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A New Jersey couple who thought they were buying their dream home are suing its previous owners, claiming the house has a longtime stalker who writes terrorizing letters and signs them "The Watcher."
"Why are you here? I will find out," one of the letters said.
"I am pleased to know your names now and the name of the young blood [child] you have brought to me," another read. "Who has the bedrooms 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."
In another letter (heard on the TV news this morning, NBC Today show), the stalker talks about things (or people?) hidden in the walls, and eventually the new owners will find them.
The short article states that the new owners somehow knew that the previous owners had been receiving threatening letters in the mail too. But during the sale of the house, the previous owners withheld that information.
I'm left wondering, how did the new owners know that the previous owners were receiving these threatening letters too, if the previous owners didn't disclose that information? So many questions.
I hope the new owners win this lawsuit. That $1.3 million home will be difficult/impossible to sell now that the housestalker has been made known. How horrible of the previous owners to sell it to anyone, especially to a young family with a child, knowing that a terrifying stalker was part of the package.
True, 1.3 million dollars is a huge reason to sell, but is there any other route the previous owners could have taken?
One of the stalker's letters said that the home had been in his/her family for years...so surely this stalker can be narrowed down by investigators.
Aren't there police that can deal with this? A little forensic analysis coupled with the fact that the watcher claims that their family has held the house for decades previously.
If anything, "The Watcher" is getting exactly what the want. Lowered property value so they can scoop it up.
Aren't there police that can deal with this? A little forensic analysis coupled with the fact that the watcher claims that their family has held the house for decades previously.
If anything, "The Watcher" is getting exactly what the want. Lowered property value so they can scoop it up.
If "The Watcher" is hoping to scoop up the house, this method is more likely to get him a prison sentence.
I'd like to hear more about the previous owners having knowledge of "The Watcher" which is the basis of the lawsuit. Really crazy. I am surprised it has taken a year for this to come out.
I'm left wondering, how did the new owners know that the previous owners were receiving these threatening letters too, if the previous owners didn't disclose that information? So many questions.
My guess is that investigators contacted the previous owners to ask if they had ever been contacted.
The English language often poses us with this conundrum. There is no pronoun for he/she, so it's common to state unknown genders as "he." It's implied to be neutral.
How did the sellers know that the water was watching the house and not just watching them? You know, there is a good chance that whoever is doing this is doing this to be funny. And just has a weird sense of humor.
How did the sellers know that the water was watching the house and not just watching them? You know, there is a good chance that whoever is doing this is doing this to be funny. And just has a weird sense of humor.
True, the sellers might not have realized it was the house that he/she was after. Maybe they moved because they thought The Watcher was after them personally.
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