DUNBAR — Authorities say a man who had just been released from jail has been charged with beating and stabbing his live-in girlfriend to death.

Police say 29-year-old Henry Earley of Bitner was arrested walking into traffic on Route 51 shortly after midnight Tuesday. At the house he shared with 30-year-old Rebecca DiMatteo, they found her body lying on the floor.

Earley was arraigned on a criminal homicide charge and taken to Fayette County Jail without bond. According to court records, he had been released from the jail on bond Sunday, a day after he was taken there on unrelated charges of simple assault, harassment, retail theft and disorderly conduct.

A listed number for the defendant had been disconnected and a number under the victim's name was unlisted; it was unclear whether he had an attorney.