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48 Hours

Post Mortem | Sade Robinson and the Secret Beach

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

48 Hours correspondents Natalie Morales and Anne-Marie Green discuss the murder of 19-year-old Sade Robinson, whose partial remains were discovered on a remote beach and scattered throughout Milwaukee, WI. They explore how law enforcement connected Sade to the remains, identified her killer through digital clues, and how her sister is carrying on her legacy.

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0:00.0

Welcome to postmortem. I'm 48 hours correspondent Natalie Morales, filling in for Anne-Marie Green, who is on the other side of the mic to talk about her latest report on the murder of 19-year-old Shadee Robinson.

0:23.9

Thanks for joining me, Ann Marie.

0:25.7

Thanks, Natalie. I'm looking forward to talking about this.

0:28.0

Now, this all started when the Milwaukee Fire Department responded to a vehicle that was set on fire in April of 2024.

0:36.4

Turns out that car belonged to Shadee, but nobody could get a hold of her.

0:41.8

Well, that same day, a body part from an unidentified female washed up on a remote beach on the

0:48.7

Wisconsin shoreline of Lake Michigan. And, Emery, Shade's friends also hadn't heard from her since she went on a date

0:56.2

the night before, right? Yeah. And in fact, it was one of her coworkers at Pizza Shuttle that

1:02.4

really raised the alarm. She was concerned that Shadee hadn't showed up for work. She's such a good

1:06.7

employee. She would never just not show up. She just couldn't let it go and she was the one who

1:11.0

contacted police. Well, good for her for following through with that. And you also talk about in

1:17.5

this hour as we see how much security footage played a part in in helping, you know, police put

1:25.6

the pieces of this puzzle together.

1:28.2

Absolutely.

1:29.2

I mean, I think we all know that there's a lot of, you know,

1:32.8

surveillance cameras around security cameras, ring cameras.

1:37.0

We know that we're on camera a lot.

1:39.0

But in this case, it wasn't just sort of the places that you would expect,

1:42.3

like the lobby of her apartment building.

1:43.9

But that remote area of the park, Wannamart Park, was just, it was remarkable that they even had video from there.

1:52.5

And Chade, in particular, left kind of digital breadcrumbs pretty much everywhere.

1:58.1

And that is part of what led to police honing in on Maxwell Anderson so

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