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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell
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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's
kJ here back. Are you already for your part two
of the Shade Andersen case that I started last week?
I hope so, because I'm about to wrap it up
for you. And the last thing that I told you
was that officers were out and they were walking up
and down Maxwell Anderson's area of his home, and they
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were looking through the trash binds to see could they
possibly find more missing body parts. Well, here was the issue.
The thing was when they started looking the trash had
already been dumped. The cans for the most part, as
they were opening the lids and walking down the street,
they were empty. One can that one officer happened to
open and look in had a hoodie in the bottom
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of it, but nothing that seemed to be of any
evidentiary value of the missing shad a was found during
this walkabout, So the officers didn't even think twice actually
about the hoodie they saw in the bottom of that
trash can until they're briefing the following day, because during
this briefing, it was advised that a possible suspect was
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seen on a bus like a public bus route, leaving
the area of the vehicle fire, and a photo of
the hoodie the suspect was wearing sent a shock through
the officer's spines because the hoodie looked just like the
one he remembered seeing whenever he opened up one of
those trash cans. What stood out to him too, was
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not because I mean, any hoodie could have looked like
a black or a gray hoodie, right, but this one
had a pattern on it and on the side of it,
on one of the arms, there was this like leather
looking patch on the shoulder area, and this had to
be the same one. What are the chances of it
having the same patch on it? So of course officers
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jump in their vehicles and they fly back over there
to go see if they can retrieve that hoodie. They
were able to. That was impressive to me. Not only
did they get the can still, but the hoodie was
still in the bottom. So when they searched the hoodie,
they found that there was actually still little items inside
the pockets, things like a matchbook, There was a key,
d fob, push flashlight, and there also was a really
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small Swiss army knife. So all of this was taken
and collected as possible evidence to see would this link
somehow The person that was riding on the bus to
the missing shot a. Let's go back to Shade's burned
car real quick. It was a common car that she drove,
but it had distinct features the one that she drove. Specifically,
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it had a sun roof, but it also had these
unique tail lights. Whenever you would press the brake and
the tail light would light up, it almost looked like
a sea shape. The letter C a sea shape inside
of it, and this is obviously seen on video, especially
when at night like I said, and the brakes are applied.
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So where the car was burned was in an alleyway,
and like I had said last episode, it's not one
that you'd expect people to be in, nor for cameras
to be there, because it was a rundown abandoned building
that the vehicle was next to. But investigators were able
to find video in none other than a liquor store
that was nearby. Are you not getting a picture here?
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Like a rundown area of town, but there's always one
freaking liquor store where you can go buy your booze.
I guess they go hand in hand. Apparently, I don't know,
but this store did have video, so they pulled that
and sure enough, there is obviously a fire started, which
has to be that vehicle, because you can see the
flames reflecting off of something far off in the distance
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as the fire grows. Also on that video, there are
two women that are walking by and they both stop
and become visibly disturbed because they're shocked at what they're
seeing about this fire. Now, the video did have audio,
and as this is going on, and those women are
kind of like, oh my god, there's a fire, a
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white male walks away from the very area where the
fire started, and he's in that same hoodie that they
had pulled out of a trash can at least visually
at this point it looked like the hoodie and one
of the women yells, he did that, and she's pointing
he did that, called the police. He's wearing a dark
gray hoodie, dark pants, white sold tennis shoes, and a
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large camo backpack. So following video, as this suspect moves
down the block place to place, they see that that
suspect does in fact load a city bus. And when
he gets on and he turns towards where the driver is,
there's a camera on that bus, and there is the
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money shot. His face is readily seen, because while the
hoodie may have blocked his face on street cameras on
that bus, no frickin' way. It was too close and
it was right there on him, and it surely was
a dead ringer for Maxwell. But he's wearing something different
than before, and his hair is done differently too. It's
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no longer in that man bun that he's seen whenever
he's out on the date with shot A. It's down,
but the hoodie is up, and he pays with none
other than cash, as you would have expected. And when
he pulls out his wallet to pay, that wallet starts
looking familiar to He then exits the bus, he takes
the ride, and then he exit the bus just a
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few blocks from where his home was. So police do
what police do, and they now want to start searching
the neighborhood where Maxwell lived to see is there possibly
any cameras from these homes that might catch if that
is in fact Maxwell, catch him walking about that same
time towards the house. So they were able to find
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a ring camera that's set up directly across the street
from Maxwell Anderson's house, and sure enough, as they watch it,
guess who comes walking up into his back door around
eight forty am this same morning That person got off
that bus. He is and that same estimated walk time
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it would have taken from the bus to his house
was validated. They did that, by the way, by pulling
a Google Maps and putting it on the walking versus
a drive and it matched up. Coincidence, I think not so.
