much i love skims and actually earlier today garrett and i were working at the bagel shop and what did i wear my skims maternity onesie i also wore my skims undies oh girl you heard it here first garrett wore his skims undies to the bagel shop case anyone's ever picturing what's underneath my pants skims undies and honestly it's the quality it's the quality it's the feeling like i still have yet to find another brand that i feel super confident in that when i get it i'm going to absolutely love the piece i have and so that's why i keep returning to skims and that's why i recommend skims to all of you guys because i can promise you the quality of what you're getting is it's really good i'm gonna be honest i turned garrett onto skims they're getting a store actually in salt lake oh yeah so everyone's been talking about it because that's where we are shop skims cotton and all of my favorite pieces at skims.com and after you place your order be sure to let them know that you're getting a skim we sent you. Select podcast in the survey and be sure to select our show in the drop down menu that follows. Again, this is after you've placed your order, after you have checked out and paid. There's just a little survey. Please, please let them know. Murder With My Husband sent you. It's a great way to support the show. I love skims and I know you will too. Hey guys, this episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. You've heard us talk about BetterHelp for a long time. You know Garrett and I love therapy. We've gone to therapy together. We've gone to therapy alone. My biggest piece of advice is something doesn't have to be broken. Something doesn't have to be wrong before therapy is beneficial for you. And that's why we love BetterHelp. You can check them out yourself at betterhelp.com. There are so many reviews. The reviews are updated every day with hundreds of people telling you about their experience with BetterHelp. If you just do betterhelp.com slash reviews, actually, you can like go directly to the reviews. More than 6 million people have used BetterHelp globally. The consistent feedback from people who have used BetterHelp globally is amazing. If you're interested in feedback from real users makes it easy to see why so many people continue to choose BetterHelp. If you're curious, go check it out. Again, like Payne said, something doesn't have to be wrong. Go check out therapy. It's just nice to talk to somebody sometimes. See the reviews, see what stands out, and see if BetterHelp is right for you. Visit betterhelp.com slash husband. That's betterhelp.com slash husband. Now the following day, April 3rd, officers visited Sheena's house. This is the mother's house. And when they spoke to her family, they claimed Sade didn't mention where she was going after work on the first. This is when she was last seen, was at work. But they did have access to something that might help. Sade was using an app on her phone, Life 360, which actually turns out to be more useful than the Find My app because it does keep more data. For example, when you look at Find My Friends, you can see where they are right now, but it doesn't tell you where they were at 10 p.m. yesterday. Life 360 does. Like, you can have a history of location. Oh, I did not know that. Okay. And Sade had been sharing her location with her family. It showed that on the night of the first, Sade went to a place called the Twisted Fisherman. So this is after work when she was last seen. She goes to this Twisted Fisherman. It's a seafood restaurant. And then after this, she went to a spot called Duke's on Water before she ended up, in a residential area near 39th and Oklahoma around 9.30 p.m. And then three hours later, after going to this residential area around 12.45 a.m., it's now April 2nd, her phone left the house in the residential area and eventually ended up in the park where the lake was found. And that is where Sade's phone eventually died at 4.35 a.m. that morning. So, obviously, police are looking at this and they're like, this feels like a potential date night, right? Like, she goes to a restaurant, a bar. Yeah, but a missing leg is insane. And a phone. Like, how are we just missing a leg? So, at this point, because police are like, hey, this is tied to the leg, they actually ask the family, do you know if she frequents this, like, specific park, the Warnemont Park? Her family's like, no, we have no idea. No idea why her phone would leave the house at 12.45 a.m. and go to this park and then eventually die at the park at 4.35 a.m. Now, when detectives hear this, their hearts obviously sink because by now they're like, the leg was found here and we have an even stronger feeling it belongs to Sade. So, now equipped with her final location information, officers went over to the Twisted Fisherman. They're like, it's time to track down Sade. They're like, it's time to track down security footage of her whereabouts that no one has known about. And sure enough, when they pull up the tapes from the night of the 1st, there was Sade on the tapes, but she wasn't alone. Just like police had suspected, she was