'The Watcher' house sold years after family was terrorized with creepy letters - CNN
August 12, 2019
(CNN)One family's nightmare is over: They finally sold the home where they were terrorized by letters from "The Watcher."
Derek and Maria Broaddus moved all of their belongings into the Westfield, New Jersey, home between June and August 2014, but they never lived there because of the threatening letters.
The couple bought the home for $1,355,657. They spent about $100,000 on renovations, court documents show. They even attempted to get permission from the city's planning board to raze the house and divide the property into two lots. However, they were denied and put the house on the market.
They sold it in early July for approximately $959,000,
according to Zillow, an online real estate database.
657 Boulevard sold in early July.
The Watcher wrote three letters to the Broaddus family shortly after they moved in, identifying details such as the family's car, the contractors whom they brought in to renovate and even the couple's three children."
"A neighbor identified a man living next door to him as a possible suspect. The Broaddus family hired a private investigator and an ex-FBI profiler to try to find the identity of the Watcher. Derek Broaddus testified that the profiler concluded that it was "someone in their 50s or 60s" and lived nearby; the private investigator staked out the area and believed that the neighbors didn't "seem normal."
The Westfield Police and the Union County prosecutor's office investigated, but no one was arrested. No suspects have been publicly identified."
