{"id":73919,"date":"2025-12-17T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73919\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:23:07","slug":"woman-72-found-dead-partially-undressed-with-clothes-folded-neatly-beside-her-near-bronx-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73919\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 72, found dead, partially undressed, with clothes folded neatly beside her near Bronx botanical garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 72-year-old woman was found dead and partially undressed \u2014 with some of her clothes folded neatly beside her \u2014 near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Botanical Garden<\/a> in the Bronx, law enforcement sources told the Daily News Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lydia Marzan\u2019s lifeless body was found at 6:49 a.m. Tuesday on a sidewalk near East Fordham Road and Southern Blvd. in Belmont, roughly two blocks away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NNYBG-Garden-Map.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the botanical garden\u2019s main entrance<\/a>, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim had a laceration on one hand and an abrasion above her eye, and was found wearing only a shirt, underwear and socks, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Some clothes were folded neatly on the sidewalk beside her, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures dipped well below freezing in the city Tuesday morning, reaching a low of 24 degrees Fahrenheit, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/wrh\/climate?wfo=okx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marzan lived on Walton Ave. near E. 182nd St. in Fordham Heights, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s medical examiner will determine Marzan\u2019s cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 72-year-old woman was found dead and partially undressed \u2014 with some of her clothes folded neatly beside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-73919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73919","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=73919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}