LAFAYETTE, Ga. (AP) — A northwest Georgia man previously convicted of murder is now accused of concealing his wife’s body.

Bob Jay Cole, 46, is charged with concealing the death of another person, local news outlets report.

Cole’s new wife, Britney Nicole Parker, was found dead in a field near LaFayette in June. An autopsy found that the 31-year-old Parker died of an accidental methamphetamine overdose. However, investigators believe Cole moved Parker’s body in his SUV after she died, leaving the body in the field. The body was found early one mid-June morning, without a wallet or cell phone, by two farmers checking livestock.

Cole sold his SUV to a Walker County car dealer the day after Parker’s body was found, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said in a news release. Investigators seized the SUV and later found traces of Parker’s blood inside.

Parker and Cole had been married just days before she was found dead. Cole initially told authorities that Parker disappeared following a disagreement.

Cole had served 27 years in prison for murder before being released in 2018, Georgia Department of Corrections records show. Cole was sent back to prison on a parole violation after he turned himself in to a parole officer. State records show he has been imprisoned since July.

Parker said that Cole will be brought to Walker County when he gets out of prison and booked on the felony concealing charge.

Cole was convicted of robbing and murdering Benjamin West in neighboring Catoosa County in 1990. Cole was 16 years old at the time.