sitting at the bar with a white male. It's interesting. I mean, it happens a lot. Like, for example, it just happened to, it happens to, I'm just using this. This is an example, like Oliver Tree. It's weird when people die, but then they have something you can watch or listen to. Like, for example, she was killed, but then you go back and look at these videotapes. That no one's seen. No one knew. She was just alive. Yeah. And then now they're dead. I know that concept can seem easy, but it's kind of a weird if you start thinking about it. Like, they were alive, now they're dead. Like, they're gone. They're just not there anymore. And I think when it's an event that's affecting you personally, because you have some sort of tie or relationship to the person, it's even more hard to get, to like wrap your head around. Death is just such a complex thing. Yes. Yeah. So they see her with this white man and they notice he's actually talking to the bartender quite a bit, like even more than Sade. But despite that, it does appear that they are on a date. And then the two left the bar around 6.30 p.m., headed presumably for the second location that Sade was at. Sade's phone had showed her at Dukes on Water. Now, sometime during the course of the investigation, police also got access to the text messages sent to and from Sade's phone. And through her messages, they learned more about this mysterious date that no one knew about. The two, these, you know, her and this man had exchanged texts between 4.15 p.m. This was before Sade left work at the pizza shuttle that day. And they kept texting up until 5.18 p.m., so about an hour. And during this hour exchange, the man asked, quote, Are you hungry? I need to stop at Twisted Fisherman to pick up my W-2 from last year and we could eat there first. Which might explain why he was so chatty with the bartender in the footage, because apparently he'd worked there in the past. Now, after Sade responded, he said, I'm hungry. I need to stop at Twisted Fisherman to pick up my W-2 from last year and we Okay. And yes, are we eating at the Brat House or the other place? And he says, let's eat at Twisted. I'm feeling seafood. She replies, yes, I love seafood. And obviously it doesn't take long for police to figure out who this guy is. They have his number. They know that he used to work here. The man that she was texting was 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson. Now, Sade had actually just met Maxwell a few weeks ago. And he said, I'm hungry. I need to stop at Twisted Fisherman to pick up my two days before that date. Sade had walked into a bar looking for a new job and she met one of the bartenders, six foot one Maxwell. They chatted for a while. He ended up asking for her number. He walked her to her car. Maxwell had worked in the bar and restaurant industry for some time now. He had bought his own house on the south side of Milwaukee. And he had actually been in the Navy for a bit, which considering Sade's aspirations to eventually join the Air Force, this could have been something they connected about. But what she likely didn't know was that, yes, Maxwell had been in the Navy, but he had also been discharged for reasons unknown. And he had a criminal record that included a DWI, disorderly conduct and domestic abuse. Apparently, he even had a documented history of violence towards members of his own family. And there was also an incident, a few years back in 2019, when he had assaulted a stranger who had tried to intervene during an argument Maxwell was having with his then girlfriend. So he's arguing in public with his girlfriend. Someone steps in. He gets arrested for battery, ends up pleading guilty, gets a lesser charge and sentence. I feel like it would be kind of interesting if dating apps did background checks. Yeah. But here's the thing. She met him in person at a bar. No, for sure. And I mean, and some people too, like wouldn't care about certain things on someone's record, but it could be like a filter. Be like, do you care about this person's background? Yes. Yes. No. That's actually kind of smart. All right. Any dating apps listening to me and you do this? I want 3%. Here's the thing. It is like more common practice now for people to try to run background checks or do a little bit of research into who they're going to be going on a date with. But a lot of times when you meet someone in person, you get the vibe, you get the energy. He's a bartender. She probably has no reason to think that he has this decorated past of like kind of some rough physical altercations. And so she has probably no idea about this when she agrees to go out on a date with him after meeting him. And because of that, Sade told some friends she was excited about this date. It was probably why she was a little happy when she talked to her mom on FaceTime earlier that day. But unfortunately, as you have probably predicted, the date was the start to a terrible nightmare because Maxwell was the farthest thing from a Prince Charming. So now that we've got Maxwell and his history out of the way, I've introduced you to him. Let's go back to the