So naturally, we’ve laid out a detailed timeline of what really happened at The Watcher house so you can properly dissect it (and we even dedicated two episodes of our haunted house podcast, Dark House, to analyzing the bizarre tale). While the show is based on the true story of a stalker who used creepy letters to terrorize the owners of a New Jersey home, the dramatization takes a few departures from the real story. They were already living in another house in Westfield.Netflix’s new limited series The Watcher has officially hit the streaming service. The family wasn't moving to the suburbs from New York City, as depicted in the show, for one thing. So their last name, number and ages of kids, and other details were changed. The Broaddus family didn't get very involved with the show, except to request that Netflix make the fictional family unlike their own, Wiedeman says. The letters themselves were typed, with the signature typed in a different font than the body of the letters. Wiedeman hopes a show viewer will identify the distinct handwriting on the envelopes of the letters. The article also says the family offered to pay to have the DNA uploaded to a genealogy database and traced that way, but the prosecutor's office refused. The Broaddus family was told no one who gave DNA matched, but Wiedeman points out that not everyone in the neighborhood was tested. In an update to the New York Magazine article, Wiedeman says the prosecutor's office asked neighbors to voluntarily give DNA samples to be matched against the envelope DNA. The police have not found the source of the DNA, but have said it wasn't the female owner of the house. The DNAĪ 2015, DNA analysis reports that a woman licked the envelope on at least one of the letters, though it could be that The Watcher asked someone else to seal the envelope. It appears two other homeowners in the neighborhood received one Watcher letter each, but theirs were more admiring of their homes, not threatening. A fourth came much later and seems possibly a copycat - it's angrier, Wiedeman says, and more focused on the Broaddus family's hopes to tear down the house and build two on its large lot. There were three letters threatening the new owners. Reeves Wiedeman, the New York Magazine reporter whose story is the basis for the series, talked about them to New York's Vulture. The letters are obviously the biggest clue. Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale buy a beautiful house, but never get to enjoy it. It appears showrunners Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan just couldn't resist slipping the town's most infamous resident into their plot. List did live in Westfield, but not at 657 Boulevard. There's a character in the show, John Graff, who the show sets up as having once lived in the house. (No real pets were killed in the actual Watcher case.) (Zillow even has a fake listing page where Calhoun advertises the house.) Then, in the final episode, she herself buys the house, and is immediately stalked in person by a hooded watcher (dog lovers, skip this episode). In the show, a real estate agent named Karen Calhoun (Jennifer Coolidge) sells the Brannocks the house. None of that happened, and no one knows who The Watcher is, or why they did what they did. The family learns at Theodora's funeral that she just made this up to give them some closure. First, the show invents a private detective, Theodora Birch (Noma Dumezweni), and has her confess to being The Watcher on her deathbed. But the last episode of the Netflix series starts fictionalizing like crazy. To this day, The Watcher remains unidentified.
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