derek and maria broadus bought what they thought was their forever home.on house in westfield. >> the broughtuses could not be a more normal suburban american family. they'd gotten to this point in their lives where they had some financial security, they could of theirs with their three kids. >> reporter: but the house came with a sinister threat. a watcher who sent the family several menacing letters alluding to imminent danger. >> the letters themselves are kind of impossibly creepy and spooky and scary. >> reporter: reid switeman wrote the shocking "new york" magazine article detailing their ordeal. he saw the letters firsthand. the letters recreated in "the watcher" with naomi watts and bobby canavale. >> i am pleased to know your names and the names of the young blood you've brought me. >> reporter: it incorporates westfield's notorious list family murders and has become a massive hit, 125 million hours streamed and counting, according to "deadline." despite a police investigation, private investigators, and forensic analysts looking into the case, th

hit netflix series called "the watcher," and it's based on a true story n 2014 derrick broadus and his wife maria$1.36 million home in the suburb of westfield, new jersey. in the series they're called dean and nora. after beginning renovations, the couple began receiving creepy letters from an anonymous person calling him or herself "the watcher" and claimed to have been watching the house for years as their father and grandfather had before them. do you know what lies within the walls of 657 boulevard? why are you here? i will find out. more letters followed. the writer showed familiarity with the family's children, referred to them as young blood. threatened quote, once i know their names, i will call to them and draw them to me. the family reported the letters to the local police. they hired a private investigator. but to this day they have never learned who sent them. "the watcher" based on a story published by my next guest, reeves wideman. in "new york" magazine he recently revisited the case taking another look at the watcher, what we know about the case four years later. reeves joins me n