First Date

0:06 Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering how is this even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's kJ back for another is that of Unspeakable, and I have got a good one for you today. I think I always have good ones, but this one I really dove into this one. It caught my attention from the jump, and it's one that I think that you will maybe have heard about but maybe don't have all the details because you know, Mama watched the trial and so I'm gonna I'm gonna play it all out for you. But before I do that, I've got some shout outs that I need to give and you need to give me some credit here, girl, Kelly, are you listening, because this is this is Kelly talking to Kelly right now, I looked up how to say your last name because I didn't want to jack it up, and the Internet has put me in a tizzy here. So I'm gonna say in Canton, Michigan that I think Kelly Klein Sorge is

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3:54 In April of twenty twenty four, so just a little while back is when this took place, it had been a couple of rainy and dreary days in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, and this was a really popular area where I'm talking about for folks. They would gather, they like to enjoy the shoreline right there on Lake Michigan. But April second wasn't going to be one of those days because this Saturday, there wasn't a lot of movement there on the lakeside, nor at Warnabut Park because the weather was just disgusting. It was just a dreary, nasty day at the park. And this area where the park is located is really in a populated area because during the week if you look at the layout, imagine just a strip of road.

4:36 There is a high school right there, the local high school, and then the police department is not just a little ways down the road. There's a big golf course that's located in the corner area of the county. And so it's not like this was a sparse area. It just was a nasty day, and so there wasn't a lot of movement out and about. But the weekend, combined with this terrible weather, made it just a ghost town. Nobody was in school and it was just miserably miserable, windy and wet. The water too was super super choppy, was crashing along the rocks water side, which made it just not an ideal place for anyone to be relaxing or hanging out, unless really you were maybe bored and young and looking for an adventure of some sort. And that was exactly the case for two young men. Their names were Osiris and Evan, So Osyrus and Evan. They looked to be kind of tween aged guys with this sort of maybe skater dude vibe if you're checking them out.

5:35 But they were out at that Warnamupe Park that day in an area that was not well populated in this park where people did go. It was kind of off the beaten path, and they were exploring. They were in this usually very undisturbed area of where the park edge meets the water of Lake Michigan. Now, the area that they were in was very hard to reach traditionally. It wasn't like there were steps or pathway or anything like that for them to follow. It was really kind of untouched in that area. There was lots of rain that day, like I told you, and so where they were there was also a lot of clay that was kind of falling from this cliff side of the area where they were exploring. So a little bit about Warnamup Park real quick.

6:20 It's very, very large. It's about two hundred and forty acres. They have this eighteen hole golf course. Off on the side of it, there's a dog park and it extends along the coast of Lake Michigan, and they do have trails there that people like to walk or I guess you could say hike and hang out. But this was not that place where these where these kids were. So they climbed over things like fallen logs, and they went through some dense brush along this slippery and super steep edge that lined the waterway. And they probably weren't supposed to be there per se, but they weren't up to no good. They were just doing what young guys do. They were just going to check some shit out. So they made their way down the steam deep edge and they were walking along the shore and they were commenting to each other about how crazy the waves were. I mean, they were extreme on this day, crashing with huge wooshes up against that that shoreline. Well as they're walking through that blowing mist and they're scouring the ground looking for cool artifacts. One of them happened to just glance up on the ledge, and there they saw part of a mannequin.

7:27 Now that's creepy as hell. Let's stop real quick. That is creepy as hell. Imagine if that would have been real, if you looked up and you saw something that was real. But this was just part of a mannequin on the side. So they walked up closer to it to check it out, and that's when they received the shock of a lifetime because y'all, it was not a mannequin. It was real and it was a human leg. So the boys obviously were stunned. They're looking at a whole human leg laying there up on the side of this cliff, and so they became panicked and they were in shock. They scrambled back up the hill the way that they came, got to their phones and they called nine to one one. So that's when Officer Zachary dis Met was dispatched to warn them up park in the afternoon for the call of finding a human leg. So, you know, sometimes people call in things that are just kind of ridiculous. I remember one time we were working one night and people called in that there was human remains on the side of a road near if you're from where I'm at, it was near seventh Ward Elementary, And so we go driving up and we get out and it was a sheet like it was just a sheet. It was a sheet on the side of the road. There was nothing there, So you never know if what you're being called to is actually going to be anything at all. So when he pulled up, he parked near this area where the water pump station was located, and it was at the end of a service road that led close, very close to the water's edge, and was obviously a better route for an adult to go to this call than the

8:57 way that the boys had gotten where they were. There was room for a vehicle to drive because the pump house for the city was down there as well, and it's not a public accessed area. Only employees of the water department, the fire department, and the police department should have been able to access that drive because they would have had keys to this gate. So once the officer parked, that's where he found the two males standing in a field and they were waving him down, and it was Osiris and Evan. So the boys were frantic, as you can imagine, and when he arrived, he was really kind of unsure of what was going on. So the officer didn't know these guys very well, and again, really bad weather. So he decided that he was going to place Osiris in the back of his police unit for the time being, and Evan was going to lead him to the area where this leg was found. The reason he chose for Evan to lead him down there was because he actually knew Evan from some minor interactions with police in the past.

9:55 And I want to tell you that it was really neat to watch this interaction one body cam, because when I say he knew Evan, I don't mean that they hung out or went to church together, their families knew each other. No, he knew him from the street, okay, But Evan wasn't some some little thug lit running the roads. Evan just was a young guy and had some minor bumps with police, nothing that turned out to be of any major consequence. But because he knew him, he said, all right, bruh, you follow me down there, and I'll and I must see where this leads. So Evan pointed and brought him, well, brought him down there, and then he pointed in the direction of where the leg would be. Once the terrain got super slippery and steep, so Officer dis met left Evan there and he made his way carefully down the embankment, which took some time. There was lots of debris and driftwood in that area, so he really couldn't see the leg initially, even though Evan was pointing, he couldn't see it because of all the stuff that was also up there on this bank. So I have a photo of this, by the way, from the body cam that'll show you exactly what I'm trying to explain to you when you go on Patreon and you check that out. So the officer went down there alone, like I said, and left Evan up before it got slippery.

