Phone: (718) 715-1758 They insisted that the law required full disclosure of the letter the Woods received just prior to closing. She probed the faces of shoppers at Trader Joe’s to see whether they looked strangely at her kids and spent hours googling anyone who seemed suspicious. Land assessed at $558,600 & Improvements assessed at $487,100. By this time, another house on the block had been sold and those new owners also made an appearance. The renter was spooked but agreed to stay. You wonder who The Watcher is? Maria, in particular, needed to avoid mentioning anything to her new neighbors. Several weeks after the second letter was despatched, a third one arrived. Access detailed property tax data for 657 Boulevard. The Watcher had kept his or her word and wrote once more. “It was like we were back at the beginning,” said Maria. Maybe I am in one. Others within the industry believed that the owners had become too forthcoming. Chambliss managed to persuade a security guard to retrieve a water bottle that she discarded in order to obtain some of her DNA. Then I can plan better. Several weeks later, a third letter arrived. He didn’t think the Watcher was likely to act on the threats, but the letters had enough typos to imply a certain erraticism. Do you know the history of the house? Email: support@propertyshark.com. The Broadduses told them that legal issues prevented them from moving in just yet. The Broadduses decided to sell 657 Boulevard. The back or side of the house had the best view of it. Who wrote it? The police traced the vehicle to a young woman that lived in a nearby town. He found the easel that the letter mentioned, however, it wasn’t easy to see from the street. Frustrated, the Broadduses began their own investigation. The author taunted the new homeowner even more. “We kept screaming at them to stay close,” ­Maria said. I pass by many times a day. Derek showed the letters to his priest, who agreed to bless the house. Twice he invited the boyfriend to the station for an interview and both times he didn’t show up. Perhaps, they thought, that this situation could also qualify. 657 Boulevard , Westfield, NJ 07090-3209 is currently not for sale. Postal Service’s distribution center in northern New Jersey. Buoyed by this revelation, Chambliss and a partner decided to stake out the street one evening. Let the young blood sleep in 657 Boulevard. Maybe something as simple as a mild illness that never seems to go away but makes you fell [sic] sick day after day after day after day after day. Buying a new home is always an exciting event filled with a healthy sense of wonder. When they first put the watcher house back on the market, they set a higher price than they paid owing to the additions they had made. In Westfield, people were on edge. Where does this person live? Peggy Langford was in her 90s, and several of her adult children lived with her. In June 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus bought their dream home at 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey. The Broadduses attempted to sell 657 Boulevard starting in February 2015. Do you know the history of the house? It will help me to know who is in which bedroom. There was barely any trail for investigators to follow. Andrea suggested another theory. When it was delivered, the Woods simply considered it a prank and threw it away. This got Derek and Maria thinking about what they would have done if they knew then what they had learned afterward. (Others, more ­rationally, saw “pixelated glare.”) Proposed suspects included a jilted mistress, a spurned Realtor, a local high ­schooler’s creative-writing project, guerrilla marketing for a horror movie, and “mall Goths ­having fun.”, Some people thought the Broadduses were wimps for not moving in. Bones break. Hundreds of requests flooded in from the media, but a consultant advice Derek not to speak about their experience publicly. I see already that you have flooded 657 Boulevard with contractors so that you can destroy the house as it was supposed to be. It's a big Universe full of wonders. Anyone that would be unlucky enough to receive such a twisted communication such as this would have one question above all others. My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. This home was built in 1905 and last sold on 7/5/2019 for $959,000. Just enter your username or account associated email address below and we'll mail you a password reset link. According to the author, this would be cause for optimism. They told only a handful of friends about the letters, which left others to ask why they weren’t moving in—“Legal issues,” they said—and wonder whether they were getting divorced. Derek recently celebrated his 40th birthday and had worked hard to achieve promotion to Senior Vice President at an insurance company based in Manhattan. The contractor arrived one morning to find that a heavy sign he’d hammered into the front yard had been ripped out overnight. The rent didn’t cover the Broadduses’ mortgage, but they hoped that a few years of renting without incident would help them sell. Many Westfield residents compare their town to Mayberry, the idyllic setting for The Andy Griffith Show. Even when they lowered the price, nothing came of it. But Chambliss didn’t have enough evidence to compel him to appear. Unfortunately, not much else could be done with little more than one detective’s hunch. But The Watcher had a lot more to say. The very nature of the prose did suggest that the writer had knowledge of the local area. Realtor.com. Each letter was delivered via the U.S. “He wasn’t facing his house,” the painter said.