Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Deadly First Date Dinner, Drinks, Dismemberment- The Sade Robinson Murder
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Morgan in nineteen ninety four, had
- 0:22Speaker 1: the good fortune of being tasked with being parper group.
- 0:27Speaker 1: It was a group that was actually established by the
- 0:31Speaker 1: National Institute of Justice through the Federal Justice Department, and
- 0:36Speaker 1: what we were tasked with was designing the national standards
- 0:39Speaker 1: for medical legal death investigators nationwide. And I got to
- 0:44Speaker 1: tell you, out of everything I did in my career,
- 0:46Speaker 1: pretty dull one proud of that. You guys can go
- 0:48Speaker 1: look at them. They're available there. Just go to nij
- 0:52Speaker 1: dot gov and you can search it out. It's there.
- 0:55Speaker 1: But you know, part of that journey to develop those standards,
- 1:00Speaker 1: which was roughly about a I don't know, probably about
- 1:04Speaker 1: a three year process, was the travel that I had
- 1:07Speaker 1: to do. And out of all the cities that I
- 1:09Speaker 1: traveled to while I was developing these, my favorite soon
- 1:13Speaker 1: became Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now Milwaukee, for those of you that
- 1:18Speaker 1: don't know, is a neat place by virtue of the
- 1:22Speaker 1: fact of there's so many cultures there, and particularly German
- 1:26Speaker 1: and Polish culture, and growing up in the South, I
- 1:29Speaker 1: was never really exposed to their food that much, and
- 1:32Speaker 1: boy was food great. I really enjoyed it. And I
- 1:37Speaker 1: enjoyed the people too, and the beauty. We were like
- 1:41Speaker 1: actually on the shore of Lake Michigan. I'd always been
- 1:44Speaker 1: to the ocean, you know, I had never even seen
- 1:47Speaker 1: the That was my first introduction of the Great Lakes,
- 1:49Speaker 1: and it's just so gorgeous. The water was so beautiful.
- 1:53Speaker 1: But you know, around that same time, there was a
- 1:56Speaker 1: real evil that had occurred in Milwaukee in the form
- 2:02Speaker 1: of a person named Jeffrey Dahmer, and the guy that
- 2:04Speaker 1: headed up the committee, who was the chief medical examiner
- 2:08Speaker 1: for Milwaukee, had handled those cases. Today, on body Bags,
- 2:14Speaker 1: I want to talk about something that has just occurred
- 2:18Speaker 1: in the last few days in the city that I
- 2:24Speaker 1: really love, Milwaukee, and it is a horrific case, a
- 2:29Speaker 1: horrific case involving a young woman who was right on
- 2:35Speaker 1: the cusp of entering in to full adulthood, making her
- 2:39Speaker 1: way in this world, and unfortunately she died at the
- 2:46Speaker 1: hands of an apparent monster who wasn't just satisfied with
- 2:51Speaker 1: killing her, he also felt the need to dismember her.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body Vats. Dave
- 3:05Speaker 1: you ever been to Milwaukee. I have not, You have not,
- 3:08Speaker 1: no It's a cool trip I felt. I've been to Chicago.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Chicago felt a bit overwhelming to me. It's so spread out,
- 3:16Speaker 1: it's really big. I don't think people really realize how
- 3:19Speaker 1: close Milwaukee and Chicago are. It's literally traveled northward on
- 3:25Speaker 1: the interstate and you will eventually hit Milwaukee. And Wisconsin
- 3:29Speaker 1: itself is a beautiful state, green, lush, rolling hills. I
- 3:33Speaker 1: found the people to be very friendly, and if you
- 3:36Speaker 1: enjoy beer, it's a great place. And if you enjoy
- 3:39Speaker 1: German food, oh my lord, it is incredible, very rich.
- 3:44Speaker 1: And since this time, since back in nineteen ninety four,
- 3:47Speaker 1: I've been back up there many times and have just
- 3:50Speaker 1: fallen in love with a place. Love going up there
- 3:52Speaker 1: and checking it out.
- 3:54Speaker 2: I have to wonder, how can a place this so
- 3:56Speaker 2: beautiful that you have such fond memories of, that has
- 3:59Speaker 2: so much history. How can it be home to two
- 4:03Speaker 2: of the sickest murderers, Jeffrey Dahmer and now Maxwell allegedly
- 4:07Speaker 2: Maxwell Anderson.
- 4:08Speaker 1: Yeah that possible, Yeah, yeah, I think about that as well.
- 4:12Speaker 1: We know that there's evil out there.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Until this evil took place, it was exactly as you're
- 4:19Speaker 2: explaining it was for shaw Day Robinson. She was excited
- 4:23Speaker 2: about a first date with the guy. Shaw Day is
- 4:27Speaker 2: a wonderful, smart a person. Everybody liked, the person who
- 4:31Speaker 2: never called out at work. Everybody liked work. Everybody felt
- 4:34Speaker 2: like the world was a better place.
- 4:35Speaker 1: With her in it.
- 4:36Speaker 2: And she was excited. She was talking to people about
- 4:39Speaker 2: this date she was going on when they were texting
- 4:41Speaker 2: back and forth. Been her and Maxwell Anderson. You know
- 4:44Speaker 2: about where to eat? She said, I'm feeling seafood, feeling seafood.
- 4:48Speaker 2: So he takes her to a place he used to work.
- 4:51Speaker 2: That's where they went to eat seafood. And she goes
- 4:55Speaker 2: on this date just like anyone else goes on a date.
- 4:58Speaker 2: They had a fun time. They eat dinner. They then
- 5:02Speaker 2: go and have a couple of drinks, just being together,
- 5:05Speaker 2: getting to know one another on a first date. It
- 5:07Speaker 2: seemed like they're having a great time.
- 5:09Speaker 1: I think. I think. Actually the bartender saw these two
- 5:13Speaker 1: at the bar, didn't they Yeah, And they weren't fighting
- 5:17Speaker 1: or anything.
- 5:18Speaker 2: No, No, they were again, it was a great first date.
- 5:22Speaker 1: It was.