11:08 But because those waves were crashing so terribly, he now could not hear Evan. Evan was yelling to him, but it was just too loud, so he had no choice but to have Evan now come down that steep terrain and meet up with him and walk with him. Now, the thing that became an issue here is that if this was a leg like this boy was saying, he did not want any evidence to possibly be destroyed or part of a crime scene to be trampled, and that's why he didn't bring him all the way initially, but now though, to preserve the scene, what he did was he had the boy lead him there, but he held him by the back of his jacket so that he could really direct him if he saw something that he did not want the boy to disturb. In any way, it definitely was not a walkable area, and with the poor weather, it was slippery, so I thought that was a pretty pretty smart move on that officer part. So they walked for a bit and then Evan pointed straight up to tell you how shocking it was this site.

12:08 It's one thing for me to just tell you what happened, but to be there to tell you how shocking it really was. Evan got startled again when he saw it, and it's Evan's reaction was so startling that it actually startled the officer. And sure enough it was a human leg on the side of the cliff up from the waterline roughly ten to fifteen feet. So the officer radio to dispatch, confirming, Yep, this is indeed a real leg and we need to secure the area as well as he wanted to kind of update them on how terrible the conditions were that they would be facing. As the team arrived to start doing an investigation. Now getting closer and taking a good look, he could tell immediately that the leg was from a black female. She was short and she had pink toenail polish on the foot. So looking at how this leg had been removed from the body, it was from the hip joint, and it was cut clean through. It was not jagged like if this would have been some type of horrible incident that happened at sea or something. It seemed that this was a very fresh leg, which is just disgusting for me to describe it that way, But it was very fresh, It was not decomposing, and there was not a lot of blood at all. Really, there was no blood on the leg.

13:25 So the waves continued to crash, and because they were crashing, the leg was starting to be compromised by the waves, and so the officer had to move the leg so that the waves wouldn't take it. So what he did was he grabbed on the ankle and then he kind of supported it under the thigh and he gently kind of moved it so that he wouldn't lose it To the ocean. Now, I gotta stop right here and tell you this. I don't know if you know how heavy a human leg is, but I learned this whenever I was giving birth because I don't know if you know this, but husbands tend to hold legs while babies are being born, and my husband was not prepared for how heavy a leg would be and go lift somebody's leg up like that is a heavy thing to lift up dead weight.

14:14 So assessing the leg as he was having to lift it and move it, he believed in that moment that this was either a young girl, possibly a teenager, and taking in everything that he had seen and he was looking around. He also saw a brawl and a T shirt nearby in the area, but he wasn't sure if that was related or not to the scene. So the medical examiner was notified they needed to come. They took custody of the leg as well as they took DNA samples from this leg, and they sent it off to the crime lab for testing. Now, Detective Joe Anne Donner, who was with the Milwaukee Sheriff's Office, was brought in to investigate this, and upon arrival, she really took in the scene as she approached the leg on the cliff.

15:00 And I say this so easily, as if it's just commonplace that a person's leg is just there with no body attached to it. But that's really just the job is to look and say, my god, how did a leg get here? So Detective Donner noted that the leg was a right leg, and there were no tattoos, the leg was smooth, There was no injury, no obvious injury where maybe the leg was removed in a boating accident or something like that. Now, the detective herself was tiny, She stood about five foot three, so she knew that the person whose leg this had to be must have been shorter than she was, because she compared her own leg to the dismembered leg that was there, and so she stood five foot three. This leg was shorter than hers.

15:49 So the severed location wasn't through the thigh. Though, if as people may think I'm saying when I say it was a clean cut, it was actually below the top ball of the hip. So, like I said, a motor blade hadn't just cut it off. No scavenging animals had removed it from a dead body that was laying elsewhere. This was very well described, I felt by the detective. She said it perfectly. She said, the bone looked like if you were sawing through a tree branch, and then when you got to the very end where it was just you know, it got more brittle and you just snapped it. It was clean straight through, but there was a tiny jagged piece sticking off of the bone where it had I guess snapped off. She also went and looked at the braw and the T shirt that was found by that initial officer, but she determined that that had to have been there much longer than this leg, and so she determined that it just it probably was not part of the scene. It was under some driftwood.

16:48 It was covered with sand and so weathered that she ruled it out as related to that freshly deposited leg. So, as you would expect, the detective organized a large search to see if the person whom the leg was removed from could be found in the nearby area because she didn't get far with her leg cut off, so multiple K nine searches were done. These cadaver dogs came in. Ground penetrating sonar was used to search the area, but they found nothing. After this very extensive search. Drones were used up in the air searching found nothing. Dive teams were brought in on multiple occasions, they found nothing. So in the many, many times that the detective had been out to that area, she started thinking about what would have gone on there, that this leg could have ended up there. And she noted, I mean I've been here a lot. I've never seen anyone down in that area walking.

17:43 It's not a walkable, easily got, you know, area to get to. It's just not a very popular area to enjoy the water. And that said, the detective said, well, it is a place though, where teenagers like to hide out because it's not so populated. They have fires there from time to time, maybe sneaking a beer to that type of place. So this meant to her that the leg was likely to have been hidden there because it certainly had not washed ashore, and someone had to have brought a dismembered leg with them and deposited it there. There had been plenty of criminal activity the night before, so police had their hands full that day following up from the previous night, everything from a suspicious car fire to missing persons reports to other more minor crimes, but their hands were full. So in town Christine Shuda she was working as a leasing agent at an apartment complex in the nearby area, and upon arrival to work, she was met by a coworker of one of her current tenants.

