{"id":104760,"date":"2024-03-16T00:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T00:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mom-of-5-year-old-boy-found-dead-in-suitcase-taken-into-custody-in-connection-with-his-death\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T00:03:46","slug":"mom-of-5-year-old-boy-found-dead-in-suitcase-taken-into-custody-in-connection-with-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mom-of-5-year-old-boy-found-dead-in-suitcase-taken-into-custody-in-connection-with-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom of 5-year-old boy found dead in suitcase taken into custody in connection with his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-15\/qvbqk04q.png\" alt><figcaption>Indiana State Police<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ind.) &#8212; The mother of a 5-year-old boy found dead in a suitcase in Indiana has been taken into custody in California in connection with his death, authorities announced.<\/p>\n<p>On April 16, 2022, the little boy&#8217;s body was found in a brightly colored suitcase with a Las Vegas design in a rural area of Washington County, Indiana, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Six months later, the boy was identified as Cairo Jordan of Atlanta. Police said he was 5 years old when he died.<\/p>\n<p>Police announced in October 2022 that an arrest warrant was issued for Cairo&#8217;s mother, Dejaune Anderson, for murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a detective &#8220;received information from a concerned citizen &#8230; which started the path to physically locate Dejaune Anderson,&#8221; Indiana State Police Sgt. Carey Huls said at a news conference Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson was apprehended Thursday night in Arcadia, California, near Los Angeles, Huls said. She is being held at an LAPD detention center, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Huls called Anderson&#8217;s arrest a &#8220;huge milestone&#8221; in the case.<\/p>\n<p>A second suspect, Dawn Coleman, was arrested in October 2022 for neglect of a dependent resulting in death and obstruction of justice, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>There are no outstanding suspects, Huls said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Huls praised the residents of Washington County, who he said came together to honor Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Provided him with a funeral, with a headstone,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s still flowers to this day that are placed on his gravesite &#8212; people praying for him and his family and that justice would be done.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana State Police (WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ind.) &#8212; The mother of a 5-year-old boy found dead in a suitcase in Indiana has been taken into custody in California in connection with his death, authorities announced. On April 16, 2022, the little boy&#8217;s body was found in a brightly colored suitcase with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mom-of-5-year-old-boy-found-dead-in-suitcase-taken-into-custody-in-connection-with-his-death\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}