{"id":603,"date":"2026-05-27T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:42:19","slug":"tenant-arrested-after-california-landlords-daughter-found-dead-in-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Tenant arrested after California landlord\u2019s daughter found dead in park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=601\">49ers open OTAs looking for play-making receivers, defensive backs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s home to deal with a \u201cproblem tenant\u201d her mother was renting to, Chula Vista police Lt. David Oyos said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>When officers got to the home, they found the missing woman\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=599\">Sent to prison for crimes in Contra Costa, they\u2019re now trying to make amends from behind bars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives went to the park and located the missing woman\u2019s body, Oyos said.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the woman who died has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Rober Watkins, 41, was booked into jail on suspicion of murder and was being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=597\">Opinion: Ranked choice voting can save San Jose taxpayers millions<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who went to her mother&#8217;s house to deal with a &#8216;problem tenant&#8217; went missing and was later found dead in a nearby Chula Vista park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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