Based on everything so far, police say, all right, we
gotta find Max and we've got to have a word
with him. So they knew what Max drove, and they
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knew where he supposedly worked, and so two officers got
into an unmarked squad car and they drove to that
place of business, and they drove around until they found
what they thought was the car. They actually drove by
it twice. On that second time they went by, they
were able to grab the license plate. They ran it,
and they were able to confirm that it was actually
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Maxwell Anderson's. So they set up surveillance across the street
from this business, and they wanted to see where he
went and what he did. Well, at one point he
comes out and he goes to his car, and when
he comes out and goes to his car, he's wearing
a backpack. But it's not the one that was seen
on the surveillance video. Remember that Camo backpack, the one
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that was seen whenever he got on the bus, and
the same one that is believed that it was either
the hunchback of Notre Dame or someone carrying body parts
in a backpack. Remember that one in the video in
the moonlight over by the water pump station. Well it
wasn't that same backpack. So they watched all of this
go on, and then when he got in his vehicle,
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they followed him as he drove in the direction of
his home, and that's whenever they affected a traffic stop.
To stop him and take him into custody before he
got to his house, and they were able to do
this roughly a block before he got home, so they
asked him to get out of the car, step out,
shut it off. When they asked Max, hey, where are
you going, he said, I'm heading to the DMV, which
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was obviously a lie because the DMV wasn't even the
direction that he was driving. The officer also noted that
Max physically looked disheveled whenever he laid eyes on these
police officers as he got out of the car, and
he also noted that he was physically shaking during the conversation,
like the nerves had gotten the best of him. So
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they cuffed him and they placed him under arrest. Once
that occurred, they were able to take his cell phone
into custody and they took the vehicle he was driving
to the station. There they recovered the backpack that he had,
but nothing of any evidentiary value was inside, and it
was determined to not be the same backpack that they
really wanted to get their hands on. They were, however,
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able to get DNA swabs from Max at this time,
as well as take that cell phone and have records
run on that cell phone. So when the lab findings
came in from the warrant swabs and other evidence to date,
including they compared that leg DNA to Chade's mother's DNA
that she gave in that sample. Tragically, the leg was
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confirmed to be that of Shad A. Shade's leg was
the one that they found. This was a mother's worst nightmare,
amplified by the fact that her daughter was not only
likely dead but also in pieces. That thought of having
to be told that sent an emotion through me that
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I don't I couldn't find the human words for this.
Your baby, You know, your baby girl. Someone cut her apart.
Someone took your child, your most precious gift, and dismembered her,
not to mention they killed her. You have no idea
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why this happened, and you have no idea where the
rest of her is. You have your child's leg. Who
does this? It's something you just don't fully grasp. Just
your child's leg has been located. This is something that
you expect to happen as a result of like war
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or combat. We hear that people get blown up, or
their humvy explodes or something. This is not something that
happens to a girl who works at a pizza restaurant
and is going to school. The level of violence isn't
something that we should ever see or hear about, especially
in our neighborhoods. This would mean that if it's true evil,
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true evil lurks amongst all of us, unprovoked evil at that,
because Shada wasn't out running the streets. This meant an
attack on Shadah is an attack on all of us.
And that's why it's so hard to swallow. She's just
a girl. She's literally just a girl. She's nineteen years
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old and now she's and God knows how many pieces,
God knows where. So it's crushing as this news was
to break to her family. They were now left to
mourn on top of wonder what happened and all of that.
But the crime lab had more information that was coming about.
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Shade's burned vehicle had been swabbed in areas that could
possibly still hold DNA and would have likely been touched
by the person responsible for burning the vehicle. They swabbed
the driver's side car door handle. They also swabbed the
trunk and a few other places, and they compared what
they got on those swabs against Max's DNA sample that
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was taken from him. Guess what, it was not a match.
It was not only shad A's DNA was found in
those swabs. So this was a bit of a blow
to the case in that now there was no one
on the hook for possible dumping the car and burning it,
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which really could lead anybody's defense team to if it
got that far, to say, well, obviously he didn't burn
the vehicles, you would have his DNA, You had her DNA,
why don't you have his. It just poked a huge
hole in the theory here that the person who burned
the car likely did something to shot A. So swabs
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were also taken. Remember how Max's home they had affected
that arrest warrant on his home, Well, swabs were also
taken there. There was a plaid jacket kind of like
a sweater jacket type thing in that upstairs living room
that I discussed last episode, and when they swabbed that
this mattered because Shade's DNA was on that jacket, and
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that jacket was in his home, it had her DNA
on it. Specifically, it was located on the inside of
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It turned out that someone had called in to the
police who were out there at the park where Walnam
Up Park where the leg was found. Now this is
days later, but someone called in and said, look, I
don't know if this matters or not, but we just
found three gloves washed up on the beach and they're bloody.