- 5:22Speaker 2: It was a great first date on every angle except
- 5:25Speaker 2: for how it ended. And how it ended was they
- 5:28Speaker 2: go back to his apartment. Now I point this out.
- 5:31Speaker 2: It was a great first date. They hadn't they didn't meet.
- 5:34Speaker 2: It wasn't a blind date. I mean, it wasn't like
- 5:36Speaker 2: they had no communication beforehand. They had you know, they
- 5:39Speaker 2: had built up a time together communicating with one another
- 5:42Speaker 2: to leading up to this first date. And then the
- 5:46Speaker 2: first date goes well and they end up going back
- 5:47Speaker 2: to Maxwell Anderson's place. That's how so you know, the
- 5:51Speaker 2: date wasn't crazy. They weren't violently fighting with or arguing
- 5:54Speaker 2: or anything else.
- 5:54Speaker 1: They well, they don't have any history. They don't have
- 5:56Speaker 1: any history. I mean, you have to have history most
- 5:59Speaker 1: of the time in a relationship to fight about something.
- 6:02Speaker 1: I mean, where are you going to find common ground
- 6:04Speaker 1: to fight on? You know? I mean this is a
- 6:06Speaker 1: first state. You wouldn't expect that. That's I think that
- 6:09Speaker 1: that's what makes this really a bit darker.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Which is why it fits into what you were saying
- 6:14Speaker 2: about Milwaukee, about the area, about it has all these
- 6:17Speaker 2: great things that you can put together with it, yet
- 6:20Speaker 2: it can it can also have this type of behavior
- 6:24Speaker 2: that goes well beyond anything you and I would ever imagine.
- 6:29Speaker 2: But now, Joe, ever since we went to crime con
- 6:33Speaker 2: last fall and did the show about people being dismembered, right,
- 6:38Speaker 2: and you talked about this is really becoming common. And
- 6:41Speaker 2: here we are again with another episode where a person
- 6:46Speaker 2: is accused of luring somebody and that O don't the house.
- 6:50Speaker 2: You can prove because of what happened. It's like he
- 6:52Speaker 2: had to have been putting a different face forward to
- 6:54Speaker 2: her to lure her through the whole night, very engaging,
- 6:58Speaker 2: very nice, And they go back to his apartment where
- 7:00Speaker 2: he then kills her and cuts her up allegedly allegedly. Yeah,
- 7:04Speaker 2: and then wait a minute, but that's not where the
- 7:05Speaker 2: shock ends, Joe. No, he doesn't just leave her there.
- 7:09Speaker 2: He doesn't just go and dig a hole in the
- 7:11Speaker 2: backyard and put No. He then allegedly starts spreading her
- 7:17Speaker 2: body parts around to just be found by people for
- 7:22Speaker 2: a shock value. Is the guy writing a script for
- 7:24Speaker 2: a horror movie? What makes somebody Joseph Scott Morgan get
- 7:27Speaker 2: to the point where it's no longer just enough to
- 7:31Speaker 2: cut a body up of somebody you've just had a
- 7:33Speaker 2: great date with, to cut them up and then make
- 7:37Speaker 2: sure that regular people walk in the street, earl walking
- 7:41Speaker 2: certain areas could find these body parts and hey, let
- 7:44Speaker 2: me draw a little of attention to myself and set
- 7:45Speaker 2: the car on fire so that that can draw attention
- 7:48Speaker 2: back to her.
- 7:49Speaker 1: That's a fascinating point. It makes me. You know, first off,
- 7:53Speaker 1: I've covered dismemberment cases and many times dismembered parts will
- 7:58Speaker 1: be packaged some and then they'll be deposited into some
- 8:02Speaker 1: kind of wastebind, and you know where you can have
- 8:06Speaker 1: a passerby that are a homeless person that's digging in
- 8:08Speaker 1: the wastebind they find this part. You know, it's a
- 8:10Speaker 1: big shock. And many times you think, well, the perpetrators
- 8:15Speaker 1: trying obviously trying to obscure what they've done, and they
- 8:17Speaker 1: want to put as much distance between themselves and those
- 8:21Speaker 1: dismembered remains. But what you're talking about, it actually makes
- 8:24Speaker 1: me reflect back to a series of serial killings back
- 8:28Speaker 1: in New Orleans many years ago that I worked. I
- 8:32Speaker 1: think I caught too. This guy killed a whole series
- 8:35Speaker 1: of people, but I caught too, and Dave, this was
- 8:37Speaker 1: really interesting, interesting finding when he would kill he would
- 8:41Speaker 1: kill prostitutes. And when he would kill them, first off,
- 8:44Speaker 1: he would redress them and only in their underwear, and
- 8:48Speaker 1: the underwear was always turned inside out and forgive me,
- 8:52Speaker 1: I can't remember the diagram, the name of the diagram,
- 8:55Speaker 1: But do you know the drawing that Leonardo da Vinci
- 8:59Speaker 1: did that shows anatomical men with the arms spread upward
- 9:04Speaker 1: like this and the body makes kind of an X. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well,
- 9:09Speaker 1: each one of these bodies Dave was in that position,
- 9:14Speaker 1: legs spread, arms extended diagonally upward, and he would surround
- 9:19Speaker 1: the body with tires. And here's the one thing about
- 9:23Speaker 1: that case. And I came to the same conclusion that
- 9:25Speaker 1: you just came to about these deposition of remains. He
- 9:30Speaker 1: did not want individuals to smell the bodies, because you
- 9:35Speaker 1: can't smell anything if you've got a huge collection of tires.
- 9:38Speaker 1: All these bodies were found in like industrial areas where
- 9:42Speaker 1: there'd be like a big deposition of old tires, so
- 9:46Speaker 1: someone would have to visually find these bodies. And to
- 9:49Speaker 1: a person that discovered these bodies, they were shocked because
- 9:53Speaker 1: the body is decomposing and you can't smell it past
- 9:56Speaker 1: the tire. I actually remember conducting an experiment. We were
- 9:59Speaker 1: along industrial Canal in New Orleans and there was a
- 10:02Speaker 1: rotten dead catfish. This is on the second case, and
- 10:05Speaker 1: I picked up the catfish, and I put it into
- 10:07Speaker 1: the center of a tire just to test this hypothesis.