18:49 This tenant was not a troublesome one, so for someone from her work to come and ask if she would possibly use her master key to open up the apartment was a huge red flag. This wasn't someone that was normally a problem at all at this apartment complex. She told this person that came to check on one of her tenants, AB's a fricolutely not I'm not gonna take my master key and just go walk in an apartment. That's not how this works. And from her point of view, she's like, I'm not about to get in the middle of some squabble between adults and start opening doors willy nilly like that. Ain't that ain't gonna what's gonna happen here? But she asked a little bit more, had a few more questions, and Christine was told that her tenant, whose name was Shade Robinson, hadn't shown for work and they were very worried about her. So much so that's why they wanted to get into the apartment. Shade didn't no call, no show. That just was not who she was. She had never been that way, and so it just really had them alarmed for what was going on with her.

19:49 So understanding now what the whole situation was, together, Christine and the coworker went to Shade's apartment and they knocked and knocked and knocked, but there was no answer. So that po leasing manager Christine suggested, maybe you should try to call her mom or a parent, but the co worker didn't want to do that. Now, I'm not going to call her mom. I don't want to get up in the middle of all that. So Christine then suggested, well, maybe we should call the police. Maybe the police could do a welfare check on her. So that turned into nothing, and the coworker ended up leaving and returning to the place of work, which was called the pizza Shuttle. And when that coworker went back to the pizza shuttle and spoke to the manager, they decided at that point, you know what, maybe we really should call nine one one for the welfare check, and so they did, and so the police would start looking into her whereabouts for now though they were having to deal with something else. They had this suspicious car fire that had happened overnight and another part of town as well as now a city worker was calling in to make a police report about a smashed fence at the Dawn water pump station. Like total vandalism and ridiculousness was going on in town. So this guy's name was Francis Miller. He was the Department of Public Work supervisor and he was notified on April second that the gate that closes off the service road to that water pump area looked like it had been rammed by a vehicle. So he called the police really for insurance purposes, because if he didn't have a report, he couldn't make the claim to have it repaired. And so the police said, sure, we'll be out there shortly.

21:16 We'll take our pictures, we'll ride our report. Now this gate, I want to tell you a little bit about it. It was a large industrial gate and it was in proper working order the night before because work crews were there and they had left around four pm. So this had to have happened overnight. It wasn't like it had been that way for days. So usually the gate was closed and then it was chained shut, and it has these poles that are mounted in the ground as you'd expect on either side of the of the drive. Well, a car had clearly blown through that gate and even up ended the poles that were in the ground. So while mister Miller was awaiting the police arrival for the report, he found some car parts that were near the gate, and it seemed pretty that these were from the car that must have rammed the gate. So he decided and this tickled me because I don't know that I would have thought to do this necessarily. I would have just been pissed off my gate was broken. But he decided to go through these pieces he found, and he looked and was able to locate a stamped bit of information into the plastic in the pieces. And so, just out of curiosity and I guess boredom waiting on the cop he decided to google it and show enough. If that did not come back to a Honda Civic, so he figured that must be the car that rammed the gate.

22:34 And this wasn't an accident either. I want to be clear about that this road was off the beaten path, clearly marked with multiple signs. There was a do not enter, do not park, all these signs in big bold signage and lettering, so this was absolutely on purpose. So police arrived and they took the pictures, wrote the report and gave it to him so he could make that insurance claim. This type of shit is so aggravated at minimum because it wastes resources of officers and time, and it costs taxpayers money. But it has to be dealt with. Now. While that was wrapping up, I want to go back now to that missing person's report for Shade Robinson. Who was she and what was she like? This is something that we all want to know. If someone is not answering their phones, is this normal? Look, we all have somebody we know is going to be an hour late to a party. We all know them right now in your head, you're laughing, you know, Yep, that's who it is.

23:27 We all know the person who's not going to answer the damn phone. We also know the person that will always answer the phone. Those are things that police officers want to know because that's characteristics that can give us an idea of whether there's trouble or not. Well. Shade was nineteen years old and she had moved with her family to Milwaukee at the age of two, so I mean she had been there a long time. And she was described when she was younger a very curious child. She loved to explore. She had joined the Girl Scouts, which was so exciting for her. And as she got older, she grew to be someone who loved the arts. She loved the beauty of dance. But she also and I love this, appreciated the toughness of the military. She thought that was cool. She loved because she was young at this time, the ROTC program, which she joined in school with dreams of eventually hopefully being able to join the US Air Force. This girl was a dedicated student, a teacher's dream. She even graduated a semester early from Riverside High School in twenty twenty two. So this girl was a winner, to say the least. So she had enrolled in college and she was pursuing a degree Dunda dun in criminal justice. So this is a girl after my own heart. Totally lover already, Okay, And the fact that she was missing though, was really strange too, because the area where she lived was not one that police frequented.

24:56 We all know the areas where the police are gonna have to be making arrests at night. Wherever you live, you know where you're supposed to be, and you know where you shouldn't be. This was a good place where she was. So Shade held two jobs, okay, one at that pizza shuttle that I mentioned to you, and another at the local Wisconsin country club where she worked, but also her sister worked there as well. They were servers, and she was a well loved coworker. Her fellow coworkers really thought that she was everything that a coworker should be, and this included a man named Quincy who suffered from some pretty terrible walking disabilities. Shaw Day would always greet him with a smile and go out of her way to help Quincy up the stairs when he would get to work. She was just a kind hearted girl like that.

25:48 And not only was she helpful and kind, but she was a social butterfly. She was a magnetic personality. And I don't want to say she lit up a room because it's so damn cliche, but when I heard social butterfly, you know exactly who this girl was. You know that she had that smile, she had that laugh that people noticed because she was vibrant, and she radiated joy and confidence. Does that sound like a girl who's gonna just stop answering her phone, because it doesn't. I know that, and you know that. So some of her friends kind of took note of this because one of her friends named Elena.

