Jury sees inside Maxwell Anderson's home on day 6 of murder trial

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Day six of the Maxwell Anderson murder trial took jurors inside his home, with dozens of photos. The prosecution also introduced new physical evidence that had not yet been made public. 

The new evidence was bloody rubber or latex gloves. Several days after Sade Robinson's first body parts were recovered, gloves were found on the beach near Warnimont Park. 

Someone walking the beach saw them and called authorities. 

A detective who responded took the stand Tuesday morning, June 3, and explained the gloves had blood on them. The state asked him if they were left there or could have blown there on accident; he said he believes they were left there. 

In addition to that testimony, we saw more surveillance video from Duke's on Water that showed Robinson and Anderson together. 

Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Ian Vance-Curzan: "Is that the last time you saw Sade Robinson on video?"

Milwaukee Police Department Detective Jake Puschnig: "Yes." 

Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Ian Vance-Curzan: "Does that suggest something nefarious happened?" 

Milwaukee Police Department Detective Jake Puschnig: "Yes." 

After that, the state introduced dozens of photos of Anderson's residence. They were taken at regular intervals, essentially walking people through a tour of the property: the backyard, garage, basement, and Anderson's upstairs residence. 

Anderson was attentive throughout, watching the photos along with the jury. 

Investigators noted there were several knives in the residence, as well as a firearm. 

Nothing of evidentiary value was found in the garage. 

In the basement, they showed the tool bench work area, and a makeshift bedroom Anderson had set up. They also found in the dryer the shirt Anderson was wearing on security video the night Robinson went missing. But the majority of the photos were from upstairs, where Anderson lived. 

They showed Anderson's red plaid jacket that was worn the night Robinson disappeared. 

Tuesday afternoon, the jury saw Anderson's sweatshirt for the first time. 

Anderson wore a black zip-up hooded sweatshirt on the bus the morning after Robinson went missing. But the defense is already poking holes in it. 

For more than a year, that sweatshirt was thought to be lost, even though some law enforcement witnesses testified in the trial they did not know where it was. 

Tuesday, a Milwaukee Police Department cold case detective said he and a partner walked the alley behind Anderson's home several days after he was taken into custody. 

He said they were checking garbage cans for any evidence, flipping lids to see if anything was inside. He remembered seeing something in a neighbor's can two doors down from Anderson's home, but did not think anything of it at the time. 

After seeing photos of Anderson on the bus two days later, he returned and found the sweatshirt. It was photographed and catalogued. Then they checked the pockets. 

“When I recovered it, I could feel objects in the pockets. I did not take them out until we got down to our building with the sweatshirt. As I was putting the sweatshirt into this brown bag, a book of pocket matches came out of the upper left, chest pocket," said Milwaukee Police Department Detective Vincent Lopez. 

On cross examination, the defense said there is no video of Anderson or anyone else throwing the jacket away, there had been two garbage pickups from when Robinson went missing to when it was found, and Anderson's home was no longer a secure site at the time.

Some of the most compelling video evidence played for the jury shows Anderson and Sade Robinson arriving at his home the night she was last seen alive. 

The video came from a neighbor's security system directly across the street from Maxwell Anderson's home. 

Prosecutors believe Anderson and Robinson got to his home at 9:24 p.m. April 1 and left at about 12:45 a.m. April 2, three hours and 21 minutes later. It's nighttime video, and jurors watched every single clip that showed movement. 

The videos begin with Sade's car driving past Anderson's home toward an alley that leads back to his garage. Anderson's back gate opens at 9:24 p.m.; two minutes later, Anderson's living room light turns on. 

For the remainder of the clips, there is off-and-on movement from upstairs, the side entrance, and the back gate that leads to the alley. 

Before they started playing the videos, the judge made sure all jurors could see and asked them to move closer if they could not. 

Milwaukee attorney Justin Padway joined us Tuesday night to dive deeper into what happened in court. 

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