- 10:11Speaker 1: And the more tires are stacked that I stacked with
- 10:15Speaker 1: the catfish down at the bottom. You couldn't smell the catfish,
- 10:18Speaker 1: and rotten catfish stinks. And so I think that a
- 10:24Speaker 1: lot of this goes the deposition of remains here. There's
- 10:29Speaker 1: no rhyme to it necessarily. I'm really interesting if they're
- 10:34Speaker 1: going to do like a geographic profile in this case.
- 10:37Speaker 1: I think that this is ripe for this that try
- 10:40Speaker 1: to understand where these remains are deposited and what knowledge
- 10:45Speaker 1: would the perpetrator have about the location? Are you selecting
- 10:48Speaker 1: these because people walk their dogs, take their kids to
- 10:51Speaker 1: play in the park. You know there's a nice bench
- 10:54Speaker 1: where you're going to sit down. Is that the case?
- 10:58Speaker 1: Because if it is this, this is how bleak this
- 11:01Speaker 1: becomes really really quick. Dave, the idea here is that
- 11:06Speaker 1: not only do you want to murder Shade, but you
- 11:13Speaker 1: want to take her body and use it to terrify
- 11:19Speaker 1: an entire city. With my brother, Dave, educate me, man,
- 11:39Speaker 1: what's the Leonardo da Vinci diagram? Called again that I
- 11:43Speaker 1: could not remember.
- 11:45Speaker 2: The trouvian man and b I t are you v
- 11:50Speaker 2: I A n.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Listen everybody, Well, you can't say everybody. The lion's share
- 11:56Speaker 1: of the population has seen this. I knew what you
- 11:59Speaker 1: were talking about. I had to do.
- 12:00Speaker 2: I had to hit it. And all I could think
- 12:02Speaker 2: of when I was looking at it is Joe. I'm
- 12:05Speaker 2: glad you walked away from doing what you were doing,
- 12:08Speaker 2: and I'm glad you're teaching now because people like me
- 12:12Speaker 2: that are have reported and investigated things have no idea
- 12:17Speaker 2: about the things that you talk about on a daily
- 12:20Speaker 2: basis and explain. And I know that I appreciate being
- 12:23Speaker 2: a part of this because it gives me a different
- 12:25Speaker 2: look at things. And I'm not saying it's bad. It's
- 12:28Speaker 2: just I had no idea how people really I'm not
- 12:31Speaker 2: as shocked at things anymore. I'm more shocked. Does that
- 12:34Speaker 2: make sense?
- 12:35Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it does. And I think a lot of
- 12:38Speaker 1: it is in with Chade's case. You think that it's
- 12:41Speaker 1: kind of this progression into hell if you will, and
- 12:45Speaker 1: you and it's in degrees, okay, and you begin to
- 12:48Speaker 1: think about you sit around, it's like you think about
- 12:50Speaker 1: how much more evil can this get? And that's a
- 12:55Speaker 1: terrible thing to throw out there because the world will say, Okay,
- 13:00Speaker 1: I'll show you how much more evil this can time
- 13:02Speaker 1: every single time. And I really think, from an academic standpoint,
- 13:06Speaker 1: I really need to start doing a study about these
- 13:08Speaker 1: dismemberment cases. We've talked about it several times. There seems
- 13:12Speaker 1: to be an uptick and this is happening, and I
- 13:14Speaker 1: think that it goes to a level of callousness that
- 13:17Speaker 1: perhaps that we haven't experienced in modern times certainly, and
- 13:21Speaker 1: ancient times perhaps, But it is the most evil thing
- 13:25Speaker 1: that you can do. And you know, just the other day,
- 13:27Speaker 1: I had the privilege of appearing on Nancy's program on
- 13:31Speaker 1: Merritt Street Media with her, and you know, Dave, my
- 13:34Speaker 1: heart was breaking because Chade's mom was on there with us.
- 13:40Speaker 1: And I can't and I don't know that any of
- 13:43Speaker 1: us can actually begin to fathom the depths of grief
- 13:47Speaker 1: and pain. It's hard enough, and this is real. I
- 13:51Speaker 1: know this is rote to say that it's hard enough
- 13:53Speaker 1: to lose a child, but when you lose a child
- 13:56Speaker 1: in this manner and you don't have your child whole,
- 14:02Speaker 1: think about that just for a second, and you're getting
- 14:04Speaker 1: notified by the police. Her body is being discovered piecemeal,
- 14:09Speaker 1: and every single time it's almost like Shaddy's mother is
- 14:13Speaker 1: having to relive this notification over and over and over
- 14:19Speaker 1: and over again. It is absolutely heartbreaking. Please please take
- 14:24Speaker 1: me back to that period where they made the first discovery,
- 14:30Speaker 1: because one of the things I was hearing was they
- 14:32Speaker 1: had discovered a foot with pink toneill polish on it.
- 14:36Speaker 2: You know, the when you were talking about them continuing
- 14:39Speaker 2: to find and her her mother doing the show with Nancy.
- 14:45Speaker 2: You know, she has refused all other invitations for interviews.
- 14:49Speaker 2: She only did the show with Nancy because she thought
- 14:51Speaker 2: one she loves Nancy, She'll do one national show and
- 14:55Speaker 2: if y'all want to know what I'm thinking, use that
- 14:57Speaker 2: interview with her. And that's what they're doing in coverage.
- 15:00Speaker 2: But the fact that it's gone on for almost three
- 15:02Speaker 2: weeks now is we're taping this and they're still finding
- 15:06Speaker 2: body parts in the last eighteen hours. The shot goes
- 15:11Speaker 2: beyond anything I can imagine in looking at when this
- 15:15Speaker 2: took place. Shaw Day would have graduated from college in
- 15:19Speaker 2: May with her associates degree, and she was a month
- 15:22Speaker 2: away from being twenty nineteen years old.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Getting it.
