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Dejaune Anderson at her sentencing hearing (WHAS/YouTube screenshot), Cairo Jordan and the suitcase in which his body was discovered (Indiana State Police)

Dejaune Anderson at her arraignment (WHAS/YouTube screenshot). Insets: Cairo Jordan, top, and the suitcase in which his body was discovered, bottom (Indiana State Police)

A 38-year-old mother in Indiana accused of killing her 5-year-old son, stuffing him in a suitcase, and abandoning his body in the Indiana woods appeared in court for the first time and claimed that the federal government — specifically, the NSA and U.S. Space Force — had been surveilling her for months while she was on the lam and declared her intent to act as her own defense attorney in her pending murder trial.

Dejaune Anderson on Tuesday appeared before Washington County Circuit Court Judge Larry W. Medlock on Tuesday where she was arraigned on murder, neglect of a dependent, and obstruction of justice in the 2022 slaying of young Cairo Jordan.

Cairo’s body was discovered on April 26, 2022, by a mushroom hunter in “a very distinctive suitcase” with the words “To Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada” that had been discarded in a heavily wooded area in South East Washington County, authorities said. Police described the area as a “very isolated” dead-end road that was “not heavily traveled at all.”

Washington County is located in southeast Indiana, some 45 miles northwest of Louisville in neighboring Kentucky.

Tuesday’s hearing

After being read the charges against her and informed of her rights and penalties, Anderson advised the court that she will file for self-representation and requested five days to prepare arguments to do so.

“It’s not that I can’t afford a lawyer,” Anderson said in courtroom footage provided by Louisville, Kentucky, ABC affiliate WHAS. “I understand the nature of my case, and I understand this is my life on the line.”

The court granted her request but also determined that a public defender should be appointed “until such time that either counsel is hired or she provides evidence to the Court that she is capable of properly representing herself,” according to court records reviewed by Law&Crime.

In regard to Anderson’s bond, the state prosecutors requested that the court “take judicial notice” of the probable cause affidavit filed by police and emphasized “the gravity of the case” and the fact that Anderson had been a fugitive for two years after her son’s body was discovered.

Speaking on her own behalf, Anderson objected to the state’s characterization of her as a “fugitive” and claimed that she held “Q-classified evidence” that was relevant to her prosecution.

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