date on April 1st and kind of just follow that trail. Now, after Sade and Maxwell left the Twisted Palace, Sade and Maxwell left the Twisted Palace. Sade and Maxwell left the Twisted Palace. Sade and Maxwell left the Twisted water this is like a bar restaurant police also stopped by that location they get the security footage which shows again Maxwell and Sade playing beer pong together against another couple now Sade appears to be smiling uh she's definitely like out of her shell they're kind of flirting a bit she's loosening up it is what it appears to be in this footage at one point Maxwell even puts his arm around her but that was the only time they like had a physical encounter that was captured on the security footage now finally the two of them wrap things up around 9 p.m they leave the bar and in that footage it's not like Sade appears to be disoriented or drunk obviously police are looking to see is it possible she was you know administered a date rape drug she appears to be okay she was also the one who drove so the two of them get into her car as we know it's going to end up on fire later but they head to a third location according to her phone around 9 30 p.m per her life 360 app it was the residential area near 39th and Oklahoma which because police have Maxwell's name they also have now put two and two together that this is also where he lives so it's safe to assume that they leave the second bar and they end up going back together to Maxwell's home and that is where Sade's phone stayed for the next three hours and then around 12 45 a.m her car was spotted on surveillance cameras leaving his house but also like her phone it doesn't go back to her apartment it actually drives right past her building without slowing down and continues driving around the city for the next two hours almost aimlessly police know this because there are several cameras throughout downtown Milwaukee that spot her car the windows are kind of fogged up it's dark so it's not like they can really tell who is driving my guess is that he was trying to find somewhere to dump the body I mean obviously right yeah finally around 2 53 a.m this was after driving around for two hours her car was seen parking along the Lake Michigan shoreline near Warnemont Park and let me just say the security footage in this case does a lot of the late work for detectives they really are kind of able to track this entire crime through security footage I love this I love when it's 2024 it just makes things so much easier yeah we know we can see the car we can see everything we know exactly what's going on when it happened love it and I would be like well we're in a city there's tons of cameras but nowadays there's lots of cameras in neighborhoods too yeah there's cameras it's getting even harder anywhere unless you're out in the middle of the country someone steps an inch on my blade of grass notified I see you you have like put it back you're like the Incredibles house it's like alarms start I have those like you know those laser lines everywhere yeah don't even get close hey yeah off topic they just put laser lines somewhere I just read on a highway and the lasers light up when a animal is crossing so and it goes along the highway so cars know that there's an animal crossing somewhere so they slow down so they can't see the animal but the animal's movement lights up the lasers oh I see we're saying that's cool yeah so it's like it could be behind you it could be in front of you but either way that's really smart it's so drivers can be like there's an animal crossing somewhere I need to slow down yeah isn't that kind of that's brilliant speaking of lasers anyways so they are obviously tracking this through security footage and the next camera comes from a nearby building it shows what happens next this next part of the case okay is on camera someone gets out of shot A's car and they start dragging something from the car down to the lake okay on camera this someone appears to be a six foot tall man obviously matching the physical stature of Maxwell Anderson I mean open and shut right so why I mean it's not like you can see his face but if you know one plus one equals two so finally he disappears off camera when he reached a path down to the beach so he obviously ends up going off camera but that security footage was more than enough to secure an arrest warrant for police I mean look at all they have so that day April 4th police pulled the 33 year old Maxwell over while he was driving and they placed him under arrest now do you think this next day when he's driving and then all of a sudden like the next day police lights go on behind him do you think he it clocks for sure 100 like do you think immediately he's like they've somehow figured out and like this fast they've tracked me down I think so I think anytime I mean I'm gonna be honest I didn't do anything wrong but the other day I didn't tell you this I forgot I was driving and there was two Sheriff uh Suburbans behind me and you're like great what and they were following me they followed me all the way through our neighborhood like I was coming up in my