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Do you think maybe y'all should come check this out.
The police are like, hell, yeah, we're on our way.
So it wasn't one or two gloves like a pair,
it was three gloves and they were washed up on
the beach and clearly had floated down and then been
you know, the water had thrown them up on the
rocks and the pebbles. So when they got there, I
don't I didn't plan on telling you this one'mnna tell
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you anyway, The detectives wondered if the gloves could have
possibly been dumped where the leg was found, and made
their way where they were found. So they actually went
over there where the leg was close to the water
pump station and they threw three similar gloves out off
the edge, like into the wind. But it turned out
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to be a total mess of a I guess you
would call that a experiment because it didn't the gloves
blew back. They didn't do what they were supposed to do,
and so it really didn't pan out to tell them much.
But they did take them and those were swabbed. They
all had blood on them, but when they went for
the DNA testing, it was found that none of the
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blood was shot A's, nor was it Max's. They did
find a mixture of three unknown people's DNA, but neither
of the two people that they were looking for. So
other swabs that were done at Max's home were tested too.
So before I tell you about this, if you're following
or you're tracking here, kind of with what the police
are thinking. If he killed shod A and had to
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cut her up, he probably did that at his home.
Wouldn't that be kind of your thoughts? Well, police were
thinking this, so they swabbed the bathtub, anywhere with a
drain really would be where you'd want to look, right
because of blood. So they swabbed the bathtub, his comforter,
the stairwell, everything, everything. They even saw what they thought
to be spatter blood mark, you know, little spatters around
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the home. They swabbed all of that. They sent it
in for the testing. No blood, no zero, of Shade's
was found on any of it. That was wild. Whenever
I found that out. I don't know about you, what
were you expecting. I was expecting me to come back
and say, yep, the blood was there, and you know,
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finish up the story. But I wasn't expected them to
say none of her blood was found. So if Max
had killed Shadeh and dismembered her, this at least would
have put there was blood somewhere. It would have had
to put it in the localized area of where she
was presumptively killed. But zero was just mind blowing. Even
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blood stains that were positive for blood stains that were
on his pillow and on other parts of his bedding
were not hers. They were not hers. She was literally excluded.
So I don't meaning zero percent chance it was her.
I didn't want someone to go well, it could have
been a degraded sample or something like that. No, she
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was excluded as someone that had donated that blood in
that area. So did this mean Max really hadn't done
anything to her, because that seemed impossible considering everything else,
considering the sweatshirt that they see, and he loaded the bus,
he did all these things. Maybe he didn't kill her.
It sure was starting to look that way, at least
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in terms of forensics and DNA. But there were really
no other leads to follow. Max was the last one
to see her alive and the last one documented with her.
So insert now someone who you may find to be
interesting that comes forward, and this is an ex girlfriend
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of Max and her name is Chloe. Now, Chloe had
met Max originally through work and they had dated roughly
two years. She's a little bit shy and so she's
not this like real profound than your face type of
person with information. But when she watched the news and
she saw where that leg had been found and then
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found out that Max was possibly involved in this, she
couldn't ignore it. She contacted them and said, look, there's
an area where Max used to like to take me
all the time. He would take me there and he
called it his quote secret beach. And her thing was
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that Max was very familiar with the place that that
leg was dumped, because that was the secret beach that
he would take her to. So she described Max as
a very private person, but she said it's more than private,
it's almost secretive. And there's a difference between private and secretive.
And she said, I mean, I'm sure you've searched the home,
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but did y'all find the hidden closet in his house
or those hidden shelves? So police were like, wait, what
what do you mean there was there's hidden closets and shelves.
She said, if you go into his bathroom, there's a
secret compartment, like underneath the sink, it looks like it's flush,
but if you pull on there there's a secret compartment
in there to hide things. And in his living room
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did y'all see that huge, that big like entertainment center
thing with all the liquor on it. Yeah, we saw that. Well,
there's a closet behind it. He purposefully hides that closet
with that piece of furniture. So police are like, oh shit, right,
So they go back and trust me when I tell
you that it's not something I think would have jumped
out to you. It blocked behind it. Why would there
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be a hidden door behind Nobody really does that. I
know you're like, well, the police should have looked. Yeah, well,
I don't think police moved every piece of furniture ever
known to mankind, and they certainly didn't expect a door
behind it. So when they went back and they checked,
they pulled out that large piece of furniture, and sure enough,
there was a hidden closet back there. They throw open
the door, hopefully, maybe by the grace of God, shah
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Da could be in there, maybe alive. But they throw
the door open, She's not there. All they found was
some bongs like to smoke weed, some random clothing, and
nothing much else. It was creepy, though, it was very creepy.
