Here’s a look at where the original family is now. TheWatcher
, there’s a real-life family, home and community affected by a mysterious person who upended the lives connected to the Westfield property.
With the series captivating audiences on Netflix, here’s a look at where the original family is now and how residents of the New Jersey town have responded to Murphy’s adaptation of the still-unsolved events that started nearly a decade ago. On the series, Watts and Cannavale play Dean and Nora Brannock, a successful couple of a growing family who put all of their savings into securing the house of their dreams. They are based on Derek and Maria Broaddus, who bought a $1.
Despite a lengthy investigation that involved the police, a former FBI agent who was the inspiration for Clarice Starling in, confrontations with their neighbors, legal complaints involving the previous owners, The Woods, who also received a similar letter while they still lived in the home, and even rogue Reddit users scouring the internet for answers, the identity of"The Watcher" remains unknown.
Unlike the series, which – spoiler alert – puts all the blame on an eccentric private investigator created for the series played by Noma Dumezweni who paid the surrounding neighbors to be part of her elaborate scheme, the family was never able to figure out who was behind the letters. In 2019, after never moving into the home, the Broaddus family sold the property at a considerable loss.
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