house I'm a great wait I saw those you saw them yes yes I know exactly what scared me for zero reason but scared me I was like I'm done I'm done getting arrested I'm going to jail what have I done I have no idea but I was like please don't follow me they didn't follow me I didn't do anything wrong but still you just yeah 100 he was like gosh and do you think it's like mind-blowing to him or do you like do you think he's like how I think it's like I think no I think they're like I got caught or it's like how can I get out of this like what can I do because for reference like when Brian Kohlberger got pulled over two times on his way driving home it had been some time since the murders and so I feel like it would be more reasonable for him to be like they figured it out by now and now they're pulling me over which was not the case those were just ended up somehow being too random but this one is so fast I don't know if he's like I just did this and somehow they're pulling me over and bringing me into the station so they place him under arrest and he is later charged with arson first degree intentional homicide and mutilation of a corpse so right away they hit him with all three over it is over he asks for a lawyer immediately he refuses to cooperate but officers were already working on it now that he's in custody to try and collect evidence again this crime just happened though when they finally do get in his house it's not what they expected they imagined they would walk into a bloody crime scene they have a leg it has been severed they were like this has to be some type of botched cleanup job but it wasn't the case inside the home there were no signs of distress no clear indication of foul play no like half cleaned up job there were a lot of knives in the house but detectives felt none of them would have even been sharp enough or equipped to dismember a body assuming the leg does belong to a shot a and there's no signs of blood now at one point it was rumored that they did find some blood on a wall in Maxwell's home but it was later tested and it came back saying it wasn't a match for shot Ace so it was actually blood from a dog which still oh like I don't understand I don't understand oh my gosh we don't have a story on that but regardless none of this is great because they were hoping they were going to get into an apartment they wouldn't even need to talk to him because they would just find like a a handful of evidence but that wasn't the case they're starting to second-guess themselves after they don't find a shred of evidence that shotty was killed in this house because they believed this was their crime scene now meanwhile shotty's friends and family felt the police just weren't doing enough to try and find the rest of shotty's body which kind of makes sense because it they feel like it's all in one place like they don't feel like it's been scattered so they kept searching for themselves and little by little more chilling evidence begins to surface on April 5th and 6 less than a mile from where shotty's car was found they found a human foot on April 7th more remains were discovered just a few blocks away also in the center of the city and around that same time shotty more remains like in a different area it was a few blocks away but yes like it just remains scattered all over well and also you know when I'm thinking about the foot was found it's obviously from her other leg because her foot was attached to gosh and I don't know why there's something about the fact that this severing didn't happen in like a uniform no I think it did I think he just dumped it in different areas yeah but one's a leg and one's a with like one's a leg with a foot attached oh and one's just a foot you're not even cutting in the same like I don't know that just feels so scat like I don't know dude yeah and then also he just drug this out and just scattered them randomly around like around the same area basically same so finally they also find that one of her friends Kiki was out searching and they found a blanket with shotty's face on it it was one of the blankets that she used to own so finally on April 12th the Milwaukee County Sheriff made a public announcement the results from this severed leg that was initially found were in, and they confirmed to belong to Sade Robinson. Three days later, on April 15th, a bunch of people stood outside of Maxwell Anderson's home, holding posters, balloons, photos of Sade. I mean, there's a clear suspect, obviously. The case is getting so much attention. A lot of people were driving by Maxwell's house to see where this gruesome crime had supposedly taken place. Instead, Sade's loved ones wanted to give them something else to gawk at. So that's why they set up this entire thing for Sade outside of the house. They called it a pinkout. It was based on her favorite color. And I just, yeah, after this, Maxwell's front lawn becomes a memorial for the life he had taken. So people just begin, yeah, memorializing her at this place. So when people are driving by, it's to remember her. Or so it seemed. The police and prosecutors were still hoping to gather