A transgender woman convicted of killing her infant stepdaughter was quietly freed 30 years early from an Indiana prison and quickly launched an OnlyFans account, according to reports.
Autumn Cordellioné, who was sentenced to 55 years in prison in 2002 for the strangling death of 11-month-old Faith Lee, returned to her hometown of Evansville, Indiana, last December on parole, but prosecutors only learned of her release from a citizen, not the state, reported the Evansville Courier & Press.
Cordellioné, who last year filed a $3.5 million lawsuit against President Trump over what she called “transphobic hate speech,” was spotted in Evansville by an unnamed person who recognized her from the 2002 trial, when she still went by her birth name, Jonathan Richardson.
That person alerted authorities, who said they had received no advanced notice from the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) that Cordellioné had been paroled after serving less than half her sentence.
“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,” Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers told the Courier & Press.
It isn’t known exactly when she was set free, but her earliest possible release date was listed as Dec. 29, 2025, according to IDOC records.
The IDOC did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
Cordellioné has allegedly launched an OnlyFans since being released, Reduxx reported.
On Sept. 12, 2001, then-19-year-old Richardson was left in charge of caring for her girlfriend’s daughter when she strangled her to death at the home the couple shared in Evansville.
She was convicted of reckless homicide in 2002.
After being diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2020, Richardson changed her name to Cordellioné and began identifying as female.
In March 2025, Cordellioné successfully sued the IDOC over its ban on gender-affirming surgery for inmates, sparking widespread outrage.
“Convicted murderers don’t get to demand that taxpayers foot the bill for expensive and controversial sex-change operations. It lacks all common sense” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said at the time.
“We won’t stop defending our state’s ban on using taxpayer funds to provide sex-change surgeries to prisoners,” he added.
In April 2025, Cordellioné filed a lawsuit against Trump, alleging the president’s “extremist rhetoric” against transgender people fueled repeated violent and sexual attacks against her at her all-male prison.
Behind bars, Cordellioné, who also now identifies as Muslim, launched a separate lawsuit against her prison chaplain after alleging that she was denied a hijab.
News of Cordellioné’s release came just days after Indiana’s Gov. Mike Braun signed into law a bill designed to prevent such miscommunications between state and local authorities.
House Bill 1250, signed March 3, requires local prosecutors, sheriffs, and police chiefs to be notified by the IDOC at least a week before releasing a violent felon.
