EVANSVILLE — The Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office learned that convicted murderer Autumn Cordellioné had been released from prison early and returned to Evansville not from an official source but from a tip.
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…