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

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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 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, no, I'm real big, no, you know, you have a 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. Watch 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 like 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 stuff. It was fun. It was a good game. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of all I got from my 10 seconds. Well Garrett was watching the soccer game a little bit. 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 into 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 watch 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, like doesn't win the 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 don't know that they would be good for dollars. Argentina would be pretty cool too. Does the USA have a chance? Yes. Small chance? Yes. But 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? That is on Wednesday. The Wednesday 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, dailymail.co.uk, vixbergnews.com, the cinema. Go find me shadesvoicefoundation.com, wpr.org, capital B news.org, CBS news, USA Herald Findagrey, fox6now.com, MSN.com, and whbl.com. Quick disclaimer, this episode includes discussions of dismemberment. So please, as always, listen with care. Now as you guys know, Garrett and I have been married for quite a little while, but there is something about first date jitters that I sort of miss, but maybe don't miss the butterflies, the getting dressed up. What do I wear trying to leave a lasting impression to get another date? And honestly, after Garrett and I first day, I was really worried. Like when we got off our first date, I was like, I hope he liked me enough to go on a second day with me. Right through all these, like, first dates are always scary because, I mean, Grant, it's been a while. It's been a bit of my first date, but first dates are always scary because you just, you can be yourself, but like, you can't, you know, it's not like you're just yourself, you're nervous. There's a lot going on. Yeah. Like, I think some people have the ability for sure, not me, like I was, you were reserved. Yeah. I like, I feel like everything, majority people are toned the back a little bit. Yeah. I just start just doing, like, seeing crazy stuff. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I don't know. Anyways, but I do remember, like, most of the time when I would go on a first date, afterwards, I wouldn't feel like this, like, immense pressure. It was more just like, either that was fun or that wasn't fun. With you, I got home and I was like, oh, I hope I, I was re-evaluating everything I said and did because I was like, I don't think I paid attention enough on the date. Like, I don't know if I was trying hard enough. But I wanted, I wanted to go on a second date. Well, we got married. I know. So maybe what I did work. I don't know. I feel like we were both pretty reserved. Yeah. I think so too. So, I think deep down, most of us hope a first date will somehow lead to a happily ever after Prince Charming, woman of our dreams, but not all first dates get that fairytale ending. And some, as we'll see in today's case, actually end up more like a Stephen King novel with an ending so disturbing, it'll make you think twice about ever going on a date again. So let me take you guys to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where in 2024, so rather recently, we meet a 19 year old woman who is basically doing everything she can to build a future for herself. Her name is Shade Robinson. Now, Shade was born on May 10, 2004, and she was originally from Vicksburg, Mississippi, but she moved to Milwaukee with her family when she was around two. Now, Shade's mother and father were never married, but they split their time with her. They co-parented her, which meant Shade also split her time between two high schools, and in Milwaukee and another in Florida. So throughout high school, she would just kind of go back and forth between mom and dad. And then after that graduating high school, she went on to study at Milwaukee area technical college, getting her degree in criminal justice. But Shade's real goal after graduation was actually to join the Air Force. She was the kind of woman who was always thinking about our future. She was working two jobs while taking college courses. One at a pizza shop called the pizza shuttle, and then the other as a server at a country club where she actually worked with her younger sister, Adriana. Now, Adriana and Shade were very close. Since they were only about three years apart, they were kind of besties. They can fight it in each other a lot. And Adriana looked up to Shade. So at this point in her life, she is managing to juggle school, two jobs, paying for her own apartment and a car, and she's managing to do it with grace. Everyone who worked with Shade said she was one of their best employees. She was extremely reliable, responsible, always in a great mood, positive attitude, someone who lifted others spirits and motivations. So it was really alarming. And Shade didn't show up to work for her shift at the pizza shuttle on April 2nd, 2024. Now just a few days before she doesn't show up for her shift, March 31st was Easter Sunday. And Adriana, her little sister, saw her that morning because they worked a shift together at the country club. And then afterwards, they got cleaned up and they actually went over to their grandparents house for Easter dinner. Adriana said Shade was in a great mood as always. They had a beautiful Easter together. And when Shade dropped her off at home that night, she told her little sister Adriana that she loved her. And then the following morning, Monday, April 1st, we know that Shade faced timed her mom, Shina. And Shina thought her daughter was actually in an even better mood than usual. But there was nothing that 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 915 for her shift where she stayed and tell 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 time? day. And it wasn't until the following afternoon. So April second, that her co-workers picked up on that something was wrong. Because again, Shade 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 Shade 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 noticed is there was no one inside this vehicle. But they did pick up on the smell of petroleum and 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 word. 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 to a hundred degrees. There's smoke everywhere. It's horrible. Anyway, sorry. You can go. Luckily, I don't think anyone like any homes or anything. Oh, no, homes have really the homes in like cottonwood. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. There's like two sets of fires died from it. But these 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'm just did not need that visual. Sorry. It's okay. It's important to the case with 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 Shade Robinson's car. Now, remember, they have just been asked to do a welfare check on 19 year old Shade at the same time. But there was something even more unsettling about the car. And that was the driver's seat. It was pushed pretty far back. But as police quickly realized, Shade 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 making 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 Shade 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. Oh, okay. 