LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Newly filed court documents outline the extensive evidence that could be presented at trial for the woman accused of killing her 5-year-old son, whose body was found inside a suitcase in rural southern Indiana in 2022.
Dejaune Anderson faces charges including murder (domestic violence), first-degree manslaughter, first-degree criminal abuse of a child under 12, and abuse of a corpse in the death of Cairo Jordan.
Ahead of a pre-trial hearing Tuesday, prosecutors responded to a discovery order, stating the case includes more than 1.1 terabytes of evidence.
That material includes Anderson’s grand jury testimony and multiple police interviews, which prosecutors say contain incriminating statements. It also features fingerprint analysis, autopsy findings, and witness statements.
Court filings show the discovery further includes:
- Nearly 2,400 pages of photos and documents
- Data collected through search warrants
- Security camera footage
- Chirp messages
- Police body camera video from Anderson’s arrest in California
- Body camera footage from her arrest in South Carolina one month before Cairo’s death
- Police interviews with Dawn Coleman, the other woman convicted in the case
- Radiology records from the Washington County, Indiana coroner
After months of delays in Indiana courts, the case was moved to Kentucky in December 2025.
Indiana prosecutors said the evidence spans both states, and relocating the case helps ensure a stronger legal foundation while reducing the risk of a conviction being overturned on a technicality.
Dawn Coleman, who is serving a 25-year sentence, told investigators she witnessed Anderson smother the child while they were staying at a home in Louisville.
Coleman said she later helped dispose of the boy’s body by placing it in trash bags inside a suitcase, then driving across state lines to leave it in a wooded area of southern Indiana.
Prosecutors added that cell phone data supports this account, placing both women in Louisville around the time of the child’s death and later tracking them to the location where the body was found.
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