It sounds more like a horror flick than real life. I feel terrible for all the people involved, really hope they can get to the bottom of it.

suing the previous owners does not seem like it should be reasonable, some people are just sue happy. If I got letters like that I would use the circular file. The perpetrator is most likely 12.

Where all significant problems with a home have to be revealed to buyers.

This may or may not fall under any such law.

I am curious how long the previous owners had the house.
And why the letter sender cannot be found.

The other poster is right, throw them away. The previous owners were unharmed.

The sender is a real creep and they should look for them. But it appears at most to be "disorderly conduct."

If they told the neighbors and friends they sold because of the watcher, then there might be some responsibility.

It all hinges on what the plaintiff can prove. So far, it seems the previous owners have said too much in admitting receipt of the letters previously.

I too would have tossed the letters. But I don't have kids.

I would think the Feds could get involved since the U.S. Postal Service was used. Hopefully, the "watcher" didn't cover his tracks beyond the FBI's capability.

It sure doesn't help the house looks like The Amityville Horror house.

really, I heard about someone who bought a house with Cat pee in it for far below cost, it was being sold by the children of a cat lady who were open about the dozens of cats that lived in the house and peed on the floor., but when the new owners moved in they found they had to replace all the floors, they sued the previous owners and got the price of the house back, sounds like they got a good deal even though they were informed before hand, Sorry, Now this would be the real nanny state if this crap keeps up. They saved enough on the price of the house that they could afford to replace the floors.

this reads like the start of a bad horror movie where they run and hide behind the chain saws as seen on TV.
I would look for a teenager in the vicinity. Houses have for sale signs on their lawns and Sold signs after wards.

I wouldn't.

Aside from whether or not the letters are real, in many states the sellers have the responsibility to disclose defects or problems with a property. Receiving threatening letters that acknowledge the sale and indicate a possible threat against the buyers should be considered a "defect." That is why there is a lawsuit - the sellers did not disclose receipt of the letter they got just before closing.

now if someone had told me I would receive phone calls 3 times a day from "microsoft" and they would need to access my computer - well, that would be another story,. Can't block them because they spoof their number.

This is just paper and ink of someone who is getting their jollies from these idiots (or clever scammers). What fun to read about this in the local paper, I still go with a teenager in the vicinity who is laughing their butt off.

Right now I am kind of concerned about a senior in our area that was killed by his lawn guy, since I had to hire a lawn guy.

No doubt, many people told Rebecca Schaeffer that the creepy letters she received read like a bad horror movie and her concerns were unfounded...

One wonders if she too, bought a bridge.

that case she was being stalked, not the house. not =.

I'm going to drive by next time I'm there. If it's the one I'm thinking of, it really is huge.

Personally, I don't think I would let this bother me much. It's probably some nutty neighbor who liked having the house empty. Maybe the previous owner had five or six kids who weren't well supervised, thus he came up with this innovative plan for keeping the house empty.

It smacks of somebody who watched too many horror flicks.


Cher

Because the 19-room house itself was destroyed by arson:

The List home was destroyed by arson ten months after the murders, a crime which remains unsolved. Destroyed along with the home was the ballroom's stained glass skylight, rumored to be a signed Tiffany original worth over $100,000.[6] (Wikipedia)

There's another connection to macabre houses in Westfield, and that is through Charles Addams, who, along with Edward Gorey (Maine, I believe), both illustrated for The New Yorker. Here is an example of one of Addams' creepy houses:



Addams used the houses of Westfield as inspiration for the spooky houses in his cartoons.



Cher

I thought the same at first. Then when it said the List house had burned, I had to re-read the article carefully.