26:29 They had just been discussing how exciting it was that Nicki Minaj was going to be having a concert in two weeks, and Shade was so excited. She wanted to go so bad to this Nicki Minaj concert. It was almost Shade's birthday, right, so she wanted to plan something awesome. Young people, you know, they always want to have their birthday week and all of that. So Shada was over the moon about all the excitement and things that were to come. Clearly very driven and motivated young lady. She earned everything that she had too. She was very independent. She was blazing a path for herself with plans for the future. But now poof, she was just gone with absolutely no sign of where she would be. So where do we even start. Well, the welfare check was done as promised by police. They arrived at the apartment and they were let in by the maintenance man. His name was Eddie and Eddie, the maintenance man, opened up that apartment for them so they could conduct their search. So while they were opening the door, though, Eddie kind of glanced over his shoulder and mentioned that Shade had waved by to him just the night prior when she left the apartment complex, like he saw her because she said by Eddie, and she even did a little small talk while she was leaving and told Eddie that she was going on a date and she was super excited for this date. She was just a friendly girl, and he really was worried and hoped that she was okay. And he never saw her after that. So the detective that was on that scene, her name was Nora Burlow. She

28:00 entered Chade's apartment, which was in unit three oh nine, and she immediately observed that this was a studio apartment, very small, very small, but it had a kitchenette, it had a large closet and a bathroom, and then the rest of this apartment was just kind of open. It was, you know, it kind of reminded her of a college student's dorm room. Messy of course, but typical for someone that was her age. Lots of purses and clothes everywhere, she had a trundle bed, but the bottom wasn't pulled out or anything. And there was also a safe in her apartment. Now, they were able to get into that safe and a few things caught their attention. One of them was there was THHC in there, and there was also a small amount of meth and they said that this was in pill form. So while this girl's missing and I don't necessarily like to bring to light any negative things, it's the truth and that's what they found.

28:57 So this kind of made the police wonder, is it possible that she could have come in contact with a less than desirable person, maybe in conjunction with this aspect of her life, and maybe met some sort of problem, and that's why she's not answering the phone. Now, this was certainly an unknown but it was taken into account as a possibility that they may need to look into. So they started looking through these purses that were also strown about in this apartment, and Detective Burlow found an ID in one of them, and comparing that photo on the ID to the demographics that she pulled from the Department of Transportation database, the detective was able to pull together a basic physical profile of Shade, a short black female.

29:41 So why is this important? Well, this peaked that detective's interest in that she had already been briefed that morning on the leg that was found at Warnamonte Park. The leg that was found was of a short, black, presumed female based on the pink toenail polish that were on the toes. So was it possible that that leg belonged to Shade? That really became the thought on the forefront of this detective's mind. So she would need to retrace Shade's last known whereabouts though, to see if this was even a possibility in a timeline that she would have to create. So the detective was able to confirm Shada had gone to work at Pizza Shuttle on April first, and she did work her shift. And Shade had lots of friends, but specifically she had one friend that she worked with at the country club that would call police whenever she got word that Shade was missing. They were very close, specifically for the past year. They did homework together, they hung out, They even had created dating profiles together online, things like tender and hinge and all that kind of stuff.

30:49 And when that friend was told that Shade was missing. She, as you can imagine, became immediately alarmed by this and doing what young people do. She pumped on Life three sixty. Now, I gotta tell you this. I find it so weird, so weird how teenagers are today that they share their location with everybody, with everybody. It is the weirdest damn thing to me. But they do. I have teenage, a teenage child of my own, and I'm like, why, She'll She'll look down at her phone. We'll be driving. She looked down, She'd be like, oh, so and so's at the water park. I'm like, how do you know that? Oh, I'm looking at Life three sixty. You had damn stalker.

31:29 Why are y'all doing this? But when she looked and I'm not, Yeah, I'm not being mean to teenagers, okay, but it is weird. It's different from the time I grew up. But when she looked at Life three sixty to see where Shade was, or at least where her phone was, she was really confused because Shade's phone was showing at Warnemont Park. But because of the day and the time of day that it was, she realized, Okay, well, Shade is missing. So this can't possibly be true because Shade's phone was showing that it was for a LM in the park. Well, that can't be because it's not four am. So she figured, Okay, I guess her phone must have died when she was at that location last and she never reconnected to update her current location. So this friend, her name is Elena Fisher, contacted police. Now, this had been her best friend since fourth grade, really a good friend since fourth grade, and she had just spoken to Shade about a Jamaica trip that she went on and they had talked about life in general. So when she found out Shade was missing from her cousin, she panicked, so she called police to give them the last known location of what Shade's phone was showing, and this included a drive that she took to a restaurant and then to another one at about nine twenty six on the Freeway which took her to Gordon Street and then to a share it in drive. Now, kudo's to this friend, because this friend wasn't playing. This friend mapped it out and it was literally a map of everything

33:02 Shade had done prior to her disappearance and prior to the phone not connecting and giving an update on her location. So putting the two friends' location information together, a pretty clear picture was being painted. Shade had gone to a few locations and ended up last known at the same park where that leg was found, and it was a black woman's leg. So, as you can tell, this is not looking good in terms of finding Shade alive at the moment. Well, the car fire from that night before Shade was reported missing also came into play at this point. So the fire department got a call for a vehicle fire in the wee early morning hours of April second, which was only two blocks from where the fire department was.

