Convicted Transgender Baby Killer Who Strangled 11-Month-Old Baby to Death Is Thrown BACK in Prison for Parole Violation After Being RELEASED 30 Years Early
A convicted transgender baby killer who strangled an innocent 11-month-old girl to death has been hauled back to prison for a parole violation just months after the Indiana Department of Correction quietly released him decades early.
Jonathan Richardson, who now calls himself Autumn Cordellioné and identifies as a transgender woman, was booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail on July 15 for an undisclosed parole violation.
Richardson has since been returned to the custody of the Indiana Department of Correction. State records now list August 15, 2041, as the earliest possible release date, according to WFIE.
Authorities have not publicly disclosed exactly how Richardson violated parole.
Read that again. This man strangled a baby. He was handed a 55-year sentence. He served roughly 23 years. Then the system cut him loose and sent him right back to Evansville, the same community where he murdered that child.
The baby’s name was Faith Lee. She was 11 months old.
On September 12, 2001, Faith’s mother went to work and left her infant daughter in the care of her partner, then-19-year-old Jonathan Richardson. Richardson strangled the helpless baby to death.
When friends came by later that day, he turned them away at the door. The child was already gone. A jury convicted him. A judge sentenced him to 55 years.