- 15:24Speaker 2: I mean not not even a totally legal adult yet
- 15:28Speaker 2: right now, and goes out on this date with Maxwell Anderson. Now,
- 15:31Speaker 2: we got two ways of going through this. Let's start
- 15:34Speaker 2: with her car found burning. Okay, let me start right there,
- 15:37Speaker 2: because that's when the attention started to get drawn into
- 15:39Speaker 2: Somebody's gone Shawdey Robinson's car is found burning seven thirty
- 15:44Speaker 2: in the morning. It's a blue Honda Civic. A witness
- 15:46Speaker 2: sees a man with a tan backpack get out of
- 15:49Speaker 2: the car. Man throws a lit lighter inside the driver's side.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Car ignites. Man walks away towards a bus stop. The
- 15:56Speaker 2: witness lags down passing cars. Hey call nine one one. Meanwhile,
- 15:59Speaker 2: Maxwell Anderson is seen carrying this tan backpack on a
- 16:03Speaker 2: bus camera, because there are cameras everywhere. The next day,
- 16:07Speaker 2: April second, her right leg was found at Warnamont Park.
- 16:12Speaker 2: The leg was found by a civilian on the beach
- 16:14Speaker 2: north of the pumphouse. There is a cliff leading down
- 16:17Speaker 2: to the beach and the leg appeared to have been
- 16:20Speaker 2: sawed off at the hip. Now, according to what we
- 16:24Speaker 2: were told from the very beginning, the leg appeared to
- 16:27Speaker 2: be long to a black female about five feet tall.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Still had pink nail polish on the toes. Joe. The
- 16:35Speaker 2: femur was snapped off. Yeah, the bone was sawed halfway through,
- 16:41Speaker 2: and all I could think of, and I hate to
- 16:43Speaker 2: even say this, but for anybody who has ever had
- 16:46Speaker 2: to cut a tree, yep, you're cutting a tree limb,
- 16:50Speaker 2: you get halfway through it, and you're tired and you
- 16:52Speaker 2: just snap.
- 16:52Speaker 1: Yep.
- 16:53Speaker 2: Is that what they're saying happened with her femur?
- 16:56Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, that would approximate it. And it's Look, it's
- 17:00Speaker 1: the same principle here and as you know, it sets
- 17:03Speaker 1: your teeth on edge, you know when you hear this.
- 17:06Speaker 1: Here's the thing when an individual would attempt. First off,
- 17:10Speaker 1: most people, and we've talked about this, Lord help us,
- 17:14Speaker 1: when most people, I think, endeavor to do a dismemberment,
- 17:19Speaker 1: they don't think about having to get through the soft tissue,
- 17:22Speaker 1: and it gets very frustrating, particularly if you're using and
- 17:25Speaker 1: at this point we don't know what type of tool
- 17:27Speaker 1: was used, and I've had cases involving I think of
- 17:30Speaker 1: this young lady out in Seattle I covered a couple
- 17:32Speaker 1: of years ago. He had used a bosaw like you
- 17:36Speaker 1: trim your bushes with and done that in the bathtub,
- 17:39Speaker 1: and it's very rough going. If you know, in the
- 17:42Speaker 1: morgue we have scalpels, you know, in these sorts of instruments,
- 17:44Speaker 1: very sharp scissors, and we can go through soft tissue
- 17:47Speaker 1: to get to the bone. But if the only instrument
- 17:50Speaker 1: that you have is in fact a saw, and it
- 17:53Speaker 1: can even be a power saw, that is not created
- 17:56Speaker 1: in order to go through soft tissue. And so when
- 18:01Speaker 1: you get down to the actual shaft of a long bone.
- 18:05Speaker 1: You had mentioned the femur, which you have many times,
- 18:08Speaker 1: is that it's just like sawing wood. Forensic anthropologists study
- 18:13Speaker 1: these things where and there are some forensic anthropologists, believe
- 18:17Speaker 1: it or not, that specialize indismemberment. That's all they study.
- 18:21Speaker 1: They study tool marks on bones. It's a fascinating field.
- 18:24Speaker 1: It's gruesome, but it's a fascinating feel from that perspective.
- 18:27Speaker 1: They'll have these stop starts, and you can identify with
- 18:30Speaker 1: this with sawing a piece of wood. Have you ever
- 18:32Speaker 1: saw it and then gotten out of the groove. Well,
- 18:34Speaker 1: every time you do that, you put an additional mark
- 18:37Speaker 1: on the piece of wood. Same thing applies to bone.
- 18:40Speaker 1: It's hard work. It makes no mistake about it. If
- 18:43Speaker 1: you're so frustrated and you've gotten down and this is
- 18:45Speaker 1: just one limb we're talking about, Dave, one limb it
- 18:48Speaker 1: has to be then if you get frustrated, you got
- 18:50Speaker 1: to snap it off and then detach the rest of
- 18:53Speaker 1: the soft tissue. You're frustrated, you've burned up all over
- 18:56Speaker 1: your energy. Now what are you going to do? Well?
- 18:59Speaker 1: Maybe the perpetrator thinking about you know, I'm going to
- 19:02Speaker 1: take these items out, these elements of the body and
- 19:06Speaker 1: deposit them in various places as I build back up
- 19:10Speaker 1: my energy. Then you go back and you do it again.
- 19:12Speaker 1: You do it again, you do it again, and then
- 19:15Speaker 1: every time you're moving out of the house or whatever,
- 19:19Speaker 1: you're redepositing. Maybe at some point in time he saw
- 19:22Speaker 1: it off, two appendages, and in one run he deposited
- 19:27Speaker 1: them in various locations. Who knows, we're going to find out,
- 19:32Speaker 1: but there will be a tremendous amount of evidence. I
- 19:36Speaker 1: think in the basement of this home. What really kind
- 19:42Speaker 1: of peaks my curiosity about this is not so much
- 19:46Speaker 1: to dismemberment, as ghastly as that is. Are they going
- 19:49Speaker 1: to be capable of determining her cause of death? We
- 19:53Speaker 1: know the Manner's homicide. But how degraded were the remains
- 19:58Speaker 1: of how traumatized postmar I'm trump, I'm talking about where
- 20:01Speaker 1: the remains is there's a bullet hole, if there's an
- 20:04Speaker 1: injury to the neck, this sort of thing. Is it
- 20:06Speaker 1: going to be compromised so that you're not going to
- 20:08Speaker 1: be able to make out truly what happened? I think
- 20:12Speaker 1: that that that's going to be difficult. And you know,
- 20:16Speaker 1: the folks at the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's office, they
- 20:20Speaker 1: could do this one of two ways. They can say, Okay,
- 20:23Speaker 1: we're going to take this recently arrived remain and set
- 20:28Speaker 1: it aside and before we do the totality of the examination.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Because they know that they've got this young woman missing,
- 20:37Speaker 1: they're finding parts, so they wait until everything comes in.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Or a question to ask is are they examining each
- 20:45Speaker 1: remain as it comes in. My suspicion is they're waiting
- 20:48Speaker 1: until they get the body in totality, you know, until
- 20:52Speaker 1: they've recovered as much as they possibly can.
