First Date with a Demon: Sade Robinson’s Murder and the Gruesome Trail Across Milwaukee

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A 19-year-old college student goes on a first date… and vanishes. Within hours, a burned car is found smoldering in the night, and body parts begin washing up along Lake Michigan. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield takes you inside the murder of Sade Robinson — the “demon” she met on a first date, the investigation that exposed his brutality, and the trial that brought him to justice.

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0:00.0	You will be dealt with eternally like I stated, but your honor, judge, I'm asking that this demon be respectfully returned back to hell as soon as possible. That's what I'm requesting through the court. Please return him back to hell as soon as possible.
0:19.8	Hi, everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield. This is Drop Dead serious. Every so often, a story comes across my
0:28.2	radar that it just makes me give my head a shake. And then I start to ponder a little bit deeper.
0:35.3	And I ask myself the same question over and over. How many are
0:38.2	out there? How many sadistic and psychopathic killers are out there? Right now, just lurking
0:46.2	and parking lots and on the streets beside your parked car, on jogging trails, around college campuses, in stairwells, in the woods,
0:58.1	maybe behind your home.
1:00.0	I'm looking at you, Brian Coburger.
1:02.0	And maybe most importantly, online.
1:05.9	How many cruel and evil killers are just waiting to pounce.
1:13.8	How many of them are waiting on us unsuspecting innocent victims?
1:20.0	Maybe out in public or maybe right there on your computer screen,
1:23.7	connected to you through the millions of different ways we all connect online. Maybe right there on
1:29.5	your phone. I often wonder how many people are listening to my podcast or watching my shows
1:35.6	and are wondering the same thing that I am until they themselves become victims because I have a
1:42.8	feeling that has happened.
1:48.4	In the decades that I have been covering true crime, how many people have been watching and thinking this happens to other people and suddenly it happened to them.
1:53.7	None of us is immune to true crime.
1:57.1	Maybe it's why we are all so invested in it.
2:02.8	Because we just keep wondering the same thing.
2:04.9	Where is the next killer?
2:06.9	And who is the next victim?
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