They may have moved out of 657 Boulevard, but the story still haunts them TheWatcher
If you’re familiar with the true story behind The Watcher, you may be wondering where Maria and Derek Broaddus are now and what happened to them after they moved out of the house from hell.
So…where are Maria and Derek Broaddus now and what is the true story about The Watcher house? Read on for what we know about where Maria and Derek Broaddus are now and what happened to them since they moved out of 657 Boulevard. What is The Watcher true story? Maria and Derek Broaddus were the inspirations for Nora and Dean Braddock in Netflix’s 2022 miniseries, The Watcher, which is based on a 2018 New York Magazine article of the same title.
After they received the letter, the Broaddus family contacted the previous owners of the home, John and Andrea Woods, who told them they had only received one letter from “The Watcher” in the 23 years they lived at the house but threw it away because it was sent days before they moved out. When the Woods and Broaddus families told the police about the letters, the officers instructed them to keep quiet as all of their neighbors were now suspects.
In the spring of 2016, the Broaddus family found a family willing to rent the house from them on the condition they could move out if another letter arrived. Two weeks after the renters moved in, the house received another letter from The Watcher addressed to “The vile and spiteful Derek and his wench of a wife Maria.