(NewsNation) — A 33-year-old man was charged Friday in the killing of a woman whose leg was found on the beach of a lakefront park near Milwaukee.
Maxwell Anderson is jailed on charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson in the death of Sade Robinson, according to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court.
Retired Milwaukee police Lt. Steve Spingola, who worked extensively on the Jeffrey Dahmer case, joined NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield on Friday to discuss the case.
When asked if there were any similarities between Dahmer and Anderson, Spingola said Anderson doesn’t appear to be as “charming and intelligent as you would have expected him to be if he was a serial killer.”
Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was convicted of killing and dismembering 17 men in the Midwest in the 1990s and storing their body parts in his refrigerator and freezer.
“There’s a treasure trove of file of forensic evidence that’s left at his (Anderson’s) house. And on video cameras, and with witnesses, it’s a little bit different than with Dahmer. Remember back in 1991, we didn’t have any of that,” Spingola said on “Banfield.”
Anderson was arrested April 4, two days after the leg was found by a passersby down a bluff at Warnimont Park along Lake Michigan in Cudahy. The leg had been severed just below the hip.
Robinson had been reported missing April 2 by a friend. An employee of the building where Robinson lived told police that Robinson was excited about a date she had planned for April 1, according to the complaint.
Surveillance video from a restaurant showed Robinson and Anderson sitting together at a bar the evening of April 1. Her burned car was found the next morning.
Additional human remains were found April 5 and April 6. Those remains have not positively been identified as belonging to Robinson, police said.
“At this point in time, we don’t believe there are any other victims out there,” Milwaukee County Sheriff Denita Ball told reporters Friday.
Anderson was ordered held on a $5 million bond. A preliminary examination was set for April 22.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
