Thread by @egavactip

I’ve been thinking about several extremist-related murders recently. Two days ago, I shared the details of one incident.

In this thread, I will share details related to a murder allegedly committed by Dejaune Anderson.

I want to make clear that this is a murder and there are details that are disturbing. Please do not continue if you are easily upset.

This sad story starts with a suitcase. The suitcase, emblazoned with a “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” design, was found abandoned in the woods of southern Indiana by a mushroom hunter two years ago, on April 16, 2022. He opened the suitcase.

In the suitcase was a trash bag. In the bag was stuffed the body of a 5-year-old boy. His identity was a mystery that would take law enforcement months to uncover. But his name was Cairo Jordan.

Cairo was from Atlanta, Georgia. His father, Vincent Jordan, said that soon after Cairo was born, the child’s mother, Dejaune Anderson, absconded with Cairo after a custody battle. He hadn’t seen Cairo for years.

Dejaune Anderson had seemingly been traveling around the country with a woman named Dawn Coleman from Louisiana. Both Anderson and Coleman believed in magic/magic practices; both offered their services in this arena for a fee. There are a lot of people who do things like this.

In March 2022, Anderson and Coleman (and Cairo) were in South Carolina, where Anderson fled from police trying to pull her over for speeding. After the chase ended—bc Anderson’s car ran out of gas—they refused to open the car doors. Police had to break the windows to arrest them.

Just weeks later, Anderson—now in Louisville, Kentucky—was arrested again, this time for a shoplifting incident in which she punched a store security guard.

However, more disturbing things were also happening with Anderson & Coleman. By early 2022 at the latest, Anderson had become convinced that a demon had come to inhabit her son. In February she referred to having had to “exorcism [sic] a very powerful demonic from within my son.”

In March 2022, she made a post suggesting that there was or had been a “full grown demon” in a “child body.” A few days later, she suggested that she was going to do a book and a podcast about the exorcism and “living with a demonic child.”

Coleman had similar beliefs. On April 8, she claimed someone looking like a child did not mean they were actually a child. “There are beings that are here that are not supposed to be here,” she said. “We are catering to evil beings in children avatars that aren’t even children.”

On April 12, Anderson tweeted to a priest, asking to speak with him “urgently.” She told the priest that she had “survived the death attacks from my 5-year-old throughout the 5 years he has been alive.” Her child was actually 100 years old. She asked for the priest’s help.

Exactly what happened next, from April 12-14, is not entirely clear, as the only account comes from Dawn Coleman, an unreliable witness. Coleman claimed later that she walked into their hotel room in Louisville to find Anderson lying on young Cairo with his face down on the bed.

Coleman claimed Cairo was already dead. Whether she played a greater role may never be known. Exactly how Cairo died is not clear. An autopsy suggested he died from an electrolyte imbalance/dehydration, possibly from viral gastroenteritis, rather than something like suffocation.

Regardless, Cairo was dead, apparently at the hands of Anderson. The two women jammed the child’s body into the “Las Vegas” suitcase and drove across the Ohio River into Indiana, where they left the body in the woods. They drove back to Louisville, then went on their way.

After the mushroom hunter found the body, the investigation began. Police found fingerprints on the trash bag; they came back as Coleman/Anderson, allowing officers to find cell phone tower pings near the suitcase. They even found a photo on Coleman’s social media w/the suitcase.

Knowing who was responsible was one thing; finding them another. Coleman was tracked down in San Francisco in October 2022. Charged w/aiding murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice, she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Where, though was the mother, Dejaune Anderson? She’d been all around the country in recent years and could be anywhere.

Thanks to a tip, law enforcement was able to arrest Anderson in the L.A. area in March 2022. Already charged in Indiana with murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice, Anderson was brought back to that state to face trial.

I mentioned a that there was an extremist connection. I was not referring to the belief in magic or in demons; those are fringe beliefs but not necessarily tied to an extremist ideology. However, in April 2024, when Anderson appeared was arraigned, something else emerged.

In court, when asked her name, Dejaune Anderson did not identify herself as Dejaune Anderson, but rather as Princess Khalifia Hattan Tupac Bey II, representing the entity Dejaune Anderson. Asked again, she repeated that she was representing Dejaune Anderson.

This may seem strange—well, it is strange—but it is also a pretty standard type of statement used by the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement (the reasoning behind this “representing the entity” language is too convoluted to go into here on Twitter).

She also said she didn't have a social security number (common for sovereigns, who renounce such numbers) and declared her nationality was under the “Washitaw Moors.” This is another sovereign reference, stemming from an old sovereign citizen group called the “Washitaw Nation.”

The “Moorish” reference (and the “Bey” in her ostensible name) come from a segment of the sovereign citizen movement known as Moorish sovereigns, who emerged in the 1990s from the commingling of sovereign ideas and ideas from a fringe religious group, the Moorish Science Temple.

Anderson also indicated that she did not want an attorney but rather desired to represent herself, which is also very common among sovereign citizens (who have conspiracy theories about attorneys).

I thought when I first watched the arraignment video that this was going to turn out to be a fairly standard sovereign citizen appearance. However, the second half of her appearance went in a different direction as she went on to claim that some of the evidence in

her case was “Q-classified evidence.” This was interesting and I wondered if perhaps she was also influenced by Q-Anon.

A few minutes later, though, Anderson started bringing up other notions entirely. She claimed she had not been a fugitive but had been under “NSA surveillance” for months and a “detail from Space Force” was following her every move.

The judge did not follow up on these remarks, however, leaving them unexplained and unusual—as was an earlier remark she made about her birthdate, which would have put her in her 60s rather than her 30s.

These remarks raised the additional possibility of mental illness, but since they were not explored, there was no chance to see if they were purely delusional or if they were part of an ideological framework or a known conspiracy theory.

Given such remarks, she may at some point be asked to have an examination to determine her competency, which would be an appropriate step. That is where this case currently stands.

If she does indeed go the sovereign citizen route, one would expect various sovereign-style motions and filings to emerge in the upcoming weeks and months, written by her or by some other sovereign.

I think a lot of people would probably have started questioning Anderson’s mental health upon hearing of the demon possession beliefs, but (sadly) such beliefs are not as uncommon as you might think in recent years.

Others might have questioned it after the “representing the entity” remarks, but such statements are unremarkable on the context of sovereign citizens. It was the NSA/Space Force comment that gave me pause, and made me want to hear her explain it more—which did not happen.

(last post) I forgot to mention that you can watch her arraignment video here: