The mom of a 5-year-old boy, who was discovered lifeless in a suitcase practically two years in the past in Indiana, was arrested in Arcadia in connection together with his homicide, in keeping with authorities.
Dejaune L. Anderson was arrested Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service on allegations of homicide, neglect of a dependent leading to dying and obstruction of justice, Indiana State Police Sgt. Carey Huls informed The Occasions.
Authorities had been tipped off by a “involved citizen,” and Anderson was detained whereas making an attempt to board a practice, Huls mentioned. He declined to specify additional how authorities had been tipped off.
On April 16, 2022, a person looking for mushrooms in a wooded, rural space of Washington County, Indiana, discovered the physique of a 5-year-old boy in a brightly coloured suitcase, officers mentioned. The boy was recognized six months later as Cairo Jordan, an Atlanta resident.
Dejaune Ludie Anderson in a Georgia DMV photograph.
(Indiana State Police / AP)
An arrest warrant was issued for Anderson in October 2022, however the boy’s mom had been on the run ever since.
Investigators from Sellersburg, Ind., had been in Southern California over the weekend to attempt to converse to Anderson and to proceed their investigation, in keeping with Huls. Anderson has a courtroom listening to Monday; the extradition course of will rely on how she pleads. If she doesn’t struggle the extradition, officers from Indiana may choose her up within the subsequent week or two.
“If she fights extradition, then it’ll be on the mercy of California courts for it to play out,” Huls mentioned. “A governor’s warrant would most likely be requested and courtroom system should work that out. It’ll be a minimum of a month till that course of will get began.”
Anderson is initially from the Atlanta space and isn’t a resident of Indiana, Huls mentioned. She has no recognized connection to Southern California.
Anderson’s buddy Daybreak Elaine Coleman, 41, of Shreveport, La., was sentenced to 30 years in jail with 5 years suspended to probation in reference to Cairo’s dying after reaching a take care of prosecutors in November.
Coleman pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit homicide, aiding, neglect of a dependent leading to dying and obstruction of justice, in keeping with authorities.
Coleman and Anderson had recognized one another for a few yr and traveled along with Cairo; that they had been staying in a residence in Louisville on the time of the boy’s dying, in keeping with police.
Coleman informed police that she noticed Anderson smothering Cairo by sitting on prime of him when he was face-down on a mattress, in keeping with courtroom information. Coleman mentioned “it was already achieved” by the point she walked into the room and that Anderson requested her to assist put Cairo inside a trash bag after which a suitcase. They drove Cairo’s physique to Washington County and left him there within the suitcase, she mentioned.
Each Coleman’s and Anderson’s fingerprints had been discovered on the plastic luggage that contained Cairo’s physique contained in the suitcase, investigators mentioned.
In accordance with a possible trigger affidavit filed by the Indiana State Police for Anderson’s arrest, Anderson allegedly made references to exorcism and demonic possession relating to her 5-year-old son in Fb posts in March 2022.
“Can’t wait to inform my story: I needed to elevate my frequency, heal myself and previous lives, heal my ancestors, heal s— within the universe, heal Gaia to exorcism a really highly effective demonic drive from inside my son,” she wrote, in keeping with the affidavit.
Coleman posted related messages on Fb in April 2022, in keeping with the affidavit:
“Simply because the avatar is of what we name a baby doesn’t imply that it’s truly a baby there are beings which are right here that aren’t alleged to be right here that choose avatars to cover behind to play roles to steal power and to damage lives you higher examine to see if the youngsters that you just suppose are kids even have souls or in the event that they’re not melevolent [sic] beings with a soul and in a baby Avatar.”
The boy died from an electrolyte imbalance most certainly because of gastroenteritis, or vomiting and diarrhea that led to dehydration, in keeping with Indiana State Police, citing post-mortem outcomes. The boy had died every week earlier than his physique was discovered.
