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Podcast: True Crime Society
Episode: The New Jersey Watcher (Happy Halloween!)
Description: It’s Halloween time at True Crime Society!
You have probably already binged ‘The Watcher’ on Netflix : Ominous letters. Strange neighbors. Sinister threats. A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they’ve inherited a nightmare.
The show is based on the true story of the Broaddus family. In 2014, Maria and Derek Broaddus paid $1.3m for their dream family home on 657 Boulevard in Westfield, NJ. Three days after they closed on the house, their nightmare began.
‘The Watcher’ would send them disturbing and threatening letters. This is an excerpt from one of the letters received:
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