WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Planning board members unanimously rejected a plan to demolish a New Jersey home whose owners say they were stalked by an anonymous creepy-letter writer known as “The Watcher.”
Residents who live near the home in Westfield told the board on Wednesday night that the house was “magnificent” and “beautiful” and razing it would destroy their block.
Derek and Maria Broaddus had proposed replacing the house with two homes because they said they cannot move into the existing house. Shortly after buying the six-bedroom house for nearly $1.4 million in 2014, the couple, who have children, said they received three threatening letters from a stalker calling himself “The Watcher.”
The previous owners of the home say the account is fiction want a lawsuit filed by the current owners dismissed.
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