Louisiana Woman Faces Charges In The Death Of A Boy Found In Suitcase 

A Louisiana woman was seeking a change of venue after being charged in connection with the death of a boy whose remains were discovered inside a suitcase in a remote dead-end area of southern Indiana.

Louisiana Woman Faces Charges In The Death Of A Boy Found In Suitcase  (PHOTO: USA Today)

5-Year-Old Boy’s Body Found In Suitcase

The Louisiana woman Dawn Coleman, claims that the public outrage over the child’s death would prevent her from receiving a fair trial as she seeks a change of venue for the charges she is facing over the boy’s death in 2022.

Monday, Ryan Bower the defense attorney of the Louisiana woman filed a venue change request on his client’s behalf. Bower contends that due to public hostility against Coleman, public outrage, and news coverage, she would not receive a fair trial in southern Indiana’s Washington County, according to WTHR-TV.

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A Change Of Venue For The Louisiana Woman

This coming June 1 there will be a hearing for Coleman’s request for the change of venue. Coleman was arrested in October in San Francisco in connection with the death of Cairo Ammar Jordan a 5-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia.

Coleman was charged with helping, inducing, or causing murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice.

Authorities allegedly accused Coleman that she was an accessory of the crime for helping Anderson to dispose of Cairo’s body in April 2022. According to court documents that the boy died in Kentucky and his body was dumped in Indiana.

A mushroom hunter was the one who discovered accidentally the boy’s body in a heavily wooded area off of a dead-end road and it was placed inside a hard suitcase emblazoned with a distinctive Las Vegas design.

Indiana State Police said that according to an autopsy found that Cairo’s cause of death is from severe vomiting and diarrhea that led to dehydration, Investigators claimed that the boy had died within a week before his body was found.

In October, authorities released the identity of the boy and also revealed that they had identified Anderson and Coleman were the suspects in Cairo’s death.

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