more evidence that would implicate Maxwell in the crime. Yeah. And luckily, just a short while after Maxwell was arrested, someone came forward. This was someone who knew him well and was horrified when she saw his name on the news as a suspect in a murder case. Her name was Chloe Wright. Apparently, she had dated Maxwell for a little over a year. Wait, she was a murder suspect? No, she was his ex-girlfriend. Oh, gosh. Okay, sorry. I heard that wrong. So she sees the news about Sade. She sees that Maxwell has been arrested. His primary, suspect in this murder. She reaches out to police. She tells them, Maxwell never got physically violent with her, but he did get very verbally and emotionally abusive, which was just one step short. She told them he made comments about her weight and looks. She's basically like, listen, I want to tell you just about who this guy is, how crappy of a person he is, basically. He never physically hurt me, but he's a bad person. He just is not a good person. So she tells them, this hoping it would just kind of push the case along. She told them that back when they were still together, Maxwell used to talk about this secret beach that he loved. He told her he wanted to take her camping there in the spring when the weather got warmer, that it was his tiny sliver of paradise that hardly anyone else knew about. And eventually he did take her there. She drove them and he gave her step-by-step directions. But Chloe remembered the place he took her that was his favorite place. No way. No way. There's no way. The beach where the body parts were found. Yeah. She's like, yeah, so this is the worst part of all of this. That's his favorite beach where he found her body. So now police were thinking, hey, what if the crime actually took place there? What if he had done something to Sade at his apartment, like knocked her out? I don't know, something took her to the secret beach and then committed the crime there. Well, as the days pass, the more. More likely this scenario actually becomes. Because on April 18th, a person walking along the beach near the park spots a torso and an arm that is on the shoreline, which are later tested again to confirm that it's her. And on May 11th, another arm washes up 50 miles away. So. Oh my. I coach football. Now Coach Hank saves up to 25% off grocery store prices, 30 pounds of pasta, three cases of protein bars, 75 sports drinks. And that's just pregame. He knows teamwork and BJ's knows savings. Home of the Save. Join for just $20 at bjs.com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months. Open soon. Limited time offer, new members only. BJ's, home of the save. This message is sponsored by Greenlight. You don't know, Greenlight is a debit card and app for families, but it's more than a money tool. It is a safety net for teaching kids about money while also helping protect them before bad habits, bad actors, or real world risks take hold. Teaching your kids about money isn't just smart parenting, it's protection. Cash gives you no visibility and a traditional bank account usually tells you what happened after the fact, but Greenlight lets you stay involved with real-time transaction notifications, spending controls by category, and an easy way to send money quickly while teaching better financial habits. Honestly, Greenlight's amazing. My family's used it for my little siblings. I have tons of friends who've used it. Teaching your children the importance of money is very important, especially in the world that we live in these days. Being financially responsible is very important. And again, teacher, kids, the importance of money. Greenlight is perfect for that. And it's amazing. Every day they're handling money without guidance is a missed opportunity. Start your risk-free Greenlight trial today at greenlight.com slash husband. Don't wait to teach your kids real world money skills. That's greenlight.com slash husband to get started. Greenlight.com slash husband. Meanwhile, other digital evidence has been uncovered tying Maxwell to the crime. By this point, the police had also discovered a video of Maxwell walking away from Sade's burning car just moments after it burst into flames. And in the video, you can even hear a woman screaming and pointing at him, being like, he did that, like that one. And while the man was captured from a distance, his silhouette and gait matched that scene on the other footage they've gathered. They're like, we're pretty sure this is Maxwell. Now, on this tape, he's wearing a backpack and a gray jacket, and they actually find, on a different tape, wearing the same outfit. The jacket that he's seen wearing was later found in a neighbor's trash can, but the backpack and the rest of the clothes he was seen in the footage was never recovered. However, the jacket told enough. It was tested. It had Sade's DNA on the inside of the hood and on the zipper. This isn't a total smoking gun. We know she was at his house hanging out with him. But you know what was a smoking gun? The photos they found on his cell phone. He took photos of the body? He had tried to delete them. Nothing ever