Joliet Woman Who Lived With Slain Couple 'Knew Something Bad Was Going To Happen'

A Joliet woman who shared her house with a recently murdered young couple said she knew they were bound for a bad end.

“I knew something bad was going to happen because they were doing so much dirty stuff to people,” Joan Watkins said of Chinesicia Hill-King and her boyfriend, Michael Brock. Hill-King and Brock were both 24 when they died.

Brock’s body was found in an Ottawa Street alley two months ago. Police initially investigated his death as a hit-and-run but later said he was shot once before he was struck by a car.

Hill-King turned up in a Zurich Road ditch Wednesday night. Her bullet-riddled body had apparently been there for some time.

The police believe Brock was run over by Hill-King’s car. Her abandoned 2003 Monte Carlo was left not far from his body. But detectives do not know what role—if any—Hill-King had in Brock’s murder, said Deputy Police Chief Al Roechner.

“We had no idea of her involvement or if she was even there,” Roechner said of Hill-King, who vanished about the same time Brock was killed and—as far as the police can tell—was never again seen alive.

Brock and Hill-King lived with Watkins in her Notre Dame Avenue home last year. Watkins, 58, said her husband allowed Brock to move in with them after meeting him “on the street” and deciding the young man needed “help and guidance.” But then an uninvited Hill-King arrived and the situation rapidly deteriorated, she said.

“They were both on drugs, they drank a lot, they stole liquor from the stores” and billed pornographic movies to her cable account, Watkins said.

“I went through hell with them and she wasn’t even supposed to be here,” Watkins recalled. “She said, ‘I’m not going anywhere and you can’t put me out.’”

Things came to a head when Hill-King accused Watkins of “slicing” her face with a knife. The police arrested Watkins but prosecutors chose not to file charges against her. During the 28 hours Watkins spent in the county jail, she said Brock and Hill-King stole her television, her pain medication, “$100 worth of really nice, expensive silverware,” towels, and possibly jewelry.

“I was just glad to have them away from me,” said Watkins, who still expressed grief when told of Hill-King’s violent death.

“Im sorry she had to go out like that, the both of them, they were so young,” she said.

“I hate that she got killed but I knew something bad was going to happen,” Watkins said.

“There’s a lot of people getting killed,” she said. “It’s really bad in Joliet right now.”

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