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 leg, I would be like, that's a human leg. I'd be like, that's a like costume Halloween costume mannequin. Like something. There's no way I would be like, that's a real human leg. And the thing is my gosh, even when people find a 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. It's worse finding an entire body or a leg because the leg is so scared. Like a body scary, but a leg is scared to it. Where's the body? Yeah. That's so scary. 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 call that 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 real person who had their toes painted or painted their toes. And now their leg is like in this park. It's just devastating. Now they also quickly learn 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. That's just 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's the body? It takes them a few hours to learn that there was also a missing 19 year old woman, Shade 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 belong to Shade. Obviously, they still needed to send it out for DNA testing first. They have a hunch. They're working on a hunch. So the next move was speaking with potential witnesses, like Shade's mother, Shina, 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. Imagine setting your makeup. Then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Maybelline New York. Jelly Miss technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all day comfy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue, just plum, dewey hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Maybelline New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. Now the following day, April 3rd, officers visited Shina's house. This is the mother's house. And when they spoke to her family, they claimed Shade 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. Shade 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. And Shade had been sharing her location with her family. It showed that on the night of the first, Shade 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 Dukes on water before she ended up in a residential area near 39th in 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 Shade'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 of a bar. 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 asked the family, do you know if she frequents this like specific park, the Warnamont Park? Her family's like, no, we have 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, they 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 Shade. So now equipped with her final location information, officers went over to the twisted fisherman. 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 first, there was Shade 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 as an example, like all of her tree. It's where 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 video tapes. But no one's seen. No one knew. Like 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 tire 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. 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 Shade, but despite that, it does appear that they are on a date. And then the two left the bar around 630 p.m. headed presumably for the second location that Shade'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 Shade'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 415 p.m. This was before Shade left work at the pizza shuttle that day. And they kept texting up until 518 p.m. So about an hour and during this hour exchange, the man asked, quote, are you hungry? I'm need to stop at twisted fishermen to pick up my W2 from last year. And we could eat their 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 Shade responded, okay. And yes, are we eating at the Brat House or the other place? And he says, let's eat at twisted. I'm filling 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, Shade had actually just met Maxwell a few days before that date. Shade had walked into a bar looking for a new job. And she met one of the bartenders, six foot one Maxwell. He 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'd actually been in the Navy for a bit, which considering Shade'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. Okay. 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. He gets a lesser charge in 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, in 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 went 3%. Here's the thing. It is like more common practice now for people to try to run background, ground 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 pass 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, Shade 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 in 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 Shade and Maxwell left the twisted fisherman together, her life 360 output, her at another one called Dukes on water. This is like a bar restaurant police also stopped by that location. They get the security footage, which shows again, Maxwell and Shade playing beer pong together against another couple. Now Shade appears to be smiling. She's definitely like out of her shell. They're kind of flirting a bit. She's loosening up 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 Shade appears to be disoriented or drunk. Obviously, police are looking to see, is it possible? She was administered a date rape drug. She appears to be OK. 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 Shade'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 knows 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 253 a.m. this was after driving around for two hours. Her car was seen parking along the Lake Michigan shoreline near Warnamont 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. I love it. 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. So it's getting even harder or anywhere unless you're out in the middle of the country. Someone steps an inch on my blade of grass. Notify. I see you. You have like put it back. You're like the incredible house. It's like alarm start going on. I have those like, you know, those laser lines that I wear. Yeah. 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. Is that kind of 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 is on camera. Someone gets out of Shade's car and they start dragging something from the car down to the lake 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 I mean, it's not like you can see its face, but if 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's it clock 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 going to 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 suburban's behind me. And you're like, great. What have I done? And they were following me. They followed me all the way through our neighborhood. Pat, like I was coming up in my house. I'm like, great. Wait, I saw those. You saw them. Yes. I know exactly what you're talking about. Scared me for zero reason, but scared me. I was like, I'm done. I'm done. Get arrested. I'm going to joker. You're like, what have I done? I have no idea. But they're trying. I was like, please don't follow me. They didn't follow me. 