goes away. He clearly wasn't successful. Nothing ever goes away, especially when police can contact a company. Not these days. Turns out, Maxwell had taken a photo of Sade inside his house, unconscious. She's face down, her arm over her head. He's, I'll just say, groping her in the photo. Now, we don't know whether she's alive or dead at this point. Like, obviously, this is a mystery, but he's documenting a photo of him with an unconscious body. She's dead. Oh, yeah, she's not dead yet. Well, we don't know. Just disrespecting it. Yeah. Like, he has absolutely zero remorse. There's no, something's wrong. Something is very, he is not okay. But there was still one giant question mark hanging over this case. Was this random? Like, do you really go on a first date and murder someone? Or had Maxwell Anderson planned this? Well, according to a confidential informant who spoke to the police, Maxwell had actually told him about his plans to kill a woman he had recently met. This is before he got arrested. He had told a friend that he wanted to kill a girl. Maxwell even showed the informant a room in his basement. He's like, this is where I'm going to do it. Apparently, the room was, quote, covered in plastic painter tarp that was taped to the floors, the walls. The ceilings, I think, Dexter, which would explain why none of Sade's blood was found in the home yet. Because if he actually did kill her in an already pre-prepared room, it's a lot easier to hide evidence. There were three saws that might have been used and then disposed of. The informant told police how Maxwell was going to do it. He said he was going to go on a date with her, invite her back to his place, pull out a gun, force her into the basement, and then dismember her there before spreading her remains. Now, this is an anonymous informant, so we don't know, but it clearly matches the story and also would explain the lack of evidence found at his house. I just don't know why. I'm guessing he just wanted to kill? Yeah. I mean, he probably doesn't say why because he's probably claiming innocence or something. Now, after hearing this, police actually go back to Maxwell's home and they go to the basement, right? Because this informant said it happened in the basement. They recover a few items, including swabs from a leather couch, as well as some debris from a sewer pipe under the house. And while I know some of this evidence was used during his trial, I'm not sure if any of it actually matched DNA. But again, like Garrett just asked, why would he do this? Why shot a someone he had literally just met? Unfortunately, Maxwell never gave a concrete answer. There was, however, one clue from the date that might be tied to a motive. Apparently, at some point that evening, Maxwell turned on a Netflix series called Love, Death and Robots. The finale in season two has an episode called The Drowned Giant. It shows a giant human body on a beach getting dismembered. Gosh. Now, this can't be a coincidence, right? Like, this is what he puts on that night and this is what's happening on the show. Now, Maxwell Anderson's trial began on May 27th, 2025. Nine days of trial, the jury goes off to deliberate the following morning they're back with a verdict maxwell anderson was found guilty of first degree murder mutilating a corpse hiding a corpse and arson i mean open and shut like it was obvious yeah now after the conviction the judge reads a statement that maxwell had made to an investigator okay said he regretted not walking shot a to her car that night because he believes from the time she left his house and walked to his car that's when she was taken by her real murderer there is no way this guy is trying to deny it he's like i was set up now during the sentencing hearing both shot a sister adriana and her mother sheena spoke adriana said this quote when maxwell anderson murdered my sister he redefined my definition of misfortune he made it to where i cannot meet any person without the fear that they are now going to harm or kill me because all my sister did was meet someone and as a result he ended her life he tried to erase her existence and her value now i no longer have the opportunity to try and give her everything that she gave me sheena her mom meanwhile said quote you disrespectfully spread my daughter across milwaukee like a piece of trash which that statement alone is so sad i mean i i just think these people deserve so much worse than life in prison but that's just me she said how dare you i'm going to respectfully request that you confess where my daughter's crown is now sheena's referring to a piece of her daughter that is still missing that hasn't been found yes and that is her daughter's head now even after hearing these statements maxwell maintained he was innocent judge doesn't agree he sentences him to life behind bars with no chance of parole that's horrible that's absolutely horrible i hate that i hate when like the ego like you're going to prison for life and you're still going to have an ego it's crazy to me now unfortunately after all is said and done there were some things in this case that could have gone