“I asked the Woods to bring me young blood and it looks like they listened,” one note said, naming the home’s previous owners and seeming to reference the Broaddus’ three children, then ages 5, 8, and 10.
Derek eventually discussed the ongoing notes with the prior owners, the Woods family, who said they hadn’t received a single correspondence across their 23-year tenure at the home – until a few days prior to their move-out date.
The notes became more intrusive as the weeks went on, revealing increasingly intimate details about the family’s lives thanks to, as “The Watcher” said, “all of the windows and doors in 657 Boulevard” that allowed them to “watch” and “track” the Broadduses from outside.
“The workers have been busy and I have been watching you unload carfuls of your personal belongings,” one note, which addressed Maria and Derek by name for the first time, said.
A subsequent investigation – including nighttime observation periods and lots of secret cameras set up around the perimeter and fake letters to the Langfords informing them that they planned to demolish their home – yielded no concrete findings, and the mystery continued as the family moved in with Maria’s parents to escape the horrors of their 657 Boulevard house.
In 2015, they reportedly filed a legal complaint against the Woods family claiming that the prior owners should’ve informed them of the single letter they received.
Maybe something as simple as a mild illness that never seems to go away but makes you fell sick day after day after day after day after day,” the letter read, seeming to indicate manners of death that could befall the Broadduses as revenge.