Why would you hide a closet? So they were interested
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now in Chloe specifically the Secret Beach, and they said, look,
if we come get you, would you be able to
point us to where the Secret Beach was? And she
says absolutely. So she described the area and detectives went
and picked her up and they drove out to Warnamott Beach.
When they got out, she explained, all right, this is
what we usually would do. There's a Mexican restaurant right
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over there. We normally would go eat at that Mexican
restaurant and then we would come or we would have
drinks whatever and eat, and then we would come over
here and he would walk me through this area. Now
there's a fence over here and it says do not enter,
but we would always squeeze through that fence and then
he would bring me down to this secluded place and
we would sometimes have fires and just hang out there.
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She walked down there, led the police, and then pointed
in the direction of where they usually stayed and they
hung out. Unbeknownst to Chloe, the place that she brought
them was literally the exact place that Shade's leg was found.
Again coincidence, don't think so. It's circumstantial. I'll give you that,
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but it's damning information for someone in no way involved
in this to be able to take police down to
the exact location where a human leg was found. So
police knew they had to be on the right track.
They had to be even though the DNA wasn't lining
up and they weren't finding blood, they had to be right.
So working from the start, let's back up. Police now
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think they went on their date. They went to those
different places and hung out, ate and drank or whatever,
and then they believe that they both went back to
Max's house. This would have been around nine to twenty
four pm. So looking at that ring camera video that
the neighbor across the street from Max's home had, investigators
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really honed in on that night time. Now it is
extremely hard to see. It's very grainy. You can make
it out, but nothing of any specificity, Like I couldn't
tell you who I'm looking at or what I'm looking at,
but you can tell that there are shadows moving about
at the home. You see the two people which are
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gonna be Max and shaw Dah right enter the home.
And when you watch them show up and then walk
into that home, it makes your stomach turn knowing that
she will likely never leave that home alive and on
her own. After that, you just want to scream, run,
Oh my god, girl, run. It's like a train wreck.
All you can do is watch it happen. So they
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go in the house and then the movement continues upstairs,
right in the area of that red leather couch that
I mentioned to you at the beginning and last episode.
It's just silhouettes, but it's very obvious to humans movement
up there, And around nine forty five pm you start
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to see someone come outside and it's in the back
area of the home, but it's only one person's shadow
the entire time. Police do not believe that it could
possibly be Sha Da because remember she was five feet tall.
There's a fence that this person is walking past or
walking along. That fence is six foot tall. She would
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have been way shorter than the fence. This person's head
was about even with the fence the whole time the
person's walking well, Max was six foot one, so they
believe that this is Max. The person then goes inside
for a little bit, then comes back outside again, and
then goes back inside. But at eleven twenty five pm
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you see again that single silhouette go out of the
back gate, and you know this because they're there is
a motion light in the tree that Max had rigged already,
like when he moved in, in a tree that was
right outside of the back gate, and so he had
to go outside of that fence for that motion light
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to light up. Then the person goes back inside the house.
You see the light upstairs go off, and then by
twelve forty five, there is no more movement inside the home,
and there is no more movement outside of the home,
not in the yard anywhere. Then at twelve forty seven,
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which would be about two minutes later, you see on
other cameras further down the road, Shade's car drives off
and there is no movement at that house again until
five forty am. And that's when you see the renter
that Maxwell rented to. He steps outside and he smokes
a cigarette and then he leaves for work. And that's
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exactly what he said. He got up, he smoked a cigarette,
and then he left for work shortly around six o'clock.
So this means shah De was in the home or
she's dead, because only one person walked away from that
home that night, and that person was too tall to
be her. Plus her car was gone now, so investigators
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now started to follow that car away, follow that path
from twelve forty five to four forty am. They watch
as her car and her phone go downtown. Now how
do I know this because this was confirmed on a
license plate reader off the interstate and then it made
a couple of stops before it exited and it turned
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towards Warnamont Park. Video from that water department showed Chade's
vehicle enter the park and that service road at two
fifty three am, and then it stayed there for about
an hour and a half. And that, by the way,
is the same time that the gate was smashed, and
then shortly thereafter is when that silhouette is seen going
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down the bluff. The leg would be found later the
next evening. The car then left the park around four
thirty am, and that's whenever Shade's phone goes off the network,
because her cell phone died as the vehicle started to
head back downtown. So the phone records, combined with surveillance
footage of the area, shows that Shade's vehicle arrived back
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in the and then backed into that alleyway because they
were able to find a camera and you can watch
the car pull up and then back into the alleyway.
