Two White Moms. Six Black Kids. One Unthinkable Tragedy. A Look Inside the ‘Perfect’ Hart Family

[jmyrlefuller]

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/two-white-moms-six-black-kids-one-unthinkable-tragedy-a-look-inside-the-perfect-hart-family

by Lauren Smiley, Glamour
September 6, 2018

The cliff is exactly the kind of place Jennifer Hart loved to photograph her kids for Facebook. It has a green-edged bluff right off California's Highway 1, with a gravel strip leading straight to a dramatic 100-foot drop into the Pacific. In other circumstances, on other trips, Jen and her wife, Sarah, might have pulled to the side of the road and lined up their brood as they often did: backs to the camera, hands raised in peace signs, a Technicolor sunset framing their silhouettes. They were Markis, 19, Hannah, 16, Devonte, 15, Abigail, 14, Jeremiah, 14, and Sierra, 12—two sets of black biological siblings adopted by two white moms—a beautiful family, by most accounts. Friends called them the Hart Tribe.

But the photo from March 26 would not be like the other pictures taken on countless family road trips. The photo the world saw from that day was of the family Yukon belly-up on the rocks below the scenic overpass. After rescue workers rappelled down the cliff, they lifted the dead bodies of three children and spotted two more corpses: 38-year-old Sarah in the back and Jen, also 38, in the driver's seat. The coroner found diphenhydramine, an ingredient commonly found in allergy medicines like Benadryl, in the bodies of Sarah and two of the kids; Jen's blood alcohol content was over the legal limit. No one had been wearing a seatbelt. The car's computer revealed that Jen had stopped on a gravel pullout some 70 feet from the cliff moments before the free fall, and then accelerated. "I'm to the point where I no longer am calling this as an accident," the county sheriff declared 10 days later. "I'm calling it a crime."

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[PeteS in CA]

This happened in spring 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/06/us/hart-family-crash-inquest-searches/index.html , https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,310009.0.html .

[jmyrlefuller]

This happened in spring 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/06/us/hart-family-crash-inquest-searches/index.html , https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,310009.0.html .

Hence why it's in General Discussion. (With the date clearly marked.) it's an interesting deep dive into the story.

Every so often the aggregators I peruse come up with an older story worth sharing.

[mountaineer]

I remember this. Bizarre and sad.

[Smokin Joe]

Hence why it's in General Discussion. (With the date clearly marked.) it's an interesting deep dive into the story.

Every so often the aggregators I peruse come up with an older story worth sharing.

Thanks, @jmyrlefuller
Interesting, and disturbing at the same time. We will never know the depths of what went on there.

[Sighlass]

Hence why it's in General Discussion. (With the date clearly marked.) it's an interesting deep dive into the story.

Every so often the aggregators I peruse come up with an older story worth sharing.

I remember this story too.... there is no perfect family but they sure wanted to present one to the big cruel racist homophobic world. Kids need a mother and father, not two unstable lesbians to raise them.

Want to go just as warped, the two gay guys from Atlanta that ended up pimping out their adopted kids after molesting them.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/20/couple-pimped-their-adopted-sons-out-to-pedophile-ring-report/