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 line with authorities.
Dejaune L. Anderson was arrested Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service on allegations of homicide, neglect of a dependent leading to demise and obstruction of justice, Indiana State Police Sgt. Carey Huls advised The Occasions.
Authorities had been tipped off by a “involved citizen,” and Anderson was detained whereas making an attempt to board a prepare, Huls stated. He declined to specify additional how authorities had been tipped off.
On April 16, 2022, a person trying to find 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 stated. 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 communicate to Anderson and to proceed their investigation, in line with Huls. Anderson has a courtroom listening to Monday; the extradition course of will rely on how she pleads. If she doesn’t battle 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 stated. “A governor’s warrant would in all probability be requested and courtroom system should work that out. It’ll be at the least a month till that course of will get began.”
Anderson is initially from the Atlanta space and isn’t a resident of Indiana, Huls stated. 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 demise after reaching a cope with prosecutors in November.
Coleman pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit homicide, aiding, neglect of a dependent leading to demise and obstruction of justice, in line with authorities.
Coleman and Anderson had recognized one another for a couple of yr and traveled along with Cairo; that they had been staying in a residence in Louisville on the time of the boy’s demise, in line with police.
Coleman advised police that she noticed Anderson smothering Cairo by sitting on prime of him when he was face-down on a mattress, in line with courtroom information. Coleman stated “it was already performed” 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 stated.
Each Coleman’s and Anderson’s fingerprints had been discovered on the plastic luggage that contained Cairo’s physique contained in the suitcase, investigators stated.
Based on 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 power from inside my son,” she wrote, in line with the affidavit.
Coleman posted comparable messages on Fb in April 2022, in line 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 can be right here that aren’t presupposed to be right here that choose avatars to cover behind to play roles to steal power and to destroy lives you higher verify to see if the youngsters that you just assume are youngsters 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 definitely resulting from gastroenteritis, or vomiting and diarrhea that led to dehydration, in line with Indiana State Police, citing post-mortem outcomes. The boy had died per week earlier than his physique was discovered.