differently maybe made a big difference the first is shot a was 19 and went to two bars that night and was served alcohol which her mom was like how is that even happening she also wasn't notified by police right away about her own daughter's disappearance remember how the co-workers called it's not like anyone called her and said hey do you know where she is because she was over 18 right yeah but here's the thing this is such a sticking point that sheena actually pushed for legislative change she's like even if my daughter is an adult why why can't you alert everyone in her life that something's wrong so through the non-profit she started for shot a called shot a's voice foundation sheena's been working with state representatives to reform how police handle missing persons cases particularly those for black women and women of color the bill will help create a task force specifically designed to study the disproportionate victimization of women and it will change how missing persons cases are processed and prioritized the reality is that the bill will help create a task force that supports black women and women of color and makes it possible for black women and women of color to be able to support black women and women of color and to help support black women and women of color and that needs to change even after losing shot a the family was faced with more challenges and pain sheena had asked county officials to sponsor a memorial for their daughter asking hey can we do a public memorial seven thousand dollars and they agreed to put together a proposal but once the public caught wind of this they were like yeah absolutely we're not paying for this we don't want our taxpayer dollars going for it so sheena was like yeah we're not paying for this we don't want to this so as a result the family told them to pull the proposal they're like we're getting a bunch of hate we'll find a different way to honor her bro yeah who cares someone's someone just listen what daughter just died you can take my tax dollars to memorialize uh someone who was murdered you know my tax dollars is not going to the street out there that looks like crap and also like this is justice this is a part of the world we live in someone murdered someone else someone murdered someone else someone murdered someone else someone murdered someone else someone this is important to put a light on like if there is someone to memorialize a victim of murder someone who just got killed and killed in the way she did and discarded the way she did like crazy that is important to a community in in my opinion now her memorial is now being funded privately through community donations and a gofundme so i did link it if you are interested but for now there is a mural honoring shot a the family that sits outside her old job at the pizza shuttle and her family has been working hard to preserve her legacy through shot a's voice foundation which offers things like self-defense classes art therapy scholarships emergency healing funds if you want to learn more about it and take a second to honor her memory i have also linked that as well so please feel free to go check out those links um in the episode description and that's the end of this video that is the devastating case of shot a robinson this one was really just zero reason absolute zero reason like he just wanted to kill somebody like straight up serial killer type vibes just a bad person just absolute insanity you know no it's insane we've talked about how we see criminals differently on this show before but this is a time where garrett being like i wish there was something more that could be done uh-huh i i'm like how do you this is so senseless this is so and he's just gonna live his life in prison and probably enjoy most of it yeah this is not okay no nope not okay with that and like look at speaking of tax dollars going somewhere yeah everything he's keeping this dude alive for zero reason okay so we are get him out of here get him out disagree with me that's fine i don't care so let's take some time today to remember shot a for who she was and you know just think of everyone involved in the reality of all of this and then also checking out the resources that her family have put out there to you know try and make a difference thank you so much for watching today's episode or listening and i will see you next time with another one i love it and i hate it goodbye you're listening to this podcast so i know you've got a curious mind here's a helpful fact you may not know yet drivers who switch and save with progressive save over nine hundred dollars on average pop over to progressive.com answer some questions and you'll get a quick quote with discounts that are easy to come by in fact 99 of their auto customers earn at least one discount visit progressive.com and see if you can enjoy a little cash back progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates national average 12% off your car and your car insurance company and your savings of 946 dollars by new customers surveyed who saved with progressive between june 2024 and may 2025 potential savings will vary