The woman accused of killing her 5-year-old son and dumping his body in “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” suitcase in southern Indiana fired her public defender this week after claiming he is President Joe Biden’s grandson and that somehow represents a “conflict” in her case.
Dejuane Anderson identified herself in the handwritten court filing on Tuesday as “Princess Califia Hatun Tupak Bey II, representing entity Dejuane L. Anderson.”
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A mushroom hunter found the colorful hardshell suitcase containing Cairo Jordan’s body in rural Washington County on April 16, 2022, but it wasn’t until October that year that his body was identified, as CrimeOnline reported. Investigators identified Anderson and a second woman, Dawn Coleman, as suspects in the boys death, and Coleman was soon arrested in California.
She pleaded guilty in November 2023 to conspiracy and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Anderson, however, remained on the run. Coleman told investigators she helped Anderson put Cairo’s body in the suitcase in Louisville, Kentucky, and then they drove across the Ohio River into Indiana, where Coleman left the suitcase in the woods.
Court documents also said that Coleman and Anderson made several social media posts referring to Cairo as a “demon,” and Anderson reportedly said she had written a “book about living with a demonic child.”
And then, Anderson was arrested in a Los Angeles suburb last month and brought back to Indiana. At her arraignment, she told Judge Larry Medlock she wanted to represent herself and that she’d been followed by the US Space Force and the National Security Administration for months.
Medlock ordered a public defender anyway, and Anderson promptly fired him, claiming Alex Ooley is Biden’s grandson. Her filing claims that he statements include “foreign intelligence information” about the president’s actions.
Biden has seven known grandchildren. The public defender is not one of them.
On Wednesday, Medlock did not comment on Anderson’s filing about the public defender, but he did order psychiatric and psychological examinations of the defendant to determine if she is competent to stand trial, WHAS reported. He also denied another filing, which asked that the charges against her — murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice — be dismissed.
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