LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The woman charged with killing her 5-year-old son and hiding his body in a suitcase in southern Indiana is being committed to a psychiatric facility.

Dejaune Anderson is charged with the murder of her son, Cairo Jordan. A mushroom hunter found the child's body in a suitcase in the woods in Washington County in 2022.

Earlier this year, Judge Larry Medlock ordered a psychologist and a psychiatrist to examine Anderson to determine if she's competent to stand trial. The order came following a court appearance where Anderson claimed she had been under federal surveillance for eight months, identified herself with a name beginning with "Princess," and said she was "representing the entity" of Anderson.

Prior to that court hearing, Anderson sent multiple messages to the court asking Medlock to dismiss her case, which was denied. Another message told the court she was firing her public defender and requested to defend herself. 

On Friday, Medlock made the decision following the completion of two reports on Anderson's competency. 

"Both Psychiatric Evaluations submitted by Dr. Callaway and Dr. Parker conclude that the Defendant is not currently competent to stand trial or assist counsel in her defense," Medlock wrote.

Anderson has been held in the Washington County Detention Center since her arrest March 15 in Arcadia, California, — outside Los Angeles — on a murder warrant after being on the run for almost two years.  

Since her first court appearance, where she declared her name was "princess" and that she was "representing the entity" of Anderson, she has been fighting to represent herself. 

In addition to the murder charge for her son, Cairo Jordan, she was also charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death and obstruction of justice.

Dejaune Anderson in court

Dejaune Anderson appears in court in April 2024 for the murder of her 5-year-old son, Cairo Jordan. (WDRB photo)

In April, Washington County Circuit Judge Larry Medlock asked for a mental evaluation of Anderson to determine her competency to stand trial on those charges. That order came after Anderson's strange first court appearance on April 2, where she made some bizarre comments to Medlock, including a claim she's under federal surveillance. She also gave an alias to the judge, said she wants to represent herself in the case, and said a Space Force military detail has been following her everywhere she goes.

Anderson is the second woman charged in her son's murder. Dawn Coleman, 41, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced to 30 years in prison with five years suspended to probation after pleading guilty to aiding, inducing or causing murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice.

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