33:47 So the fire was mainly in the passenger side and the trunk area of a small sedan. Now, no people were around the actual car because the car was next to a vacant building, and the fire department knew it was a vacant building because they were actually using it. They were doing trainings there, so no one should have really been back there for any type of legitimate business, I guess, as you could say. So they extinguished the fire and then they cut into the trunk because they wanted to make sure that no one was in it. And when they cut it open. Luckily no one was so because this was so suspicious, they called police. Police arrived and they started taking photos. The officer wrote down the plate number and the VEN number on this vehicle and they ran it in the database to make sure that the license plate and the VEN number matched and that they could identify who owned the vehicle, and that vehicle came back to none other than shot A. Robinson. Now, the front of the vehicle was damaged, and not just from the fire. It looked like this car had run into something. In the passenger side they found shot A's purse, and in the trunk the police uncovered multiple items. They found some ripped, whitewashed jeans and a puffy black jacket, as well as some they looked to be like tannish yellowish underwear. Now, there was something about the location of

35:19 that underwear that is a little bit if you're a woman, it's kind of spine tingling, because the underwear was still around the legs of the jeans. The jeans were inside out, and it was like the jeans had been peeled off of someone and not removed one leg at a time. It's like the underwear and the jeans were grabbed at the waist and then peeled back off of someone because they were in reverse, but they were still around the legs of the jeans. There was also a work apron that was in the trunk, and police could smell gasoline. There was obviously some type of accelerant here, and they found that it was really on this stuffed animal that was in the vehicle. And something that they noted also was the driver's side seat position. It was very very far back. Well. Shade Robinson, based on their demographics, was very tiny. So what they did was they took the seats and they got a same model vehicle as the one that was burned, and they got two officers at the department to come and sit in the vehicle. One of them was a really tall officer, one of them was a really short officer. And the tall person fit comfortably the feet touched the pedals. There was plenty of headroom and all of that, but the little shot, a short, little self, would not have been able to reach the pedals comfortably. So the in and of itself, that was a clue. Police did not believe that Shade Robinson was

36:51 the last one who drove her car to where it was finally left and set on fire. So a detective went to the Shuttle Pizza which was to Shade's apartment and was able to get video of Shade's last shift from the manager. And that last shift would have been on April first. Remember leg is found on April second. Carfire is on April second. Shad Ay worked on April first. So the video showed her arrive and I watched all of this video, so it shows her arrive. She parks in this parking garage, and her vehicle is noted as a Honda Civic in the video and matched the burned vehicle obviously, but one difference was that the front end of the vehicle did not have any damage to it.

37:35 It was in perfect condition. So she got to work around nine am. She left around five pm, and as she backs out and drives off, you can see the vehicle was in great condition. There was just one gut wrenching thing about that video though, and it's that you can can't help but notice what Shade is wearing. She was wearing ripped, whitewashed jeans and a puffy black jacket, the exact same clothing that was now found in the trunk. Of her burned car. So what the hell happened to Shade after five pm? So five pm would now become the new timestamp of her last known whereabouts. A request of Shade's phone providers had been that a request had gone in to get her phone records, but that did not come back in yet. I mean, this isn't the movies where it comes back in three seconds. It takes time.

38:24 So meanwhile, police were wondering if maybe the front end damage to Shade's vehicle was connected to the gate that was smashed at the water pump station right near where the leg had been recovered. So a detective, Nathan Spittelmeister, went to go check this out. And remember how I told you there was a police department located right near the high school, which was right basically across the street from where the water pump station would be and where the leg was found. Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today? Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you what happened in New York. It cannot be as crazy as the case I told you about yesterday in Louisiana.

39:07 You know what, we should do a podcast about it. And with that we did. Crime War Weekly covers the crime news headlines that have dominated the week. We cover trending crimes from all over the country and even sprinkle in a few globally. Crime War Weekly is available now wherever you listen to your podcasts. Simply by searching crime wi Weekly or clicking the link in the description of this podcast. So there were two cameras that really would come into play. One faced a large open field area which was the area of where the busted fence was. But it was very, very grainy, very poor quality. It's like, damn, if you're going to put cameras up and go to the trouble of putting them up, how about we buy some good ones.

39:57 How about we do that people, because why have the camera if the image looks like shit? Okay, but that's what we have. So the other one face the parking lot of the station. So you're looking at this very boring video of basically a parking lot. But in the very far right corner of the video, in the very top far right of the video, there's a white shed that can be seen in the distance, and that shed is right where two streets intersect, So where those in a intersect the public would have to either turn left, or if you're come in the other direction, you would have to turn right, because it's just like it comes to a point where you have to turn. The other option is that you could go straight, but that just is an entrance to a golf course, so there's no reason to go there. Like at night, you know, you just have to turn where these roads intersect. Only the private access to the pump station is at the end of where the intersection is also and that gate is locked, so that's why you have there's nowhere else to go.

41:02 So the video catches that area just barely, and it's so dark. It's very dark at night, very very still, and nothing is happening. There's no one on the roadway except one vehicle that eventually comes into frame. There's a flash of light which is clearly a dark vehicle traveling because like I said, it's very poor quality, but you can see the flash of light which you can identify that it's a car traveling. And then that light just disappears. And this was around two thirty ish am in the morning. Then about two hours later, at four thirty am, the car lights return from the area where they disappeared and the car goes back in the opposite direction. So the police went to the high school and got video from where the high school was, and the video there faces the entrance to the Mornamonte Park and that water pumps station road, so this was the student parking lot road basically where these cameras were. So go into the school.

42:06 The school resource officer was able to pull these videos and they watched them together and sure enough they were able to pick that same vehicle back up around that time, and it goes when you're looking through that camera to the pump station and there were no other vehicles that were there in that timeframe. Then the vehicle, like I said, left again at that exact same four thirty timestamp. It's very faint, but it's easy to recognize once you realize what you're looking at. Another view from another camera of the front entrance of the school, you see the car pass by as it's leaving. So the water department obviously they should have video right well. Their camera faces the road that also passes the gate, and they had one at the end near the shoreline of Lake Michigan. And the video from these water department cameras is chilling, and I wish I had another word to use other than chilling, but it's really what it is because when you're watching, it is so dark. There's waves crashing, okay, and the only light that you can get is from the moon.

