Black Woman Suspected of Brutally Murdering 5-Year-Old Son Finally Found
A woman suspected of murdering her son was captured after being on the run for nearly a year and a half.
Dejaune Anderson was arrested in Arcadia, Calif. March 14 after an Indiana State Police detective received information about her whereabouts from a concerned citizen. In collaboration with U.S. Marshalls in California, authorities were able to discover and identify the 38-year-old woman before she boarded a train, according to Indiana State Police (ISP).
In October 2022, authorities issued an arrest warrant for Anderson after the remains of her son, 5-year-old Cairo Ammar Jordan, were found stuffed in a suitcase in April 2022. She was charged with murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death and obstruction of justice.
She is currently being held in a Los Angeles County jail.
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This investigation began in April of 2022 when a man hunting for mushrooms located a suitcase in a heavily wooded area in rural Washington County. The suitcase contained the body of 5-year-old Cairo Jordan, who was unidentified at the time of the discovery.
An autopsy found that Jordan died from an electrolyte imbalance likely due to gastroenteritis, a condition that causes inflammation of a person’s stomach and intestines. This can lead to diarrhea and vomiting, which can cause dehydration, according to the CDC.
While Anderson was recently arrested for the death of her son, another woman has already been connected to the murder. In October 2022, Dawn Elaine Coleman was arrested in Shreveport, La.
Coleman later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with five of those years being suspended for probation. Both women are connected to the murder because detectives found both of their fingerprints on the plastic bags Jordan’s body was placed in.
According to CBS News, Coleman and Anderson knew each other for more than a year before Jordan’s death, and they were all living together in Louisville, Ky.
Coleman told police that on the night of April 16, 2022, she walked into a bedroom and found Anderson on top of Cairo while he was face down on the bed. That’s when Anderson allegedly asked her to help put Jordan in a trash bag and a suitcase.
She then claimed that they took the boy’s body to a wooded area in Washington County, Ind., which is near Louisville.
