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Dark House

The Watcher House Part 2 (Westfield, NJ) Feat. Psychology Instructor Casey Lytle

Dark House

House Beautiful/Hearst

Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4757 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Following their discussion of The Watcher House, Alyssa and Hadley are joined by psychology and sociology instructor Casey Lytle—who specializes in conspiracy theories, deception, and murder—to review the many possible suspects of the still-unsolved case. Casey weighs in on which suspects and theories are the most realistic, shares his take on other famous true crime cases, and provides some insight into the psychology of murder and stalking.  RELATED LINKS 'Debunked: Separate the Rational from the Irrational in Influential Conspiracy Theories' by Casey Lytle: https://amzn.to/3W1HHv6 'Psychology of Murder: The traits we share with killers' by Casey Lytle: https://amzn.to/3uUsbFp CREDITS Alyssa Fiorentino - Co-host & Producer Hadley Mendelsohn - Co-host & Producer Jessy Caron - Producer Jacob Stone - Sound Editor & Mixer Ian Munsell - Assistant Audio Engineer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The majority of murders every year are not by criminals, not by people with mental illness.

0:35.4

It's people just like you and me. Usually moments of irrational rage where, you know, it may be something we never thought we could do,

0:43.3

but we just happen to have the circumstances hit us right at the wrong time.

0:58.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to Dark House. I'm Melissa Furentino.

1:08.4

And I'm Hadley Mendelsohn. If you're new here, each episode we dig into the backstory of a haunted house or otherwise notorious home and unpack all of the events that led to its eventual infamy. In our last episode, we discussed 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey, also known as the Watcher House.

1:15.5

If you haven't listened to that episode yet, make sure to do that and then come back.

1:19.2

If you have had a chance to listen, here's a quick refresher.

1:22.8

On June 5, 2014, just three days after closing on their new home, Derek and Maria Broadus began receiving

1:28.9

threatening letters from an anonymous stalker who called themselves The Watcher. The letters were so

1:34.9

creepy that the Bratuses never moved into the house, and they struggled for years to find

1:38.8

someone brave enough to buy it. Though the house finally sold in 2019, to this day, the watcher has

1:44.0

never been identified.

1:45.6

So last week we went over everything, the letters, findings from both the official and

1:50.1

unofficial investigations, all of the issues that the broadest is dealt with when they tried to

1:54.8

sell the house, and a rundown of the former owners and closest neighbors at the time the letters

1:59.9

were written. Today we'll be taking a closer look at the suspects who and closest neighbors at the time the letters were written. Today we'll be

2:01.8

taking a closer look at the suspects who could have been behind the letters, and joining us will be

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