LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A woman accused of killing her son and leaving his body in a suitcase in rural southern Indiana was booked into Louisville's jail on Thursday.
Dejuane Anderson's case was dismissed in Washington County earlier this week and her trial was moved to Louisville.
According to Washington County Prosecutor Tara Coats Hunt, a Jefferson County, Kentucky, grand jury returned an indictment Dec. 8 against Anderson in the homicide case involving the death of her 5-year-old son Cairo Jordan.
Anderson's charges include murder, manslaughter, criminal abuse and abuse of a corpse. She'll appear in court Dec. 15 to be arraigned, and a judge already set a $500,000 bond.
Anderson was charged after a mushroom hunter found 5-year-old Jordan's body stuffed in a suitcase in rural Washington County in 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.
Anderson's trial was originally scheduled for October 2025 in Washington County but was moved to Jan. 6, 2026.
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.
Online, her posts turned increasingly disturbing. Just a month before Cairo's death, she wrote about "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.
The venue change was granted after Hunt requested Jefferson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerina Whethers review the investigation into Cairo's murder and consider presenting the case to a grand jury. Anderson will now be prosecuted by Whethers and her office.
Hunt's post said the complex case involves facts and evidence spanning both Indiana and Kentucky, and she decided to move the case to Jefferson County for a better chance of conviction.
"Although Washington County has been fully prepared to prosecute this case, shifting jurisdiction ensures the strongest legal foundation and prevents any future appellate ruling from overturning a conviction due to a technicality," she wrote.
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