- 20:54Speaker 2: I think, Dave, with the leg being found, we didn't
- 20:58Speaker 2: think of the first leg being found being the first
- 21:00Speaker 2: first body part deposited. And that's not always the case.
- 21:03Speaker 2: It just happened to be the first one that was
- 21:05Speaker 2: fast one found. But there are things that they were
- 21:07Speaker 2: talking about where it was found. Are we talking about
- 21:11Speaker 2: the alleged perpetrator throwing it in the water and it
- 21:14Speaker 2: floating up on the shore. Can you imagine what is
- 21:17Speaker 2: he doing? Is he trying to hide it? What's he
- 21:19Speaker 2: trying to do? Is he trying to set it so
- 21:21Speaker 2: people will find it? Trying to throw it up? I
- 21:23Speaker 2: mean yeah to me, I mean, look allegedly again allegedly,
- 21:27Speaker 2: here we go. One of the things that's been put forward,
- 21:30Speaker 2: and I find this quite fascinating, that is that there
- 21:34Speaker 2: was a hole dug in his backyard.
- 21:36Speaker 1: Of that home. And this home, by the way, when
- 21:38Speaker 1: you see the images of it, is neat as a pin.
- 21:42Speaker 1: The grass is very well groomed, the house is very
- 21:45Speaker 1: well kept, it would appear. And you look at this
- 21:48Speaker 1: and you think, okay, you've dug a hole in the backyard,
- 21:51Speaker 1: and you're thinking, does this go to premeditation? You know,
- 21:54Speaker 1: what's the purpose of having this hole? Are you gonna
- 21:58Speaker 1: you know, it's spring time, or you think about putting
- 22:00Speaker 1: in a flower bed or putting in tomatoes? Because I
- 22:03Speaker 1: don't know, maybe that's what a defense attorney would say.
- 22:07Speaker 1: And you know you're it's a free country. You're welcome
- 22:10Speaker 1: digs me holes in your yard. I guess as you
- 22:11Speaker 1: want to. But from an investigative standpoint, if I'm seeing this,
- 22:16Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, maybe thought it wasn't such a good
- 22:20Speaker 1: idea to have this deceased young lady on his premises
- 22:27Speaker 1: in the wake of the fact that he has been
- 22:30Speaker 1: spotted in a bar and a restaurant with her. He's
- 22:34Speaker 1: the last person that was seen with her alive. They're
- 22:38Speaker 1: going to come asking questions, and he doesn't want to
- 22:42Speaker 1: have to explain why she is buried in his backyard.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Years ago, I actually had a case, actually it was
- 23:09Speaker 1: a colleague of mine that had a case where a
- 23:13Speaker 1: plastic grocery store bag was found and contained within the
- 23:18Speaker 1: bag was a head. And I remember the feeling that
- 23:23Speaker 1: I had in the wake of that discovery, and all
- 23:27Speaker 1: of us did. I think many of us at the
- 23:28Speaker 1: Emmy's office had that feeling, the same idea, Well, when's
- 23:33Speaker 1: the rest of the body going to show up? And
- 23:36Speaker 1: in that case, all we were left with was ahead.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Nothing else ever showed up. And that does happen. It
- 23:43Speaker 1: does happen. So you take that idea, and I'm thinking
- 23:47Speaker 1: about the investigative staff at the Emmy's office, and of
- 23:50Speaker 1: course the police that are working this case. And I'm thinking, Dave,
- 23:54Speaker 1: well are they Are they sitting on pens and needles?
- 23:56Speaker 1: Can you imagine being the homicide detective assigned to this?
- 23:59Speaker 1: And You're thinking, Okay, let's take an inventory of what
- 24:04Speaker 1: we have at this point? Where else can we look?
- 24:06Speaker 1: Is the body ever going to be reconstituted to some level?
- 24:10Speaker 1: Because I got to tell you, just listening to Shade's
- 24:13Speaker 1: mother the other day, she ain't gonna have burial until
- 24:16Speaker 1: she has her baby back. And that's just that's the
- 24:20Speaker 1: reality of it. What do we have up to this point?
- 24:24Speaker 1: And when were these items discovered?
- 24:26Speaker 2: Two things that got me, Joe. One was the fire man.
- 24:29Speaker 2: We'll come to that. But my first thought when I
- 24:32Speaker 2: heard the car was on fire, I thought he did
- 24:34Speaker 2: it to get rid of evidence. The alleged perpetrator did
- 24:38Speaker 2: it to get rid of evidence. But if you've listened
- 24:39Speaker 2: to Joseph Scott Morgan long and if you know that
- 24:42Speaker 2: the perpetrator, by lighting it on fire, didn't destroy evidence.
- 24:46Speaker 2: He actually probably locked some evidence in we'll get into that.
- 24:49Speaker 2: April first, Shade Robinson has disappeared. Had a date that
- 24:53Speaker 2: evening April second, seven thirty am. Her car is on fire.
