The murder charge against a 34-year-old woman in the horrific 2019 death of 20-year-old Willoe Watkins has been dismissed.

Watkins’s remains were found July 29, 2019. She had been beaten, strangled, wrapped in garbage bags, dumped in a well and then covered in cement.

The Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s Office on Monday filed a motion seeking the dismissal of the warrant against Monic Mochell Battles, which was granted by Circuit Judge James Roberts Jr.

Battles is the wife of one of the first suspects charged in Watkins’ slaying. Kendal “Tyler” Battles, 32, was convicted in 2021 and sentenced to life in prison.

Monic Battles’ trial was set to begin on Feb. 6.

“After extensive investigation, lengthy discussion with law enforcement and several meetings with the defendant,’’ wrote Assistant District Attorney Lyndsie Turner Curry, “the State of Alabama avers that it will be unable to meet the elements of the charge.”

Tyler Battles was the only defendant of four to go to trial.

Devon Trent Hall and Joseph Brandon Nevels both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Watkins was reported missing June 15, 2019, by her grandmother.

Her body was discovered Monday, July 29, about 30 feet down in an abandoned well. It took investigators more than 12 hours to excavate the well and recover her body.

Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit Capt. Jack Kennedy previously said it was a brutal scene.

“Her body was not discarded in a hasty fashion,’’ Kennedy said. “It took planning and” multiple people, he said.

According to court records, deputies were called to the scene where Watkins’ body was found. Investigators were told the three men and a woman beat Watkins to death, threw her in a well and poured cement on top of her body.

Court documents state Nevels told investigators that Watkins stole his cell phone. “Nevels got upset and hit her in the head with a shotgun,” records state.

All of the defendants, according to records, than beat Watkins with their hands, feet and a baseball bat, Nevels told investigators, according to the report. “Nevels stated Hall strangled her to death with a cord,” the documents state.

Court records filed by Nevels’ attorney several months ago seeking his return to state prison from the Tuscaloosa County Jail stated that Nevels refused to testify against Monic Battles. “Furthermore, the defendant has advised the district attorney’s office that due to his heavy drug use at the time of the event, he has no recollection of the event.”

Watkins was a graduate of McAdory High School and was once involved in high school pageants.

Her mother, Miranda Michelle Lynch, was found dead in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor of a mobile home on Aug. 7, 2015. Police said she was held against her will for days and repeatedly beaten before she died of her injuries.

Authorities at the time said Lynch was killed by three female friends who wanted access to her boyfriend’s food stamps. Watkins’ father also is dead, and she was particularly close to her grandmother.