MILWAUKEE, Wis. — In court today, a judge denied a request to separate an arson charge from two other criminal charges against 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson. This means he'll be tried for all three charges, at the same time, in the same jury trial.
Anderson is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and arson in relation to the death of 19-year-old Sade Robinson.
Prosecutors say Anderson killed and then dismembered Robinson after a first date in early April, when she was reported missing.
Another hearing is scheduled for late October, before the trial is set to start December 9.
In July, a series of search warrants reavealed disturbing new details about Anderson's home.
Pictures in the warrants show Anderson and Robinson on their first date at the "Twisted Fisherman," a local restaurant in Milwaukee.
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The pair went to at least one more bar before Robinson disappeared.
We now also know what evidence police found inside Anderson's home — that includes a Crown Royal bag with an ID belonging to a 27-year-old woman, a notebook with other women's names and information about them, and women's clothing hidden between basement support beams and in the foundation wall.
Anderson was pulled over on April 4th in his 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. Before it was towed, a detective "observed what appears to be blood in plaint sight on the front passenger side door speaker."
A search of the car found:
- Black brand folding knife
- Wood handled knife/cutting instrument
- Bedazzled compact mirror
- Black jacket from rear passenger seat
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