Mom of woman, 19, murdered on first date issues jaw-dropping courtroom threat to arrogant killer as he's jailed for life

Daily Mail​

4 days ago

The heartbroken mother of a 19-year-old woman who was murdered on a first date told her daughter's killer during his sentencing that she will haunt him for eternity.
'You and your family will be held fully responsible for the rest of your lives,' Sheena Scarborough told Maxwell Anderson on Friday as he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Sade Robinson.
'You will be eternally haunted by myself, my ancestors... I know you can't sleep at night, they have already been at you.'
Anderson, 34, was convicted in June of killing and dismembering college student Robinson during their first date last year in Milwaukee.
Prosecutors said he cut up Robinson's body and dumped one of her legs near a playground. Parts of her body, including her head, were never found.
'Judge, I'm asking this demon be respectfully returned back to hell as soon as possible,' Scarborough added.
Robinson's father, Carlos Robinson, suggested to the judge that someone dismember Anderson.
'Everything that he did should be done to him,' he said. 'No man should be able to live after what he did. That's just how I feel. I can't get past this. I can't.'
Anderson maintained his innocence throughout the trial and the sentencing.
'I took this to trial without ever once trying to make a plea deal of any kind because I did not commit these crimes,' Anderson said on Friday.
'And so I plan to appeal my convictions, while I hope and pray that further investigations not only prove my innocence but find and deliver true justice.'
Anderson and Robinson, a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College, first met at a bar in March 2024 a week before her death.
Police said they then spent the late afternoon and early evening of April 1 drinking at two bars before heading back to Anderson's apartment.
Photos on Anderson's phone showed Anderson groping Robinson as she lay face down on his couch. Prosecutors have argued she was incapacitated and couldn't resist.
Surveillance video showed her car leaving his apartment early on the morning of April 2 and arriving at a park along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Prosecutors claimed that's where he cut her body into pieces. He later burned her car behind an abandoned building and took a bus home.
Searchers discovered one of Robinson's legs in the park and her other leg and a foot near a playground close to where he burned the car.
Within the car, despite 'extreme fire damage,' investigators identified the outfit Robinson had been wearing on the night of the date as well as part of an iPhone consistent with hers.
A human torso and an arm believed to be Robinson's remains washed up on a beach in suburban South Milwaukee. Her head is still missing.
First-degree intentional homicide in Wisconsin carries a mandatory life sentence.
The only question for Anderson on Friday was whether the judge would allow him to seek parole.
Anderson's attorney, Tony Cotton, asked the judge to make Anderson eligible for parole after 25 years.
He argued that Anderson served in the US Navy and suffers from obvious mental health issues.
Cotton acknowledged that Anderson has been convicted of multiple misdemeanor disorderly conduct counts in connection with domestic violence but they're not significant offenses compared to most homicide defendants.
He added that he has concerns about Anderson's safety in prison.
But judge Laura Crivello refused to offer Anderson a chance at parole. She dismissed Anderson's claims of innocence, saying his view of reality 'differs from the rest of the world.'
Trailing off at times and shaking her head, she said he's irredeemable, called his crimes 'unconscionable' and likened the case to something out of a horror novel.
As previously reported, before the gruesome murder, Anderson and Robinson watched 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.