The Watcher of Westbrook by Aidyn Corday

No suspects have been publicly identified. The Westfield Police and the Union County prosecutor’s office investigated, but no one was arrested. 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 Broaddus family hired a private investigator and an ex-FBI profiler to try to find the identity of the Watcher. No other details about that letter were released.Ī neighbor identified a man living next door to him as a possible suspect. The Woodses would not comment on the case or the home, according to their attorney, Richard Kaplow.Ī neighbor at 633 Boulevard also reported receiving a letter signed by the Watcher in the same time frame that the Broaddus family received their letters, Derek Broaddus testified in the trial against the Woodses. But a few days before they moved out, they received a letter from “The Watcher.” However, the Woodses claim that the letter was not threatening and that they discarded it. The Woodses lived in the house for 23 years without incident. In 2015, the couple tried to sue the previous tenants, John and Andrea Woods, over claims of fraudulent concealment, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress and several other issues related to the sale of the property.

The Broaddus family took a $400,000 loss on the property.

The Watcher of Westbrook by Aidyn Corday