Murder of Sade Robinson; Police focus on use of dating apps

MILWAUKEE – Police are targeting dating apps, according to recently released court documents, as investigators investigate the murder of Sade Robinson.

Millions of people around the world use dating apps. Others may meet at a bar near them. Those are two areas investigators focused on in the months after Robinson was last seen alive.

Police are trying to find out how the 19-year-old woman and her suspected murderer Maxwell Anderson met.

Sade Robinson, Maxwell Anderson

According to recently released search warrants, investigators subpoenaed Anderson’s work records for Victor’s, a bar in Yankee Hill. A co-worker of Robinson’s told investigators the two went there because “(Victor’s) never asked for identification or checked him.”

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According to the documents, a friend’s cellphone video showed Robinson at the bar on March 30, the day before she was last seen alive. Investigators also requested video from the bar to see if the two had interacted at any time.

Previously unsealed arrest warrants show that a confidential informant told investigators that Anderson intended to kill Sade Robinson. He dragged her into his basement at gunpoint, shot her, dismembered her and then scattered the body throughout the city.

A woman who dated Anderson in February said she was convinced Anderson slipped drugs into her drink.

As investigators tried to trace a timeline and connections, they also requested subpoenas for dating apps they believed Anderson used – Bumble, Hinge, OKCupid, Tinder.

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When investigators searched the house in April, they found handwritten usernames and passwords in a folder labeled “Dating.”

Anderson’s criminal trial is scheduled for December.

Robinson’s family also filed a civil lawsuit against Anderson. Hearings in that case are scheduled for Thursday morning, August 22.