Blood discovered in Maxwell Anderson's residence does not match the blood of Sade Robinson, the 19-year-old woman he is accused of killing and dismembering earlier this month.
Assistant Milwaukee County District Attorney Ian Vance-Curzan indirectly admitted this in an amended complaint filed on Monday, as Anderson entered a not guilty plea in court. WISN reported..
Vance-Curzan stated, "Preliminary DNA analysis supports the conclusion that there is no support for inclusion of Robinson’s DNA in any of the blood or swabs that have been tested, and in some of those, her DNA’s been excluded."
Despite the absence of blood evidence in Maxwell's home, a court commissioner decided there is sufficient evidence for the case to proceed after Anderson waived a preliminary hearing. WDJT reported..
The original complaint filed with Anderson’s arrest outlines other evidence used by the police to connect Anderson to Robinson’s murder, including video footage, witness testimonies, and phone records. as CrimeOnline has reported.
Robinson was reported missing on April 2 when she didn’t show up for work. She had told friends she was meeting someone for a first date the night before.
Her phone records indicated that she met someone at a restaurant at 5 p.m. for dinner, and restaurant staff identified her companion as Anderson, a former employee. After dinner, they went to a bar at about 6:30, and then went to Anderson’s home after 9 p.m. Cell phone records showed Robinson’s phone left there just before 1 a.m. and travelled to downtown Milwaukee. From there, it traveled to Warnimont Park in Cudahy several miles away — where a severed leg was found that afternoon and where the phone remained until the battery died just after 4:30 a.m.
Surveillance footage showed what appeared to be Robinson’s Honda Civic at the park until about 4:30, along with a “human figure” walking to and from the car multiple times. Three hours later, the Civic was found on fire several miles from the park and two miles from Robinson’s home. Witness statement identified Anderson as the man who set the Civic on fire. He then caught a bus back to his home, arriving at about 8:30 a.m.
The blood evidence that was not from Robinson was discovered on bedding and on walls leading to the basement in Anderson’s home.
A few days after Anderson’s arrest, an arm and a torso, believed to belong to Robinson, were found in south Milwaukee by a passerby. Police don't yet know where Robinson was killed but now believe it happened sometime between when the pair arrived at Anderson’s home at 9:24 p.m. on April 1 and when he left Warnimont Park at 4:30 the next morning.
[Featured image: Maxwell Anderson/Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office via AP and Sade Robinson/Milwaukee Police Department]