ST. LOUIS • A man charged Friday with murder in the 2011 strangulation death of a St. Louis woman was on parole for a similar-style killing 24 years ago.

A DNA match on blood found in the apartment of Tiffany Macon helped lead to the arrest of Tyrone L. Arnold, 51, according to court documents filed Friday in St. Louis Circuit Court. Arnold is charged with first-degree murder.

Macon's body was found Feb. 7, 2011, on the floor of her apartment at 4221 North 20th Street, according to court documents. Macon suffered internal and external injuries to her neck, police said. She also had cuts and bruises on her face, shoulder, abdomen, back, buttocks and hands, and a human bite mark to her right shoulder.

The St. Louis medical examiner's office ruled Macon died as a result of strangulation and possible suffocation. Macon was last seen alive the day before her body was found.

It is the second time Arnold has faced a murder charge in connection with the strangulation death of a woman.

In 1988, Arnold pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing Mamie Fulton, 29. Two of Fulton's daughters found her nude body at their home in the 5900 block of Dressell Avenue in St. Louis in March 1988. Arnold was arrested a few days after the killing and reportedly told police he killed Fulton, a former neighbor.

Arnold received a 30-year sentence but was on parole at the time he allegedly killed Macon in 2011.

In the most recent case, police connected Arnold to the crime, court documents show, after the crime laboratory received a DNA hit on a swabs of blood taken from Macon's refrigerator door, a glass smoking tube and from Macon's right shoulder.

Arnold lived in the 5500 block of Sandpiper Drive in an unincorporated part of St. Louis County off Lucas & Hunt Road.