The “Watcher” has forced a New Jersey family to flee their dream home after he sent them disturbing and threatening letters, and now the new owners are suing the previous ones for failing the disclose the home's stalker.
Derek and Maria Broaddus, the new homeowners, purchased the $1.3 million, six-bedroom dream home last summer with the hopes of raising their three children in the 4,000-square-foot “grand turn of the
century home," according to The Washington Post. But only three days after they completed the purchase, the family began receiving chilling letters from the “Watcher."
“My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. It is now my time,” the letter read,
according to the complaint filed in Union County Superior Court earlier this month. “I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming . . . Do you need to fill the house with the young blood I requested? Once I know their names I will call to them and draw them out to me.”
Two more letters followed the first and continued to terrorize the Broadduses.
“Have they found what is in the walls yet? . . . In time they will . . . Who has the rooms facing the street? I'll know as soon as you move in. It will help me to know who is in which bedroom then I can plan better," the letters read.
The couple claims that the previous homeowners, John and Andrea Woods, also received letters from the “Watcher” before they sold the
house to the Broadduses, according to The Independent. The Broadduses filed suit against the Woods couple, accusing them of “fraudulent, avaricious, intentional, and negligent concealment and misrepresentation of material facts” for failing to disclose the home's history with the "Watcher." The suit also targets the Chicago Title Insurance Company for breach of contract and fraud.
Although some states have laws that require the homeowner to notify potential buyers of any tragic incidents or murders that occurred on the property, New Jersey does not have those laws, according to The Independent.
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