Obviously it's set on fire. And then the man in
the hoodie walks off around seven twenty nine am, following
the man on the hoodie that takes them to that
public bus where they see and they're like, that's Max.
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And this he jumps on the bus by the way,
just five blocks from where the vehicle started burning, so
to say that he just randomly got on this bus
by chance and it was nearby. No way. His face
was caught clearly on the bus too, and he's also
sporting that large backpack much like the shadowy figure was
going down that burn. The hoodie and the leather patch
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later found in the trash can, he's clearly wearing it.
He then exits the bus and ends up on all
those cameras walking up to his house at the exact
same time that it would have taken for him to
walk from the bus. The leg was found later on,
and that's when Shade was reported missing. But again, y'all,
where is the rest of her? They thought they had
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the plan of what happened, but where was she? Well?
Just a few days later in a nearby park with
a playground, a new discovery was uncovered. Now this is
not Warnamut Park, This is like a kid's playpark. There's
this park and then there's retaining walls on this sides
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where if you look down the retaining wall or over
the retaining wall, there's railroad tracks that run up and
down that roadway or that trackway. So it was believed
that the killer must have walked along that path at
some point because police got a call to show up
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to that park because body parts had been recovered in
that park. So what did they find there? Police found
chunks of flesh chunks, And now you're like, well, what
does a chunk mean. It was roughly a six by
six inch chunk of flesh, as well as another smaller
I think it was a two by two inch piece
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of flesh. But it was a brown skinned person. So
it doesn't take a rocket scientist to say, okay, we've
got a leg and now we've got chunks of skin.
They're probably related. Now, this tissue also included the fatty
underlayer of the skin. So police start looking around. They're like,
we're not just gonna randomly find these chunks of skin
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and as they look around, they end up finding a
whole human foot nearby. Guess what color polish was on
that foot? You know it? Pink toenail polish was on
this foot that matched the leg that we now know
was shod as So when the medical examiner showed up
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took custody of the foot, it was determined that this
was the left foot and it had been cut off,
but not through the bone. It was cut through the joint. Okay,
so you're kind of getting the picture. It was just
the foot. And if this wasn't bad enough, okay, that
we just found a chunks of skin and a foot
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in a park where kids play. This next part is
just creepy as fuck to me. But while they were
canvassing that area to say, okay, are there more body
parts that we might find nearby, they also found a
couple of other things. They found a used condom, I'm
not shocked by that. The thing that kind of got
me going, oh my god, was there was a doll
screwed to a tree through its eyes. They also found
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a burlap sack that smelled like death and when they
opened it up there was a dead dog inside of it.
And they also found some spent bullet casings. Now none
were found. None of this was found to be of
any relevance to the ongoing case with shot a but
a dead dog, condoms and dolls screwed to trees, Like,
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what is going on in this area? And now we
have a foot in chunks of flesh. It's a scary
ass park. So as far as the doll goes, I
wanted to know more about that. Investigators found that there
was a homeless encampment nearby, and this is something that
they practice as it's supposed to give protection, supposedly somehow,
and I do have pictures of that again, I'll put
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them on Patreon for you so you can see it.
But a doll screwed through the eyes to a tree.
So the foot was sent to the Medical Examiner's office
to now be reunited with Shade's other leg. And when
they searched the video near that park and the train tracks,
police did identify a piece of video that showed the
man with the booksack going towards that area. So I
guess what we're picking up here is that he's walking
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around town with a booksack full of body parts and
dispersing them as he wanted, Like, how sadistic? How confident
do you have to be to know you're carrying around
pieces of someone on your back and then just dropping
them off as you see fit, dump the whole thing.
You just drop it along the way with no clue
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who may stumble upon it, and a kid's park. It's
just sick. So Max's cell phone, remember it had been
sent off so that they could get some more information
of the contents of that phone. This would now come
into play and be very important because there would be
a bunch of photos in there. But there was a
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series of roughly ten that were pretty jarring for obvious reasons.
