CHULA VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) \u2014 A woman reported missing was found dead at a Chula Vista park, and police said a man suspected in her death was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Chula Vista police officers were dispatched to a home in the 600 block of Via Curvada on Sunday afternoon after a woman told police her sister was missing following a visit to the residence.<\/p>\n
According to police, the missing woman had gone to her mother\u2019s home on Via Curvada \u201cto address a problem tenant her mother was renting to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding officers found the missing woman\u2019s vehicle but did not locate her.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the welfare check, officers found evidence that someone had been badly injured and contacted detectives from the Crimes of Violence Unit to continue the investigation,\u201d Chula Vista police said.<\/p>\n
Police stated the missing woman and the tenant \u2014 identified as 41-year-old Robert Watkins \u2014 were involved in a landlord-tenant dispute.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the dispute, Watkins revealed to detectives that he murdered the missing person and had disposed of her body near the residence. However, he would not tell officers where her body could be found,\u201d according to police.<\/p>\n
As the investigation unfolded, police were called to Paseo del Rey Park after someone discovered a body in bushes. Investigators confirmed the unidentified person was deceased.<\/p>\n
Watkins was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to San Diego County Jail for booking.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact San Diego County Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHULA VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) \u2014 A woman reported missing was found dead at a Chula Vista park, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[137854,137855,137856,137857,137858,74,76,75,137853],"class_list":["post-332793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-chula-vista-death","tag-chula-vista-murder","tag-missing-chula-vista-woman","tag-paseo-del-rey-park","tag-robert-watkins","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-via-curvada-chula-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}