Owners Of Westfield's 'Watcher' Home Apply To Demolish Property

WESTFIELD, NJ — The owners of the a Westfield home stalked by “the Watcher” has filed an application with the Planning Board to tear down the house.

The application calls to subdivide the property into two lots and remove the existing house to replace it with two new homes, according Linda Jacus, Secretary with the Westfield Planning Board and Board of Adjustment.

The Planning Board will hear the application 7:30 p.m. during the Oct. 5 meeting.

The owners — who purchased the $1.3 million “dream home” in Westfield in June 2014 — have been in a legal battle with the current owners after they started receiving disturbing letters from a stalker who identified himself as “The Watcher.”

Such disturbing letters from the “The Watcher” reportedly included, “My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. It is now my time.”

“Do you need to fill the house with the young blood I requested? Once I know their names I will call to them and draw them to me. I asked the (prior owners) to bring me young blood,” the stalker also reportedly wrote.

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The owners, who have three children, were too scared to move in to the six-bedroom house due to alleged threats the letters and claim they couldn't sell it because of all of the publicity and the creepy letters they received from “The Watcher.”

(Photos, Westfield Realty)

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