ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Nearly two years after her 5-year-old son’s body was found in a suitcase, a woman from Atlanta is set to appear before an Indiana judge for the first time on Tuesday.
Dejaune Anderson faces several charges, including murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death and obstruction of justice. The case dates back to April 2022, when a mushroom hunter in rural southern Indiana found Cairo Jordan’s body inside the hard-shelled suitcase.
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Jordan’s cause of death was ruled to be an electrolyte imbalance, which happens when somebody loses too many fluids. It took police nearly six months to identify the boy.
Dawn Coleman, Anderson’s sister, was arrested in 2022. Coleman agreed to a plea deal for conspiracy to commit murder last year. She’ll be in prison for 25 years and will have to testify against Anderson, according to WAVE 3 News, Atlanta News First’s sister station out of Kentucky and Indiana.
Meanwhile, Anderson was on the run until March 2024. She was arrested near Santa Monica Beach on March 14 and booked in Washington County, Indiana jail on March 31, WAVE reported.
Police believe Anderson killed her son at her home in Louisville, Kentucky. Then she and Coleman allegedly put his body in a suitcase with a Las Vegas logo, drove to Indiana and dumped the suitcase in the woods, according to law enforcement.
In the months before Jordan’s death, Anderson made several social media posts claiming her child was a 100-year-old demon, WAVE 3 News reported.
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