Wisconsin jury was left horrified when they were shown disturbing images a Netflix-inspired murderer a bartender took of his victim

Maxwell Anderson, 34, was convicted Friday on first degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and arson of property other than building

Anderson faces mandatory life behind bars at sentencing scheduled for August 15

Maxwell Anderson, was accused of killing 19-year-old college student Sade Robinson, in the April 2024, spreading her remains around Milwaukee County and burning her car to hide evidence

The pair met for dinner and drinks at the Twisted Fisherman in Milwaukee and went back to Anderson’s apartment

Prosecutors said Anderson took disturbing photos showing him groping Robinson while she lay face down on his couch and was said to be far too incapacitated to have resisted 

Another photo showed Anderson holding Robinson’s right breast as she lay unconscious, that breast would later be cut off her body, and is yet to be recovered 

Milwaukee bartender, Maxwell Anderson, [photo], was convicted on June 6, of first degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and arson of property other than building in the April 2024 murder and dismemberment of Sade Robinson

Maxwell Anderson, 34, the son of an insurance firm founder was convicted on June 6 of first degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and arson of property other than building in the April 1, 2024 murder of Sade Robinson. Pieces of the 19-year-old college student’s dismembered remains were found at different locations in the subsequent days.
The Wisconsin jury was left horrified when they were shown disturbing images the defendant took of the young woman he murdered and butchered on their first date, after watching a Netflix show that depicted an eerily similar mutilation.
Robinson, a criminal justice major at Milwaukee Area Technical College [MATC], met Anderson on April 1, 2024, for dinner and drinks, then went back to his house. He killed and dismembered her, scattered her remains at different locations then torched her car to throw off the scent.
The suspect previously worked for two insurance companies brokerages founded by his millionaire father, but at the time of the murder he was working as a bartender at Victor’s Nightclub in Milwaukee. Investigators uncovered that the former high school football star has crime in his past, including convictions for battery and domestic abuse.

Victim: Jurors were shown damning photos of Anderson groping Sade Robinson [photo], as she lay face down on his couch, seemingly far too incapacitated to have resisted

Investigators believe Anderson spread his victim’s remains around Milwaukee County and burned her car to hide evidence after the pair, for their first date, met for dinner and drinks at the Twisted Fisherman in Milwaukee, before going back to Anderson’s home. However his ruse failed as surveillance footage and eye witness accounts put the two together the last time Robinson was seen.
One of the photographs that prosecutors said Anderson took at his home show images of the homeowner groping Robinson while she lay face down unconscious or dead on his basement floor, apparently far too incapacitated to have resisted. 
Another damning photo showed Anderson holding Robinson’s right breast as she lay unconscious. That breast would later be cut off her body, and has not yet been recovered.
‘That was pretty damning evidence that shook everyone,’ said juror Melissa Blascoe, noting that it was the first time during the two-week long trial prosecutors proved Robinson was at Anderson’s house before her death.
‘I physically felt like I was gonna throw up at that point,’ she added. ‘I know a lot of people were shaking and crying.’
Blascoe who described the photos as Anderson’s ‘trophy,’ said those images will ‘be in my mind for quite some time.’

19-year-old MATC criminal justice major Sade Robinson met Anderson on April 1, 2024 for dinner and drinks, then went back to his house. He killed and dismembered her, scattered her remains at different locations then torched her car to throw off the scent

Findings from a search of Anderson’s home that uncovered blood on a bed and walls, dripping down to a basement filled with gasoline canisters, led to his arrest on April 4, 2024.
However an amended criminal complaint cast doubt over the blood evidence from his property, because analysis from the Wisconsin Crime Lab showed no evidence of ‘Robinson’s DNA in any of the blood or swabs tested.’
The original filing also cited surveillance showing Anderson on a date with Robinson on the night she vanished, and phone records traced her from the date to his home and to a park where her leg was discovered. 
That evidence also served as the ‘nail in [Anderson’s] coffin,’ Blascoe said, explaining that by the time jurors went to deliberate on the charges ‘everyone agreed pretty early in the morning that he was guilty.’
The jury then spent just an hour deliberating on Friday, much of it debating whether to convict him of first degree intentional homicide or first degree reckless homicide.

Anderson was reportedly inspired by the Netflix animated series Love, Death & Robots, to chop up Robinson’s body after he killed the teenager 

After they then read out their decision, Blascoe said the jury was presented with new information – that Anderson was watching the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots.
The animated show’s Season 2 finale, ‘The Drowned Giant,’ depicts the gruesome dismantling of a gigantic human body on a beach.
Prosecutors claimed that Anderson mutilated Robinson’s body on a Wisconsin beach overlooking Lake Michigan. 
‘I was like… that’s disgusting because that could have been where he got some of his ideas or fantasies,’  Blascoe said.
At the trial, prosecutors proved that Anderson spent months prepping his basement for the gruesome murder by covering it from floor to ceiling with painter’s tarp. The image also showed a sanitation sink and three saws. 
Prosecutors have previously also said that Robinson and Anderson were caught on surveillance footage leaving the Twisted Fisherman in Robinson’s Honda Civic at around 9.30pm on April 1.

Anderson Anderson [photo], was convicted on all counts – first-degree intentional homicide, dismembering a corpse, arson and hiding a corpse. He faces a mandatory life term at sentence scheduled for August 15

Maxwell Anderson was taken into custody on April 4, 2024, following a search of his house

An app on Robinson’s phone then shows it left Anderson’s home shortly after midnight on April 2, and traveled to Warnimont Park, along the Lake Michigan shore, where police would later discover a ‘sawn off’ human leg that was confirmed to be Robinson’s.
Surveillance footage from the park showed a Honda Civic ramming through a gate at around 3am and someone is seen going down to the water several times before leaving an hour and half later.
By around 7.30pm that day, the Milwaukee Fire Department responded to a vehicle fire – which investigators later determined was Robinson’s Honda.
Within the car, despite ‘extreme fire damage,’ investigator still identified the outfit Robinson wore for her date night along with burnt parts of an iPhone consistent with hers.

The murder and dismemberment happened at Anderson’s Milwaukee home [photo]. Although investigators found blood on a bed and walls leading towards his basement filled with gasoline canisters. Lab tests confirmed Robinson’s DNA was missing in the swabs

Then, on April 6, police found a foot and human flesh not far from the burned-out vehicle, which they confirmed belonged to Robinson.
Police also acquired surveillance footage showing Anderson getting on a bus near where the Robinson’s Honda was torched and riding to a stop near his home.
An ensuing search of his home also found blood in a bedroom and on the walls leading to the basement – where investigators found a ‘sex dungeon.’
Following the verdict on Friday June 6, Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Ian Vance-Curzan said he is ‘satisfied’ with the outcome.

The victim’s mother, Sheena Scarbrough [left], said that her daughter was a ‘loving daughter, a cherished sister, and a dear friend to many’

Robinson’s mother, Sheena Scarbrough, said in a GoFundMe for her daughter’s memorial service that Robinson was a ‘loving daughter, a cherished sister, and a dear friend to many.’ 
Following his conviction, Anderson faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for August 15.