A 5-year-old boy was found dead in a suitcase in southern Indiana 2 years ago, and his mother, who had been on the run for nearly 2 years, has been arrested as a suspect in the case.
On April 16, 2022, the body of Cairo Ammar Jordan was found inside a suitcase covered in a Las Vegas design in a heavily wooded area northwest of Louisville, Kentucky.
Cairo’s mother, Dejaune Ludie Anderson, 38, of Atlanta, and Elaine Coleman, 41, of Down were both charged with murder of a dependent.
Anderson was arrested on those charges and is currently in custody at the Valley Jail in Van Nuys, California. The allegation has not yet reached the jail records.
Cairo’s body was discovered within a week of his death. And an autopsy showed he probably died of electrolyte imbalance due to gastroenteritis.
Police cited the delay in the autopsy of Cairo’s body as he had not been reported missing and his mother had been on the run for months.
After police confirmed the boy’s identity, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation assisted Indiana authorities in contacting his father.
Coleman was sentenced to several months in prison in October 2022 for Cairo’s death. Because the investigating police found Coleman and Anderson’s fingerprints.
Police said in the investigation that Coleman met Cairo’s mother about a year ago and they went on various trips together at different times, with the three sharing a house in Louisville.
Coleman’s confession says they shared a room in the same house when he walked into the adjoining bedroom when he found Cairo’s mother lying on top of the child, who was face down on the bed. At one point Anderson asked Cairo to help put it in a black bag and later in a suitcase.
Then they both left the suitcase in a forest on Holder Road in Southeast County, Indiana, Washington.
One evening in April 2022, a man was looking for mushrooms in the forest and discovered the suitcase with a picture printed on it.
The mushroom hunter opens it and finds a bolus and a black trash bag inside and opens the bag to find the body of the boy. When the incident was reported to the state police, they came to the scene and took the suitcase to the Indiana coroner’s office in Washington County.
