Indiana woman sentenced for murder of 5-year-old boy found in suitcase

CHICAGO (CBS) — A Louisiana woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of a 5-year-old boy from Atlanta whose body was found in a suitcase in southern Indiana last year.

The body of Ammar Jordan in Cairo Found on April 16, 2022 in Washington County, Indiana, near Louisville, Kentucky.

Autopsy finds boy died from electrolyte imbalance Dehydration was most likely due to gastroenteritis or vomiting and diarrhea, according to Indiana State Police. Investigators said the boy had died within a week before his body was found.

Police say no disappearances have ever been reported in Cairo, leading to a slow investigation His identity remained unknown for months.. After investigators identified the boy, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation helped Indiana authorities contact Cairo’s father.

His mother, Dejaune Ludie Anderson, is from Atlanta and is wanted on murder charges. She was also charged with neglect of a family member and obstruction of justice.

Another woman, Dawn Elaine Coleman, 41, of Shreveport, La., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in Cairo’s death. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison, five years of which were suspended.

Police said Coleman and Anderson had known each other for about a year and traveled extensively with her and Cairo, and the three had been living together in a house in Louisville.

Investigators found Coleman and Anderson’s fingerprints on a black plastic bag The boy’s body was placed in a suitcase.

Police said Coleman admitted to walking into a bedroom in the house they shared in Louisville, where she saw Anderson lying on top of Cairo, who was lying face down on the bed. When she walked inside, Coleman told police “it was done,” and Anderson asked her to help put Cairo in a trash bag and then into a suitcase.

They then took Cairo’s body to a wooded area in Washington County outside Beijing and dumped the suitcase there. In April 2022, a man discovered the suitcase while searching for mushrooms.

Coleman was arrested in California in October 2022 after police identified Cairo and linked Coleman to his death.

As of Tuesday, Anderson remained at large.