VALDOSTA — A man once convicted for the death of a schoolteacher in Lowndes County, then retried and set free, has reportedly been arrested in Arizona, accused of killing his wife, authorities said.

A Facebook posting by the Kingman, Ariz., Police Department said Anthony James Goodin, 59, of Alabama was arrested at 4 a.m. Friday on a charge of first-degree murder. Police had responded to a local business on a report of a man stabbing a woman. The caller to 911 was quoting Bible verses and turned out to be the suspect, a police report said.

Officers found Goodin holding a knife at the scene and used a taser on him. The woman, identified as Linda J. Goodin, 53, of Alabama, was taken to a regional hospital, where she died. Arizona media identified her as his wife.

Deputy Police Chief Joel Freed said the pair had been traveling from Alabama to California when they pulled into the business’ parking lot and argued over the suspect giving $20 to a stranger.

Police said Anthony Goodin admitted stabbing the woman several times and was booked into a detention facility.

Anthony Goodin had been tried in Lowndes County in 1988 on a murder charge in the death of Georgia Christian School teacher Marlin Carpenter on or about April 28-29, 1987, court records showed.

At the trial, witnesses placed Carpenter and Goodin at the Valdosta Middle School walking track at the same time; Carpenter’s body was later found in another location away from the school.

Goodin was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but on Dec. 22, 1988, he was granted a motion for a new trial based on new evidence. He was retried a year later and acquitted of murder on Dec. 7, 1989, according to information provided by Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Brad Shealy, who was not in office when Goodin was tried and retried.

Goodin later served time in Georgia prisons for a variety of battery and aggravated assault charges, prison system records show.

Arizona reporter Dave Hawkins contributed to this story.