- 24:57Speaker 2: It's found burning in an alley five point thirty That afternoon,
- 25:00Speaker 2: her car is at seven thirty am on fire. She's
- 25:03Speaker 2: missing five point thirty to the afternoon. The human leg
- 25:05Speaker 2: with the pink toenails is found in Warnamont Park. Two
- 25:08Speaker 2: days later, Maxwell Anderson is brought in for questioning because
- 25:12Speaker 2: they know that he was last on with her. The
- 25:14Speaker 2: next day, April fifth, three days after the first body
- 25:17Speaker 2: part was found, another body part found, this time near
- 25:20Speaker 2: thirtieth in Lisbon. The next day, human remains located near
- 25:24Speaker 2: thirty first Angalina. April seventh, more human remains located near
- 25:29Speaker 2: thirty first in Walnut. The next day, April eighth. Officers
- 25:33Speaker 2: are still combing the park for evidence and collected more items.
- 25:37Speaker 2: But when police find it, we don't know exactly what
- 25:40Speaker 2: they found. The only time we know what is actually
- 25:42Speaker 2: found is when a civilian finds it and they tell
- 25:44Speaker 2: us before the police do.
- 25:45Speaker 1: I'm sitting back and I'm thinking, my lord, I mean,
- 25:48Speaker 1: what else what else could their Torso?
- 25:52Speaker 2: Yeah, arm how about that that was found Joe just
- 25:55Speaker 2: the other day. Yeah, we are three weeks now away
- 25:58Speaker 2: from this almost and her orso an arm of shade
- 26:02Speaker 2: Robinson washed up on Milwaukee Beach.
- 26:06Speaker 1: So that begs the question, doesn't it is he? Why
- 26:10Speaker 1: would an individual who is randomly doing these these deposits,
- 26:16Speaker 1: why would he choose some of them to be Because
- 26:19Speaker 1: you know, if we go back to the leg that's
- 26:20Speaker 1: on the beach, was this something that he had walked
- 26:23Speaker 1: out into the water or did he And if you've
- 26:26Speaker 1: never seen the Great League Lakes, they they do have.
- 26:29Speaker 1: Look it's not like going to Hawaii, but there is
- 26:32Speaker 1: kind of a surf that's there. You know, the current
- 26:34Speaker 1: will push things into the beach. You can see breakers,
- 26:37Speaker 1: you know, on the shore, particularly if the weather stormy,
- 26:40Speaker 1: it looks like you're at the ocean. Did he not
- 26:43Speaker 1: walk the remains out there? Or did he take the
- 26:46Speaker 1: remains and put them into a tributary and have them
- 26:50Speaker 1: washed down the tributary and they wind up flowing back
- 26:54Speaker 1: into the shore. I think that that's certainly something you know,
- 26:58Speaker 1: to be considered. Here are these placements random? One of
- 27:03Speaker 1: the things that keeps going through my head. Dave about
- 27:07Speaker 1: this case, is that is this the first time this
- 27:13Speaker 1: individual has done this? Because you're talking about brother, you're
- 27:17Speaker 1: talking about going from zero to a thousand, All right,
- 27:20Speaker 1: this is not this is not like you know, you
- 27:24Speaker 1: kind of slipped into these waters and you're doing things
- 27:28Speaker 1: that you shouldn't be doing. Is you begin to think
- 27:32Speaker 1: has he attacked other people? Has he been this? Is
- 27:35Speaker 1: there this level of violence? Has he used sharp instruments
- 27:39Speaker 1: on anybody even in a fight? Has he threatened to
- 27:42Speaker 1: carve somebody up? Here's another big one. Are there any
- 27:47Speaker 1: other women in Milwaukee that fit the description of shah
- 27:55Speaker 1: Day that are missing? And I think that that that's
- 28:00Speaker 1: certainly something to consider where this would have to have
- 28:03Speaker 1: been done. You know, when you talk about dismemberment, you
- 28:07Speaker 1: have to have privacy. There's no way you're going to
- 28:10Speaker 1: roll out into the backyard and start doing this. You
- 28:13Speaker 1: have to have privacy. And from what I'm what I
- 28:16Speaker 1: am hearing, there's been a considerable amount of blood deposition
- 28:20Speaker 1: in his basement apartment essentially, or basement living.
- 28:24Speaker 2: Space actually in the hallway leading down on the stairway.
- 28:27Speaker 1: Yeah, and so was he dragging body parts up there?
- 28:31Speaker 1: And you know, and what else is in there. Here's
- 28:33Speaker 1: the other thing. When they sweep this area, when law
- 28:37Speaker 1: enforcement and I can assume that they have done this,
- 28:40Speaker 1: when they bring in that team of forensic scientists, the
- 28:44Speaker 1: random sampling in that environment, you expect to find his DNA.
- 28:50Speaker 1: You're going to find probably I think his parents actually
- 28:53Speaker 1: own the home and they've relocated to Florida. They're going
- 28:56Speaker 1: to find their DNA. Any of his buddies might find theirs.
- 29:01Speaker 1: But is there any unidentified DNA that's down there? Is
- 29:06Speaker 1: there any DNA that they could perhaps profile where they
- 29:10Speaker 1: could do phenotyping or get an idea as to who
- 29:13Speaker 1: this individual may have been, who it belongs to, Because look,
- 29:18Speaker 1: that question has to be asked, and I think that
- 29:21Speaker 1: the people in Milwaukee would want an answer to that,
- 29:23Speaker 1: because if they've got young women that are missing, your
- 29:26Speaker 1: boy right here, he moves up to the top of
- 29:28Speaker 1: the list for me. I want to look through that home,
- 29:32Speaker 1: any kind of vehicle he has, anything that he has,
- 29:36Speaker 1: I want to search it.
- 29:37Speaker 2: Joe, Okay, just to give you an idea. His dad's
- 29:40Speaker 2: very wealthy, a rich businessman. Maxwell Anderson was a high
- 29:44Speaker 2: school football star. After he didn't really amount to a
- 29:47Speaker 2: whole lot. He's worked for his daut a couple of times,
- 29:50Speaker 2: didn't really work out. He's ended up as a bartender
- 29:53Speaker 2: pretty much working as a bartender and what have you.