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? No, 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 placed 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. It's over. It is over. He asks for a lawyer immediately. He refuses to cooperate. But officers were already working on another strategy. Getting inside Maxwell's house 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 shoday. 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 shodays. So it was actually blood from a dog, which still like, I don't understand, I don't understand, but we don't have the 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 guest themselves after they don't find a shred of evidence that shoday was killed in this house because they believed this was their crime scene. Now, meanwhile, Shoday's friends and family felt the police just weren't doing enough to try and find the rest of Shoday's body, which kind of makes sense because 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 6th, less than a mile from where Shoday'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. More remains like in a different area. It was a few blocks away. But yes, like it remains scattered all over. 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 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 foot with like one's a leg with a foot attached. 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. So finally, they also find that one of her friends Kiki was out searching and they found a blanket with Shade'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 Shade Robinson. Three days later on April 15th, a bunch of people stood outside of Maxwell Anderson's home holding posters, balloons, photos of Shade. 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, Shade's loved ones wanted to give them something else to gawk at. So that's why they set up this entire thing for Shade outside of the house. They called it a pink out. 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. 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-girl friend. Okay, sorry. I heard that wrong. So she sees the news about Shade. She sees that Maxwell has been arrested as 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 like, yeah, he never physically hurt me, but he's a bad person. Like 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. The hardly anyone else knew about it. 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. Oh, no way. There's no way. The beach where the body parts were found. Yeah. She's like, yeah, so this This is the worst part of all of this. That's his favorite beach where you found her body. So now police were thinking, hey, what if the crime actually took place there? What if he had done something to shot 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 likely this scenario actually becomes, because on April 18th, the 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 imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all day come to the grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue, just plum, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. Maybe it's Mavily. 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 Shoday'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 gate match 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 him 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 like in the footage was never recovered. However, the jacket told enough it was tested. It had Shoday'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. You know what? 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 Shoday 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 yes, 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. Does this random, like do you really go on a first date and murder someone or had Maxwell Anderson plan 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'd 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 Shade'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. Police 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 throughout a city. Now, this isn't anonymous. Like, why? This isn't 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. Like, he just, I'm guessing. He just wanted to kill. Yeah. I mean, he probably doesn't say why because he's probably cleaning in a sense 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 you're just asked, why would he do this? Why shoddy? Someone he'd 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. 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. Like it was obvious. Yeah. Now, after the conviction, the judge reads a statement that Maxwell had made to an investigator said he regretted not walking shoddy 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 Shoddy's 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 along is. Yeah. So sad. I mean, I just think these people deserve so much worse than life in prison, but that's for me. She said, "How dare you? I'm going to respectfully request that you confess where my daughter's crown is." Now Sheena is 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, the 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 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, Shade 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?" It's because the co-workers are so far. This is such a sticking point that Sheena actually pushed for legislative change. She's like, "Even if my daughter is an adult, why can't you alert everyone in her life?" That something's wrong. So through the nonprofit, she started for Shade called Shade'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 there's just not enough help or support, and that needs to change. Even after losing Shade, the family was faced with more challenges and pain. Sheena had asked county officials to sponsor a memorial for their daughter, asking, "Hey, we do a public memorial, $7,000, 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 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 just listen to what's daughter just died, you can take my tax dollars to memorialize someone who is murdered 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 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 That is important to a community in in my opinion Now Her memorial is now being funded privately through community donations and a go fund me So I did link it if you are interested, but for now there is a mural honoring Shade that sits outside her old job At the pizza shuttle and her family has been working hard to preserve her legacy through Shade'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 in the episode description And that is the devastating case of Shade Robinson This one was really just zero zero reason Absolute zero reason Like he just wanted to kill somebody like straight up serial killer type vibes Just a bad person. This absolute insanity. You know And it's insane. We've talked about how we see criminals differently on the show before but This is a time where Garrett being like I wish there was something more that could Yep 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, I just not okay. No, nope Not okay with that and like look at everything he did going somewhere Yeah, everything he did 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 Shade 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. 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