Amount of evidence delays hearing in case against mother of boy found dead in suitcase in Indiana

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The attorney for a woman accused of killing her 5-year-old son, putting his body in a suitcase and leaving it in the woods in southern Indiana said there's more than 1 terabyte of evidence in the case.

A court hearing scheduled Monday for Dejaune Anderson was pushed back by two months to July 21. Anderson's attorney said she needs more time to go through the amount of evidence in there is in the case.

The case moved to Louisville after Indiana prosecutors dropped the charges against Anderson. Prosecutors said the complex case involves facts and evidence spanning both Indiana and Kentucky, so the decision was made to move the case to Jefferson County for a better chance of conviction.

Anderson was indicted in Jefferson County by a grand jury in the homicide case. She faces charges of murder, manslaughter, criminal abuse and abuse of a corpse. She has pleaded not guilty in the case.

A mushroom hunter found her son, Cairo Jordan, inside a suitcase in a wooded area of Washington County, Indiana, in April 2022. At the time, investigators said the child was clean, clothed and showed no signs of being placed in the suitcase alive. They believed Cairo died in Indiana before being left in the woods.

She was arrested in California on March 15, 2024, after two years on the run. During her first court appearance after her arrest, Anderson made bizarre claims — including that she was a "princess" and that she was "representing the entity of Anderson." She also told the court that a "Space Force military detail" was following her.

Investigators believe Jordan's murder happened in Kentucky. Court records show Anderson posted on social media a month before her son's death, saying she was living with a demonic child.

Anderson was committed to a psychiatric facility in August 2024 and eventually found fit to stand trial.

Another woman charged in Cairo's murder — Dawn Coleman, of Shreveport, Louisiana — pleaded guilty to aiding, inducing or causing murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with five years suspended to probation.