43:16 It's just like where a wolf style shit going on. It's just the moonlight. And as you're watching this complete stillness other than the waves crashing and maybe the trees kind of wave a little bit, all of a sudden, you see a figure kind of walking in the darkness. And when you watch it, you can tell it's somebody walking by the cadence. It's very hard to see, but you can tell. So you watch this person and you see him carefully go down the bluff and then turn and then walk off into the distance towards the area where that leg was discovered. The next day, he stays down there until about four fifteen before a sending back up that steve that steep bluff. And I've put that video on Patreon for you some still shots of it, actually because I want you to see this because it is it's bizarre. So there's one shot though, as he's kind of climbing back up the hill that you can tell either this is the fucking hunchback of Notre Dame or he has a big backpack on. So it's dark and it's nighttime, but you can make it out and you realize in that moment that you are watching someone most likely with a backpack full of body parts being transported in the cloak of night. It's just unbelievable when you really assess what you're looking at. So there's another detective on this case, and you'll notice I'm going to tell you a lot of detective names that a lot

44:48 of people worked on this. This guy was Matthew Vandertie. So he did an exigency request with Verizon to get an immediate limited record just basically to see who was Shade talking to. Last exigency just means that it's of great importance. We don't have time for a long drawn out thing. Someone's life or maybe in danger, or something terrible may happen, and so we need some We need information now when we can't wait. So Detective vander Tide did eventually get a warrant for the full records of her phone and her locations, and who she had been talking to before she went missing was obviously of paramount importance and could possibly be cross referenced with video surveillance if they just knew where she had been exactly. So the report came back that Shada had been communicating with the same phone number frequently the night before she went missing.

45:40 So going further back, though, Okay, this number and Shada actually started texting at the end of March. Okay, Sha, DA's now missing a month later in April, but it's not actually a full month because if you look at the dates, it's more like March thirtieth or so. So they were obviously new friends that did not go far back, and it looked, based on the conversation in the texting that they had just met, and she said something to the effect of, hey, love, I forgot my comb. Can you keep it and get it back to me? So if you're saying love to somebody, hey love, then you know you're it's a new thing, but it's a pet term you would say to somebody. And the person responded, of course, no problem, and alluded to the fact that, hey, we'll exchange the comb whenever we meet up again on Sunday.

46:30 So the text recovered between her and the other and that number read exactly as follows. Sha Day said where are we meeting? I can do five like five pm, and that person said, hmm, downtown somewhere. Shade said okay. Then that person said Brat House on Third, which was a restaurant type situation, and Shade said perfect. Then this person said, okay, I'm going to shower first and I need to pick up my W two from the last year at Twisted Fishermen. It'll be more like five point fifteen when I get there. Are you hungry? And Shade said okay, and yes, are we eating at the brad House or the other place. This person then said, let's seat it Twisted. I'm feeling seafood. Shade said yes, I love seafood, and then the person said sounds good. See you soon. That was the last text message that Shade ever sent. Ever So, the Life three sixty data that detectives had from the friends, as well as the records now from a warrant that they got, showed her location specifically, and she did go to the Twisted Fishermen around six thirty.

47:40 Then she went to a place called Duke's on the Water until roughly nine pm. Then she moved to a residential area around twelve forty five am, which would have been April second, and then she went to the area of downtown Milwaukee and then towards this thing called Pleasant Valley or this area called Pleasant Valley Park around one thirty am, which was near the Milwaukee River. So detectives were able through their their searching to identify the owner of that phone number that Shade was texting that night, and that number came back to a thirty three year old guy named Maxwell Anderson. Now a little bit about Maxwell. He is a tall, white male. He's got broad shoulders, a really solid stature, and as you notice, because I said he was thirty three, he was a bit older than the nineteen year old, but he didn't really look it.

48:35 I would have guessed by looking at him, maybe mid to late twenties. His hair was long, just to his shoulders, and it's like dirty blonde, and it definitely gives kind of like a grunge look about him. But it was shaved underneath up to the top of his ears, so he would sometimes pull it up into like a man bun situation, and when he did that, he looked like a biker. So his image kind of changed depending on how he had his hair. He had tattoos on his chest area and up like to his collarbone area, but either way he rocked a full beard that matched his hair color. He had very small blue eyes and a very thin small mouth. So that's just a little bit about what he looked like, but a little bit more about him. He lived in a duplex unit and he rented out the lower unit of the duplex to another guy.

49:29 Looking up in the records of from the DMV, they found that he drove a black SUV and the renter that lived with him drove a black Honda Civic, so they would realize that he was a dog lover. He had two dogs of his own. He had a lab and a pit mix and in that home he had tons of tools. He would constantly be someone that was out working on the house, but the projects never really seemed to finish anything that he started. He kind of seemed to not go back to it and fully complete those projects. He was rough around the edges, but he worked as a bartender. He also worked security at the bars, and he really just his persona fit that when you're assessing what is this guy like? And although he was rough, his managers knew him and felt that he was a well liked guy, a good worker, and they had no complaints about him. Now his record showed. His criminal record showed that his personal life also had kind of a bit of a roughness to it. Also, he had a disorderly conduct and a drunk driving type charges going on.