They were images of shot A. But they're not of
her smiling or hugging, or playing beer pong or anything
like that. No, she seems to be incapacitated, and she's
laying face down on a red leather piece of something. Well,
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investigators knew right away that that was that couch that
was upstairs. They had photographed it during the search worn
of the home, and as they swipe through these photos
they become more and more sickening. She's face down on
the couch in those ripped jeans and the nude colored
underwear can be seen, and her positioning. I want to
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be clear here, her positioning is nothing like a sleeping
person or someone resting would be in It looked like
she was dead. She was dead weight on the couch,
face down. Well. The next photo was a screenshot of
some sort which was timed at eleven twenty eight pm.
If you're following the timeline, and it was a screenshot
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and it said what not to mix with bleach, and
then it makes your mind wonder is this a cleanup
tutorial or something like? Why is he taking a picture
of her face on the couch and then screenshotting what
not to mix with bleach. The next photo is a
close up of her jeans and her underwear. They're clearly
still on her body, but they are now pulled down
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and her bare buttocks is exposed. The next photo is
very up close. It's almost pixelated. It's so up close,
but you can tell that there's a hand grabbing something,
but it's unable to be made out what exactly it's
grabbing until they swipe to the next photo, and that
photo's further back and much more clear shot. Day is
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still in her white cablenit sweater that she was seen
on CA came on the date and she's face down still,
but her right breast is fully exposed, and that close
up that couldn't be made out was now obvious of
a white person's hand grabbing and squeezing that exposed breast.
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There were now more photos of her nude buttocks showing
what the underwear uh pulled down and in every photo
she remains face down. It is completely unnatural And just
so you know, it's not like an erotic type of
photo and like they were doing fun or being crazy
taking pictures. That is not what this is. It was
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not fun for both of them, I promise you. And
you know unnatural when you see it. Guys, you know
unnatural when you see it. The corner of one picture
captured the edge of a brown ottoman that was right
next to the couch and a blue pillow from his apartment.
So it was becoming pretty clear where Sha Da had
met her demise. That clothing she was wearing was also
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that same clothing that was found in the trunk of
her burning car. Completely remember how I told you rolled
inside out, Well, it was starting to make sense because
the photos are exposing her as they're being pulled down.
You put two and two together. The photos also had
been modified in the extraction report, and I don't mean
as in cropped, okay, I mean as in deleted. He
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did not want these photos found. But there were also
photos that were seemingly normal mixed in there, like one
of his dogs running on the beach. But that was
until investigators really looked at it and they realized this
isn't just the dogs running on the beach. No, these
are the dogs running on the beach taken right where
Shade's leg had been found. And it wasn't nighttime, it
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was daytime. So this was done sometimes presumptively after this
had happened. So when the news broke of the finding
of a human body part in that park, shot at
family was not waiting. You didn't have to tell them
a thing. They were figuring this out and they wanted
to do something useful, even if it was for their
own sanity. They wanted to go try to help. So
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her family started this like search party to go look
over the park themselves now that the police were gone
and it had made the news. And soon after they
got there and they spread out to start searching. Would
you know that they found something that looked really familiar.
It was a blanket and it looked familiar to them,
and they called police and were like, you need to
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come back out. There's this blanket. We believe it's Sha Das.
You know, y'all know she's missing. YadA, YadA, YadA. Well,
the police come back out. There was trash everywhere, y'all,
and bless their hearts, they're trying to help solve whatever
happened to her. But unknown to the family at that time,
when the police got there, the blanket they found that
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they thought was hers was in the exact same spot
where the foot had been recovered that night before. So
the blanket, it was cold and it was wet, and
it was from laying on the ground the night the
police searched. But like I said, there was a lot
of trash in the area, so for it not to
have been seen, I find was reasonable, although I'm certain
disheartening when it's your own child's murder that you're trying
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to get solved here. But when they picked up that
blanket and opened it up, guess what was on it.
Shade's face as well as a picture of her dog.
This was her blanket. They were right. The family was right.
It was hers. There was no doubt it was hers.
And it had been discarded apparently with the foot, just
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like Shade had been her things just discarded out in
that area. Well as nature would have it. She does
what she does, and the water of Lake Michigan would
continue to reveal pieces of Shade to unsuspecting people of
the area. On April twelfth, Shade's right arm washed ashore.
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So this is horrifying. If you ask me, I wouldn't
want to out at that beach with these pieces of
a person washing up. But an officer drove there. He
had to get on an ATV to get to the
spot where this arm was seen, and sure enough, it
was her arm. It was badly decomposed and it was
looking like it had washed ashore, like it maybe had
been dumped off in the water. It was kind of
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under some sand or in some sand, underneath a log.
