Westfield 'Watcher' Home Demolition Plan To Be Heard Monday Night

WESTFIELD, NJ — The application to demolish the Westfield home stalked by “the Watcher” will be heard before the planning board Monday night.

The application was previously scheduled to be heard at the Oct. 5 meeting but was pushed back to Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m.

The owners of the a Westfield home stalked by “the Watcher” filed an applicant seeking approval to subdivide the property into two lots, remove the existing dwelling, and construct two new homes.

As part of the application, the owners are also seeking variances for land use ordiances:

11.07E2 – Ordinance requires a minimum lot width of 70 feet. Proposed is 67.40 feet and 67.60 feet.

11.07E2 – Ordinance requires a minimum lot area of 10,000 square feet within 143 feet of the front property line. Proposed is 9,638 square feet and 9,667 square feet.

11.07E3 – Ordinance requires a minimum lot frontage of 70 feet. Proposed is 67.40 feet and 67.60 feet.

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.”

(Photo, Westfield Realty)

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