50:44 So hey, for some that bad boy look and image is attractive. Okay, And hell, y'all, who am I playing with? We all love that, girls, Ladies, you know that we all love the bad boy image. Quit playing with yourself. You know it. Hell, every movie, every damn movie, is the emotionally damaged man that's rough around the edges that saves the girl. Right, give me a damn break. This dude was rough around the edges. Shada was like, hell, yeah, that's a big boy, and she might have been attracted to that. And I'm gonna give her that because I get it, totally get it. Now. Those last messages that were exchanged were in reference to their first date that they had planned for the evening of April first. So, now that sha Da was missing, this guy had some explaining to do. Was he involved in her disappearance or was this some really unfortunate timing for a first date. Well, police were going to look further into this. Now they found that he had attended a few different high schools, and he also had done a brief service in the US Navy that was from April twenty eleven until January twenty twelve. Now, why this service ended very quickly, I don't have the answer for that. I did look, and it's not quite clear from what I can understand why his service was so short. But after that he held down some jobs and he worked at the Twisted Fishermen, which, like you heard in the messages, was where he and shot they were going to go have that first date.

52:13 Other than that, there really wasn't much to him, so they were going to continue to investigate that. But now the autopsy of the leg that was found was underway, So April second was whenever it was a foot, the calf, and the knee of a right leg were looked at by the medical examiner. Now, they estimated that whoever owned this leg was roughly five feet tall, and they also estimated that this leg was likely cut off after death. Why because remember I mentioned there was no bleeding. Well, when your heart stops, your blood stops flowing. And this leg wasn't all bloody like you would really expect one to be. Now, let's talk about the leg, the femur. Okay, it's the strongest bone in the body, and it was broken.

53:04 It was it was snapped, Okay, very very hard to do. Matter of fact, the most common way that someone would break a femur would be a car accident. Because of the extreme amount of force required to break this bone, nobody could, like, for instance, do this by hand. You're not going to snap somebody's leg by hand. If this leg belonged to shah Dah, it looked like she was dead and her leg was cut off after she died. But where was the rest of her? Why was the leg removed? Obviously, these were the questions that were horrifying yet imperative to find out. Well. Luckily, now that we live in a time where people are constantly under surveillance video, police would begin searching for a digital story to take place from cameras in the area of the places that Max and Shade were last known to be on the last night that she was seen alive, and this would begin at the Twisted Fishermen. Now, I want to interject this real quick. This leg was not confirmed to be shad as they would have to do DNA testing, So everything I told you is all that they had at that moment, and this would bring us to the Twisted Fishermen.

54:17 So this is a really really cool establishment too. I looked it up. So the river runs right alongside the restaurant and it's outdoor. It's like all decked. It's got yellow picnic tables, strung lights, a really cool nighttime vibe. I would love to go there and drink a beer, I can tell you right now. And they also have these really cool iglu looking I guess it's a tent, but it's like an iglu looking thing that's over the tables for a more I guess private setting if you're on a date. But also if it was rainy, you could still lead outdoors in these little iglooes and they're kind of clear. I thought it was cool, really relaxing place, So if you're in the area, I'd say go check it out. Looks kind of neat, But speaking of going in checking it out, the owner there was ready and willing to help police with anything that they needed, and so he turned over a surveillance video from the night of Shade and Max's first date, which was at April first, and you'll see on camera at five oh nine pm Max arrives. His hair is pulled back into that man bun.

55:17 He's wearing a car heart t shirt and jeans and he enters the restaurant alone. Now, inside the restaurant, it's a kind of like a sports bar situation. There's these big TVs. There's a big like marlin fish mounted up on the wall. There's a bar full of all the alcohol and all the good stuff. Well, when he walks in, he sits down at the bar next to the bartender because it was empty in there. The bartender was just sitting on a bar stool looking at his phone. Well, when he goes and he sits down next to him, they exchange polite conversation, they handshake, kind of what you would expect, and so he orders a beer, and about twenty minutes later on camera you see shah Day walk in. They sit down and it is super relaxed. They're looking over the menus, they order some food and while they're eating, the entire time they're talking to the bartender and they're really the only people in the restaurant, at least the section that you can see on camera, and at one point all three of them took a shot together behind the bar. So it's super casual, very normal, extremely normal.

56:21 They're chuckling, they're making eye contact with each other while they're talking. Everything you would expect a first date to be. Around six o'clock, they're done eating, and yet Max drinks another beer, so he orders another one. He's drinking it. They're hanging out, and that's whenever he pays the bill good. They're on a first date. He paid for it. It's still light outside, you can tell through the windows, and they continue to talk to the bartender while they're seated there. And it's very obvious by this point when you're watching the video that Max knew the bartender more than just meeting him in the moment when they sat down, because they do a whole lot of chatting and talking, and then they also do another shot together. Now, Shade, I believe waved that shot off. She didn't want it, but the bartender and Max take one. Now. Body language is something that's it just matters to me. I read people a lot through the way that they they move and I watched Max closely in this video, and Max at one point turns his barstool towards Shota, and he is very much listening and pay attention to what she is saying.

57:28 He's very locked in on her while she's talking, and he kind of childishly twists back and forth in the barstool while he's while they're chatting. Then after a little while, they put on their coats and they say they're goodbyes to the bartender. Shote even shook his hand and said nice to meet you. And the two left there around six thirty pm, so following them on camera, the couple then moves to a place called Duke's on the Water, which is located in a bar district, so to speak. They arrived together in Shade's car. She was dry, they got out, they walk across this multiple lanes of highway to Dukes and then they're they're seen on camera walking down the street and again I'm watching body language. Max takes his hand and he puts it down on her lower back as they're crossing all of these roads, kind of escorting her across these crosswalks safely. They enter the bar and Max leads the way to the very far end of the bar, specifically the last two chairs, and everything again relaxed and chill, and I watched all of this surveillance video, all of it. They order a drink, and Max would drink more drinks throughout their time at the bar, like if we were going one for one.

58:42 He's definitely out drinking her. They played a dice game with these other patrons that were there. Shot a just kind of watched. But at one point she gets up and she goes to the jukebox with another female and I guess they played some music, and then they played beer pong, which really I think it was water pong, but they're on a table against another couple. They're all high fiving. It's literally just a cool, fun night. But I would be hard pressed to think that Max wasn't intoxicated, okay, just on the sole number of drinks that he drank. He wasn't fall down on drunk or anything. But he's drinking a lot okay while they're there. He even goes out for a smoke break at one point, totally composed. In total, the couple stayed for about two and a half hours at that bar, so we know she's still alive around nine pm. That's when they decided to leave.