It was in a different county than the other parts
of shah Day had been found, a different county. The
water had washed it that far. It had some damage
to it too. There was damage to the forearm. But
when the medical examiner looked at it, they were like, nope,
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This wasn't from a beating or anything that's animal activity.
It wasn't trauma from dismemberment. Then six days later, on
April eighteenth, the headless, armless, and legless torso of Sha
Dah also washed ashore. Now the right breast had been
cut off of this torso. It was gone. This torso
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was seriously decomposed, and it was obvious that the head
had been intentionally decapitated, because the entire neck was gone
as well as the head. And it's bad enough to
know that your child was murdered, but now this poor
family just keeps having to be updated that we found
this piece of her and that she's it's just stomach turning.
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Just how much pain do you think they were in
to be updated? Weeks are going by and oh, we
found your daughter's stomach. Oh, we found your daughter's foot.
Oh I just I cannot for these people. But toxicology
testing was done on the parts as they were coming
in and as they were being received. There was still
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fluid inside the heart of that torso and they were
able to draw that out. Now it was mixed, obviously
with the water of Lake Michigan, but they were able
to do some toxicology testing to see maybe was she drugged?
Was she something that chemically we could find out, But
the only substance detected in her body was caffeine, nothing else,
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So she wasn't high or drunk or overdosed as far
as the science was showing when she was killed. So
doctors now had the task of taking all of these
body parts, putting them together, and trying to rebuild her
on a table. The ankle of the foot matched the
leg portion, and the pieces were really badly starting to
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decompose by this point, so this just wasn't a job
for the week. The torso was examined by the Medical
Examiner's office, and again it was a very very poor condition.
And I hate to be this graphic, but this is
what they were dealing with at this time. The tissue
of the back had been exposed to the air while
it was floating in the water, so the back was
really dried out and leathery, and the front was really
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slothy because of the water and animals, you know, doing
what they do. But the chest, abdomen, and pelvis with
the left arm was still attached. The entire neck was gone,
Like I told you, the throat was gone and her
breast was missing, but there were also two wounds that
looked to be stabbing wounds to the chest. There were
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seven total insize or stabbing wounds in that area. The
middle lobe of the right long did have a defect
on it as well, but because of the decomp they
were unable to determine what caused that. If it was
from the stab wound, sha Day would have immediately been
in immense amounts of pain, plus she would have been
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unable to breathe effectively. This is per the doctor explaining this,
She would not have been able to inflate her long,
She would have been in a ton of pain, and
she would have bled horrifically. If there were no medical care,
death would have been without call. I mean it was
going to happen. There was no way that she would
have avoided it. All of the trauma too was seen
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to the right side of her body. But the doctor
also said, look, the joints could have been more easily
removed with just a knife rather than some huge piece
of machinery or something, because you're cutting through joints, not
through the bone. The only thing that could be identified
as absolutely Shade was that she had a bird tattoo
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on her right shoulder, and that tattoo was still visible
and a reminder that this piece of a person used
to be alive and well and adventurous and well loved
by her family. So they never were able to recover
Shade's head or her neck, so whether she had had
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trauma would just be unknown. Strangulation was obviously a very
possible cause of death, as was blunt force trauma, but
all of this would have to be left to speculation
because they had nothing to look at. Overall, though no
substances caused her death, nor did she have any deadly
natural deformities or illnesses or anything like that, Shaida had
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absolutely been murdered and then cut apart to be disposed of,
and no bullets were recovered, So what that told doctors
was that this was extremely brutal and very hands on
what had happened to her. And what was so unsettling
to me, if all of this hasn't bad enough, was
that it never occurred to me that body parts could
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be found in different jurisdictions. But the water doesn't care.
Nature does what it does. So when Shade's arm washed ashore,
it had crossed a jurisdictional boundary, so it couldn't even
be returned to be with the rest of her until
paperwork was done and it was released. And I know
that's minor in the big scheme of things, but Dawn,
I mean, it just hurt my heart that this girl
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was found in different fricking jurisdictions over a three month period.