- 29:55Speaker 2: In and around Milwaukee. He did run a foul of
- 29:58Speaker 2: the law with the family members. It apparently has some
- 30:01Speaker 2: He's acted out a couple of times where police had
- 30:03Speaker 2: to be called. I'll give it that, but nothing like
- 30:06Speaker 2: this right now. Don't know if we have any other
- 30:08Speaker 2: women who have come forward to talk to police. We
- 30:10Speaker 2: don't know that yet, mainly because they have Maxwell Anderson
- 30:13Speaker 2: in jail. They've charged him with Shaw Dave Robinson's murder
- 30:17Speaker 2: and now they're putting the case together and they'll reach
- 30:19Speaker 2: out and if any women have come forward with other stories,
- 30:22Speaker 2: they're probably looking, you know, that's what yeah.
- 30:25Speaker 1: Buddy, let me tell you. They're going through his phone.
- 30:27Speaker 1: They're going through social media, any kind of dating apps
- 30:31Speaker 1: that he has there. They're going to be looking and say, look,
- 30:35Speaker 1: have you had contact with him? How did he behave
- 30:38Speaker 1: And they'll be bringing each and every one of these
- 30:41Speaker 1: points of contact along, not to mention all of his coworkers,
- 30:44Speaker 1: you know, the people that were in the bar. Did
- 30:46Speaker 1: he ever get spicy with any of the patrons that
- 30:49Speaker 1: came in there, you know, because fascinating. Yeah, go ahead,
- 30:51Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
- 30:52Speaker 2: The night they were out, the night that he was out,
- 30:55Speaker 2: it was like they went he went overboard to make
- 30:57Speaker 2: it not just a routine first date but a good
- 31:00Speaker 2: for a date. Because halfway through the night they took
- 31:03Speaker 2: a picture and sent it out. They're sending out Instagram
- 31:05Speaker 2: photos on their date. I mean, this guy was he
- 31:10Speaker 2: planned this out because look at what happens next. Follow
- 31:13Speaker 2: this timeline, Joe, It's very tight. Robinson and Anderson, they
- 31:16Speaker 2: go out to eat at a barhead a restaurant he
- 31:18Speaker 2: used to work at. Then they sit at the bar
- 31:21Speaker 2: and eat their food. Everybody sees them being pleasant. They
- 31:24Speaker 2: leave that restaurant, they go to Duke's on Water. A
- 31:27Speaker 2: pole camera actually picks them up and Robinson's Honda Civic
- 31:31Speaker 2: is parked at six thirty three. Six thirty four, Robinson
- 31:35Speaker 2: and Anderson get out of the car. Nine oh four,
- 31:37Speaker 2: Robinson and Anderson return to the car. Robinson and Anderson
- 31:40Speaker 2: are seen at Anderson's home by a neighbor's camera at
- 31:44Speaker 2: nine twenty four pm. There are two figures seen entering
- 31:48Speaker 2: Anderson's backyard. This is one made me think about the
- 31:51Speaker 2: hole that you said he dug. At nine to twenty six,
- 31:54Speaker 2: a living room light is turned on inside the home.
- 31:59Speaker 2: At eleven twenty five eleven twenty five, a figure coming
- 32:04Speaker 2: in and out of the home into the backyard on
- 32:07Speaker 2: and off until twelve forty five am. At twelve forty
- 32:12Speaker 2: seven am, Robinson's car departs Anderson's house. That would mean
- 32:18Speaker 2: Shaw Deve Robinson's Honda Civic leaves Maxwell Anderson's home at
- 32:24Speaker 2: twelve forty seven am. We know they arrived and she
- 32:28Speaker 2: was fine, alive, walk well, assuming it's her. Two figures
- 32:32Speaker 2: entering the backyard at nine twenty four pm at eleven
- 32:36Speaker 2: twenty five, one person is seen going in and out
- 32:38Speaker 2: of the house for the next hour, and so you
- 32:40Speaker 2: know Delly leaves, So she's dead by eleven twenty five,
- 32:43Speaker 2: two hours dead.
- 32:45Speaker 1: You got up. Yeah, And if he had the tools
- 32:50Speaker 1: at his disposal at that point, Tom and he had
- 32:52Speaker 1: a location where he could do this effectively and efficiently
- 32:55Speaker 1: as mechanical as that sounds. Did he use the car
- 33:00Speaker 1: in order to transport these remains and deposit them? Was
- 33:03Speaker 1: this a one time deposition thing where he's he's just
- 33:07Speaker 1: making the rounds to all these various locations, and that
- 33:10Speaker 1: does in fact bring us to the car because my
- 33:13Speaker 1: understanding is that they have also found gasoline containers that
- 33:18Speaker 1: he had at home. And here's the thing, if you
- 33:22Speaker 1: what people don't understand about using accelerants. I think that
- 33:26Speaker 1: it's fascinating. First off, that he strikes a lighter and
- 33:29Speaker 1: this is witnessed. He strikes a lighter outside of her
- 33:33Speaker 1: car and walks away, and then the next thing you know,
- 33:35Speaker 1: the car is engulfed. And you know, I'm always picking
- 33:38Speaker 1: on Hollywood, I know, on the show, but cars just
- 33:43Speaker 1: don't explode, all right, like that. Now you can have problem,
- 33:47Speaker 1: you can have that it does happen. But that's the
- 33:51Speaker 1: exception as opposed to the norm, all right, particularly from
- 33:55Speaker 1: within the cockpit of the car itself, within where the
- 33:59Speaker 1: driver's seat sits and all of this sort of thing.
- 34:01Speaker 1: So there has to be an accelerant at work. What's
- 34:05Speaker 1: going to happen with all of the material in that
- 34:08Speaker 1: car that they can save? And this is kind of fascinating.
- 34:12Speaker 1: When the arson investigators work that car, they're going to
- 34:15Speaker 1: take samples from within that car, and they're going to
- 34:19Speaker 1: put them into this. They're going to put it into
- 34:22Speaker 1: a paint can, okay, and what will happen is those
- 34:26Speaker 1: items settle, Like if it's a cloth off of the seat,
- 34:30Speaker 1: for instance.
- 34:30Speaker 2: Well, the paint can have it. They're gonna put it
- 34:32Speaker 2: in a paint can. What's in the pain can?