59:33 Now it's dark outside at this point, and you watch them on camera turn and go the same way they came, walking to Shade's car. She gets in the driver's seat, he gets in the passenger seat. They drive off, but after that, no one knew what happened. Well, the Life three sixty app again was going to come into play at this point because that did show their movements where cameras did not, and they ended up in an area very close to where Maxwell Robinson was believed to live. Now I say very close because again it's it's not spot on, one hundred percent science, it's just giving a general area based on towers. So based on the area and the location and the fact that Shade still had not been found, police were able to get a search warrant for Max's home, and based on the violence that was potentially affected on Shade by Max if that was her leg, the SWAT team was used to make entry to this home. I mean, shit, y'all, I mean a whole leg was found. Someone cut the damn thing off, so it would be much better safe than sorry, And that's why I don't think it was overkilled whenever they brought in the SWAT team. Now, unfortunately for his roommate, this would be a bit traumatizing. It's so important that you vet the people you know that you're gonna pay to be a roommate with, because as the SWAT team stormed that home, this poor guy was asleep and pulled from his bed in nothing but his underwear at gunpoint, handcuffed and drug out of the house, not knowing what

1:01:04 the fuck was going on. So at this point though, everybody was a suspect, and this definitely included the renter of Maxwell's lower unit. Max, though was not home, So at this point detectives begin their investigation and they search the home looking for anything that may point them in the direction of Shai Dai. Now, this home was really like three stories, even though it didn't look like it. There was an upper, a lower, and then there was a basement. The exterior absolutely nothing fancy. It's kind of this blaw tan brick and there was no landscaping, no curb appeal really, but it just kind of looked like two single guys lived there. The upstairs area was full of furniture. It had like this red couch an armwaffull of liquor. The room had decorations that kind of reminded me of someone maybe who traveled a bit. There was like a wooden zebra head on the wall. There was a big axe that looked like old type of weaponry.

1:02:06 Lots of small planted plants, knives and sheaths, but they were kind of weird. I want to tell you about this. The knives weren't just knives and sheaths. They had shriveled up dead chicken heads on the end of them. And I have pictures of them because you're going to want to see this, go look at them on Patreon. But it was kind of gross and creepy. And that aside, there were that's where Max stayed, was up in that upper part, and he had sown like his cargo pants to his couch and used it as like a tool holder over the arm of the couch. Lots of knife sharpeners. They had found over fifty two knives in the kitchen, and considering Shota's leg had been cut off, or at least they believed it was, all of this could have been potential evidence. The furniture was really mixmatched and there were knives inom But just because someone likes knives, this doesn't mean that they hurt people. And I want to be very clear about that. Right now there's a knife collector going, oh, don't hurt people. I got that, I got you. I'm just telling you what was there. It does, however, make this a CSI nightmare as far as testing all of these knives to see if maybe they were used in some sort of violence. Now, the basement portion of the home was drab and exactly what you would expect of a basement. It looked dingy and wet. It was more of a storage area than anything. But there was a bed in the basement. It had a makeshift room kind of with hanging curtains, but it wasn't something that

1:03:36 it looked like it was someone's dwelling. It was like just this makeshift bed behind curtains. There were washers and dryers down there, and the roommate said that it smelled horrible because the dogs were all kept down there and would use the bathroom down there from time to time, and so it just was kind of an icky, gross place of the house. When they were searching those dryers, they found the car heart shirt that they saw Maxwell wearing at the Twisted Fishermen, and so they took that to try to see if they could possibly test that for any DNA or something. But meanwhile, Shade's mama, who was just beside herself about her daughter being missing, got a phone call from police saying would you come in.

1:04:20 We would like to get a DNA sample from you, because CSI had taken Shade's toothbrushes and hair brushes from her apartment when they were searching it, but her mother's DNA would really solidify that if that leg had half of her DNA, then this was definitely Shade's leg. So she readily gave that sample. They did a swab in her mouth, but she really prayed her daughter was still intact and maybe that leg wasn't hers. All things considered, you would really rather your daughter's still be missing than in pieces. And that's really difficult to say, but that's the truth. But for now, all she could do was wait and continue to pray that Shade was just safe somewhere. Now, cell phone records were heavily being scrutinized in comparison to one another, meaning Max's and Shade's detectives wanted to see were they together traveling and they would find yes, their phones were always hitting the same towers and moving together.

1:05:14 They left the Twisted Fishermen together, dukes on the water together, and then they did both show up at Max's home area together, but that was until Shade's cell phone battery died. At that point, the towers were no longer able to track her whereabouts. But even then though, Max's cell phone continued to move with Shade's vehicle based on the video obtained in the area of where the vehicle was driving. But you have to understand, this only meant Max's phone was in the car. You don't know, We don't know, police don't know. He could have forgotten his phone in her car. She forgot her comb with him. So just because his phone is in her car doesn't mean that he was. So was Max actually in the car, You couldn't tell. And the video was Shade alone in that car and maybe got kidnapped like at a gas station after she left his house. There was no video to prove one way or an or another how she left the house or what exactly what time I guess she left the house. So based on the video to that point, detectives said, let's go to a walk about of the area of Maxwell's home looking for maybe some evidence, and they even checked in the trash cans, as horrifying as this is to see are there maybe body parts in these trash cans. So it's at this point that I'm going to have to leave you wondering what are they going to find in those trash cans? And until then, make sure you keep an eye on your trash can, because unsecured trash the official buffet of stray animals, nosy neighbors,

1:06:49 and police hell bent on finding shot A. Robinson