A Chula Vista man was arrested on suspicion of killing the daughter of his landlord on Sunday after the woman went missing and her body was later found at a nearby park, police said.
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Police were called to a home on Via Curvada near Buen Tiempo Drive shortly after 1:50 p.m. by a woman reporting that her sister had gone missing after she had gone to their mother’s home to deal with a “problem tenant” her mother was renting to, Chula Vista police Lt. David Oyos said in a news release.
When officers got to the home, they found the missing woman’s vehicle but not the woman, and they found evidence that someone at the location had been badly injured. Detectives found out that the missing woman and the tenant had been involved in some kind of landlord-tenant dispute.
According to Oyos, the tenant told police that he had killed the missing woman and had disposed of her body near the residence, but he would not tell them where her body could be found.
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Around the same time, someone walking a dog at Paseo Del Rey Park, less than a half mile away, spotted something suspicious in the bushes and called police.
Detectives went to the park and located the missing woman’s body, Oyos said.
The name of the woman who died has not been released.
Rober Watkins, 41, was booked into jail on suspicion of murder and was being held without bail.
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