MILWAUKEE — The man convicted of killing and dismembering a young Milwaukee woman after their first date has been transferred out of state.
35-year-old Maxwell Anderson is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the death of 19-year-old Sade Robinson in April 2024.
State records confirm Anderson was moved from Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun this week, but they don’t indicate where he’s currently located. That information is typically withheld for security reasons.
Attorney Anthony Cotton tells WTMJ he requested the move.
“I reached out to the governor’s office before (Anderson) was even sentenced in this case because I knew it’s a high value target in prison and that there would be serious risk to his safety here in Wisconsin,” Cotton said.
Cotton defended Anderson during the highly publicized trial in 2025. He tells WTMJ he doesn’t know which out-of-state prison Anderson now calls home.
“I don’t know where he is… I think the way they do it is they probably do a prisoner swap. We’ve got this inmate, and then State B has another inmate, and they just transfer them from one to the next,” Cotton said.
A transfer out of the Wisconsin system is rare, but it has happened before.
Jake Patterson, the man who abducted 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killed her parents in 2018, was moved out of Wisconsin to a prison in New Mexico. Chai Vang, who shot and killed six deer hunters in northwestern Wisconsin in 2004, was transferred to a prison in Iowa.
Anderson has said he plans to appeal.
