SELLERSBURG, Ind. — A young boy found dead inside a suitcase in rural southern Indiana last spring has been identified as Cairo Ammar Jordan, Indiana State Police said Wednesday.
Jordan’s body was discovered by a mushroom hunter in Washington County on April 16, police said. Investigators described the boy as Black, roughly 4 feet tall, and slim with short hair. His body was shoved inside a suitcase, which bore a distinctive Las Vegas design on its front and back.
The body of a little boy was found inside this suitcase in a wooded area in Washington County, Indiana earlier this year. (Indiana State Police)
Indiana police pulled two sets of fingerprints from the suitcase and they were traced to two suspects, one being the boy’s mother.
Dawn Elaine Coleman, 40 from Shreveport, Louisiana, was arrested in California on Oct. 14, police said Wednesday.
Dejuane Ludie Anderson, 37, of Atlanta, Georgia, is the mother of the child. Police described her as a Black woman, 5-foot-5, 130 lbs with short dark brown hair. She’s wanted for felony neglect of dependent resulting in death and obstruction of justice.
There is currently an arrest warrant out for murder for Anderson, as police have established probable cause for murder in the investigation.
The boy’s identity was also revealed Wednesday. His name was Cairo Ammar Jordan from Atlanta, Georgia. Police said he would’ve turned 6 this past Monday.
Indiana State Police are searching for Dejuane Anderson in connection with the death of her son, Cairo, who was found dead inside a suitcase in April 2022. (Louisville Metro Corrections)
Police unveiled a booking photo of Anderson, who was arrested by Louisville Metro Police for robbery weeks before her son went missing, Sgt. Carey Huls said. Dawn Coleman’s relation to the boy or the mother is not currently known.
In a probable cause affadavit filed in Washington County, police revealed Facebook messages sent from Anderson’s account in Dec. 2021 pertaining to “reversal spells, exorcism, and Hex/Curse.” Many times, Anderson refers to her child as a “demon.”
Other messages and posts to her public Facebook account were detailed, where Anderson said she had to “do some healing and killing.” Anderson also claimed to have “survived the death attacks” from her son, adding that she’d been able to “weaken his powers through our blood.”
“I have his real name and he is 100 years old,” Anderson said in a post to her public Twitter account, according to the affidavit.
On March 18, 2022, Anderson allegedly posted: “Can’t wait to tell this story. About the exorcism. A book about living with a demonic child. And a podcast.”
The investigation is ongoing, and police are seeking help with locating Anderson. Authorities believe she’s on the run in California.
