The mother of a 5-year-old kid, whose body was discovered in a suitcase in Indiana in 2022, was arrested in Arcadia on Thursday, March 15.
Sgt. Carey Huls, an Indiana State Police spokesman, said investigators from Sellersburg were on their way to Southern California on Friday to pick up Dejaune L. Anderson, who was arrested by the US Marshals Service on a warrant charging him with murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice.
Anderson, an Atlanta native, was captured as she tried to board a passenger train.
Huls stated that Anderson has no known link to Southern California. Police said a concerned individual alerted detectives to her whereabouts. Huls declined to elaborate.
The investigation into the boy’s death began in April 2022, when a guy harvesting mushrooms discovered a suitcase in a highly wooded area of rural Washington County, Indiana, according to the Indiana State Police. The suitcase held the body of Cairo Jordan, who had gone undetected for six months.
According to court records, Anderson wrote on Facebook on March 18, 2022, “I can’t wait to tell this story.” About the exorcism. A book about living with a demon child. Spectrum News 1 in Kentucky reports that there is also a podcast.
Dawn Elaine Coleman, an Anderson friend from Shreveport, Louisiana, told police she observed Anderson sitting on top of Cairo on a bed. Court records indicate that he was smothered. Coleman then assisted Anderson with the disposal of the body. Coleman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in November and received a 30-year sentence, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Cairo was buried in a nearby cemetery before being identified. His headstone at the time said, “In loving memory of a beloved little boy known but to God,” according to the Courier-Journal.