It's just unnatural. It's unjust, and it's just unfair. And
this poor mama and this family, they just they just
hold them in my heart while I'm understanding how of
this went. So with everything now coming together, police knew
that their case was solid and they had what they
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needed to take down the son of a bitch and
they were going to do it. So now a little
more insight to Maxwell Anderson in terms of a record,
because this information that I'm about to give you will
also be white so important to vet people and to
teach our young girls what red flags look like. So
I told you that he had like a drunk driving
and a disorderly conduct. Right, Well, let's look a little
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deeper into this because in twenty fourteen, his own family
had called police because they said that he was acting
erratic when police got there, if you look at the
report of what happened. He then stole a relative's car
and crashed it, and then he got in a fight
with another relative, which resulted in broken ribs for the
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relative and a broken collarbone for Max. So to say
that he's not violent, I think that kind of disproves
that belief. Then in twenty fifteen, another relative had him
living in their home basement, but they got frustrated with
him because he just wouldn't follow the rules and they
felt like he might be abusing drugs. So they suggested, look,
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maybe you need to seek some mental health counseling or
some help. Well, when that happened, he went into an
all out craze. He threw the glass that he was holding,
shattered it. He punched a hole in their sheet rock,
He went berserk. He grabbed two cell phones that they
own and smashed those. So the police are called during
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all of this, they show up. He caused roughly thirteen
hundred dollars in damages to the home because all they
did was say, maybe you need some mental health help.
In twenty fifteen, again he got another charge. This one
was criminal damage to property and intimidation of a witness
because there was domestic abuse, So guess what he got
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for this domestic abuse and witness intimidation and criminal dam
much to property. Guess what he got for that probation?
He got probation for a year and he had to
pay a few court fines. Then in twenty nineteen, he
and a random woman got into an argument and it
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was so bad that a random witness felt like he
needed to get involved in intervened because of what was
going on between these two people. And that's when Max
commenced to beating the fucking breaks off of this man
that was just trying to intervene and keep the woman safe.
All of it was caught on surveillance video, all of it.
So what happened when he went to court, I'm glad
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you asked. The charges for battery in this incident were dismissed,
completely dismissed, and all he had to plead guilty to
was disorderly conduct. Remember that original charge I told you about. No,
there was more to it, It was just dismissed. He
had to pay seven thousand dollars in restitution for the
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I guess the medical bills for that guy. And he
also was told you also need to submit to drug
testing and do twenty five hours of community service. So
nothing has happened to him so far for those two
incidents as nothing. In twenty twenty two, he was pulled
over for driving seventy and a thirty and he blew
a point one four to five on a breathalyzer as
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well as had an open container in his vehicle. And
by the way, this was his second drunk driving offense.
Second and you know what he got for that, drum roll, please,
probation and a three hundred and fifty dollars fine. Fucking probation.
And as someone who has a friend whose daughter was
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killed in the last few years by a drunk driver,
I take complete and total offense to that, a second offense, DWI,
and you get probation after all the other shit I
just told you. But wait, there's more. He was on
probation and when he did his drug testing he tested
positive for cocaine, THHC and alcohol while he was being watched.
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So guess what they did. They released him from probation,
saying he successfully completed the program. What planet are we
living on right now? That that is that's our justice system,
that's court, the courts and parole officers need to do
their damn job and throw the book at people like this.
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And I'm not down in everybody. We have a lot
of good people that work in probation and parole. We
have amazing judges out there and amazing court people. But
this is proof that some are really really lacking in
what they're supposed to be doing. Here harsher penalties, y'all,
I'm all for them. A totality of the problems that
Maxwell Anderson displayed showed what he was capable of and
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when given probation and community service, no wonder. People don't
care about punishments. And look where it got nineteen year
old shade. Look where it got that girl. Our system
needs improvement. In this case is just another example of
why leniency is no good. Maxwell Anderson was formally charged
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with first degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse, arson,
and hiding a corpse, and in April twenty two of
twenty twenty four, Maxwell Anderson incredibly pled not guilty. When
this occurred, and with my total respect, prosecutors turned around
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and said, all right, you can plead not guilty, but
we will stand firm in the fact we will never
offer you a plea deal. Never. Maybe they should have
been the ones that took on a coburger case, because
that's the kind of prosecute and I need. Right there,
They said, you can plead what you want, we will
not offer you a plea deal if you plead not guilty.
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So on June sixth of twenty twenty five, a jury
of Maxwell Anderson's peers found him guilty on all charges,
and now he faces a mandatory life sentence when his
final sentencing is scheduled to be handed down on none
other than my birthday, August fifteenth of this year. So
I guess we shall see what he gets. But there
you have it, another tragic chapter in the never ending
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saga of our catch and release justice system. It's not
right violent offenders walk free again and again, thanks to
the soft hearted compassion of a system more worried about
second chances for offenders than first time victims. And what
did that leniency by us? This time? A young girl's
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body bag. So to the courts and the apologists, the enablers,
and the soft spine cowards pretending to wear halos, her
blood is on your hands and it does not want
sh off with good intentions, Hugga thug programs don't work
because predators don't need hugs. They need cages.