{"id":371960,"date":"2026-10-13T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371960\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:54:08","slug":"man-accused-of-killing-artist-living-in-nycs-central-park-to-be-arraigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371960\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing artist living in NYC&#8217;s Central Park to be arraigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of killing a woman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/woman-found-dead-in-central-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found dead in Central Park<\/a> is expected to be arraigned Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Robles, 36, was arrested in September for allegedly killing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/central-park-woman-killed-new-york-city-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elise Hill<\/a>. The 63-year-old was an artist who had been living in the park, according to her friends.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was also known as Lee Rogers and Francis Lee Rogers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was found inside a gazebo in the ramble near East Drive and 74th Street. Hill suffered head trauma, apparently caused by a wooden stick, according to police sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robles turned himself in and has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.  <\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what the motive was, but police sources said there was an argument.  <\/p>\n<p>Acquaintances of Hill remember her as a fixture in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was great. She was really fun to talk to. She knew wildlife. She knew animal behavior. So, it&#8217;s not she just sat there and painted them. She really knew more than an artist would about these animals, and I found that intriguing and interesting,&#8221; Joe Lopez said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moses Diaz said he constructed her a squirrel out of tinfoil for his birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was a great lady,&#8221; he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of killing a woman\u00a0found dead in Central Park is expected to be arraigned Tuesday. Jonathan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4709,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-371960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-central-park","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}