- 34:34Speaker 1: Well, I say paint can. It's a can that looks
- 34:37Speaker 1: like a paint can. They're all silver and they're used
- 34:40Speaker 1: for collecting arson evidence. And so what happens is as
- 34:44Speaker 1: gravity takes hold and that that item settles to the
- 34:48Speaker 1: bottom of the can, any fumes that are contained on
- 34:52Speaker 1: that item rise within that can, and they're going to
- 34:56Speaker 1: take a big plunger and they're going to stick it
- 34:58Speaker 1: in there and they're going to draw off that gas.
- 35:01Speaker 1: And then they're going to walk over to a GC
- 35:04Speaker 1: mass spec which is a gas chromatograph that's attached to
- 35:10Speaker 1: a mass spect machine, and they're going to begin to
- 35:14Speaker 1: take that sample and run it through the machine and
- 35:17Speaker 1: it gives you a chemical signature. All right. I'm not
- 35:21Speaker 1: going to go into all the details, but with the
- 35:22Speaker 1: GC you begin to kind of formulate what is present, okay,
- 35:28Speaker 1: within the sample. You can kind of get a generalized
- 35:31Speaker 1: idea when it's drawn over to the mass spec we're
- 35:36Speaker 1: talking about spectrometry, and so every element that you have
- 35:41Speaker 1: out there bends light in a certain way, and so
- 35:46Speaker 1: when you're talking about something like gas or ethanol, it's
- 35:50Speaker 1: going to refract I guess is the best way to
- 35:55Speaker 1: put it. It'll bend the light and it gives you
- 35:56Speaker 1: a specific readout on this thing. All gas, like you
- 36:02Speaker 1: draw up at the gas station, is pretty much the same.
- 36:06Speaker 1: What separates it though, is the detergents that the individual
- 36:10Speaker 1: companies put in there. So if we look at something
- 36:13Speaker 1: like VP or Texaco or Gulf or Shell Chevron, it
- 36:20Speaker 1: doesn't matter they all, you know, we see these things
- 36:23Speaker 1: you know with I don't know, and they're not sponsoring
- 36:25Speaker 1: the show. But whoever it is, it says, you know,
- 36:27Speaker 1: our gas has techron in it. Well, techron is some
- 36:31Speaker 1: kind of substance they have in there that is supposed
- 36:34Speaker 1: to reduce gunk. Okay, Well, it has a very specific
- 36:39Speaker 1: signature that's different than the gasoline. And so if this
- 36:43Speaker 1: suspect has taken those gas cans and gone to a
- 36:47Speaker 1: local filling station, well that's an old term people don't
- 36:50Speaker 1: use any more, gone to a local filling station and
- 36:53Speaker 1: filled up these cans with it. There's going to be
- 36:56Speaker 1: a very specific chemical signature goes back to that gas
- 37:01Speaker 1: if that's what he used as the accelerant. And so
- 37:05Speaker 1: that's what I mean, Dave. You know when I talk
- 37:07Speaker 1: about things like, yeah, you're trying to destroy evidence, and
- 37:10Speaker 1: maybe there was blood evidence in that car, because you know,
- 37:14Speaker 1: maybe if he's using it to convey this precious girl's
- 37:17Speaker 1: remains all over the place, maybe he got rid of
- 37:22Speaker 1: the blood evidence, but he's not going to get rid
- 37:24Speaker 1: of that accelerant that was in there, and that's going
- 37:26Speaker 1: to be his undoing. I think whoever I thought it
- 37:29Speaker 1: says I heard fire.
- 37:30Speaker 2: That was my first thought was jo Just Scott said
- 37:32Speaker 2: that he just burned himself by setting that fire. That's
- 37:35Speaker 2: what I heard you say, you know, because I've heard
- 37:37Speaker 2: you talk about what a fire does.
- 37:39Speaker 1: Well, Look, you and I have both been around We
- 37:42Speaker 1: grew up in sixties, right, We've both been around cigarettes
- 37:45Speaker 1: our entire lives. One way or another, we smoked or
- 37:47Speaker 1: we didn't smoke. Certainly our parents smoked. I can't remember.
- 37:51Speaker 1: I can't count how many times I've been burned by
- 37:53Speaker 1: a cigarette, not on purpose, but you know, parents used
- 37:56Speaker 1: to smoke around us all the time, and you know
- 37:58Speaker 1: they burn you. You know they're lighting up or whatever.
- 38:01Speaker 1: But have you ever seen somebody drop a cigarette onto
- 38:05Speaker 1: like the surface of a seat and a car well
- 38:08Speaker 1: that it smolders it catch it if it's fabric or
- 38:11Speaker 1: I guess it could be pleather or whatever it is
- 38:14Speaker 1: in your car, it's going to burn a hole in it.
- 38:16Speaker 1: But guess what it's not going to do. It's not
- 38:18Speaker 1: going to explode and envelop the car. Okay, that just
- 38:22Speaker 1: doesn't happen. And you have to have an initiate with
- 38:26Speaker 1: him striking that lighter. What's really fascinating about this, Dave,
- 38:29Speaker 1: is that we've actually got a witness that saw this
- 38:36Speaker 1: person strike this lighter. And I've got visions of zippos
- 38:40Speaker 1: coming into my mind right now, and you know, a
- 38:44Speaker 1: lighter that would stay burning and take it and toss
- 38:48Speaker 1: it like some movie into the cockpit of the car
- 38:50Speaker 1: and suddenly the thing's enveloped in flame. Now you might
- 38:54Speaker 1: think that you're going to get rid of everything, but
- 38:56Speaker 1: I can tell you science in the end is gonna
- 39:02Speaker 1: get you. And you can say that not only about
- 39:06Speaker 1: the fire. You can say that about the blood that
- 39:11Speaker 1: was left behind at his scene. You can say that
- 39:16Speaker 1: about the ct TV, But you know what else you
- 39:20Speaker 1: can say it about out there. Her remains are pointing
- 39:27Speaker 1: a finger back at this perpetrator, and her remains, in
- 39:32Speaker 1: the end will tell the tale of Shade's death. I'm
- 39:40Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.