Autumn Cordellioné, formerly known as Jonathan Richardson.
A shocking case out of Indiana is raising serious questions about public safety, accountability, and a broken criminal justice system after a convicted child killer was quietly released from prison decades early, without even notifying local law enforcement.
Autumn Cordellioné, formerly known as Jonathan Richardson, a man who now “identifies” as a woman after a convenient late-in-life gender dysphoria diagnosis, was paroled in December 2025 after serving less than half of his 55-year sentence for the brutal 2001 murder of baby Faith Lee.
As Gateway Pundit has previously reported, this same sicko has spent years suing the state of Indiana, demanding taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming” surgery while behind bars.
Judge Richard Young, a Clinton-appointed federal judge, even sided with the baby-killing monster, ordering the Indiana Department of Correction to provide the procedure at the “earliest opportunity.”
On September 12, 2001, then-19-year-old Jonathan Richardson was left alone with his girlfriend’s 11-month-old daughter, Faith Lee, at their Evansville, Indiana home.
He strangled the helpless infant to death. He was convicted of reckless homicide in 2002 and sentenced to 55 years in prison. For decades, the public could rest a little easier knowing this monster was locked away. Not anymore.
According to the Evansville Courier & Press, Cordellioné was paroled and returned straight to Evansville last December, without a single notification to Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers or local law enforcement.
The only reason authorities found out? A sharp-eyed citizen who recognized the killer from the original 2002 trial spotted him back in the community and sounded the alarm.
According to the news outlet:
An unnamed person who recognized Cordellioné from her 2002 trial — she was known then as Jonathan Richardson — spotted her in the city and alerted authorities, according to Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers.
Moers said her office received no advance notice from the Indiana Department of Correction that Cordellioné, sentenced in 2002 to 55 years for the murder of her 11-month-old stepdaughter, had been paroled after serving less than half of her allotted prison term.
“The Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office was not notified that this defendant was back in the community — they were spotted by a citizen who recognized them from the original court case,” Moers’ office stated in a news release.
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The disclosure landed less than three weeks after Gov. Mike Braun signed into law legislation designed to prevent communication breakdowns between the state and local authorities when prisoners convicted of violent crimes return home. House Bill 1250, which Braun signed March 3, requires IDOC to notify local prosecutors, sheriffs and police chiefs at least seven days before releasing a serious violent felon from prison.
But the reforms were not yet active at the time of Cordellioné’s release, since HB 1250 will take effect July 1.
According to Reduxx, the circumstances surrounding Richardson’s early release remain unclear due to the lack of an official statement from the Department of Corrections.
The news outlet also reported that the murderer has allegedly launched an OnlyFans account since being released.
This case is a perfect example of how soft-on-crime policies have completely corrupted our justice system.
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