The cliff is the kind of place Jennifer Hart would have loved to photograph her kids. Located two hundred miles north of San Francisco, it has a green edge bluff right off of California's Highway One, with a gravel path leading to a dramatic one ft drop into the Pacific. On other trips, Jan and her wife Sarah might have pulled to the side of the road and had their brood line up, as they often did, backs to the camera, hands raised in peace signs, a technicolor sunset framing their silhouettes.
But this trip wouldn't be like the others the hard Tribe took to places like Bliss Idaho or Zion National Park in Utah. Investigators have been desperate to figure out how that family flew off that cliff in California and whether it was on purpose. Early the morning of March, rescue workers were pelled down the cliff, where they lifted the dead bodies of three children. I'm to the point where I no longer i'm calling this an accident, I'm
calling it a crime. Together. We've been looking into this story for the past six months, and what has emerged is one of the most complex and compelling stories of abuse, neglect, privilege, and confusion in the digital age, we've ever encountered. Who are these women and how did they come to adopt six children, two sets of three black siblings. They are one of my early role models for what like a
non traditional family you could look like. Over the course of this cross country journey that leads us from South Dakota to Minnesota, to Oregon, Washington, and ultimately a cliff in California, you'll also meet a variety of people who
knew the hearts or thought they did. There's no part of me and all of my looking back at my observations of them that's capable of seeing that it was just a sure And you'll get an exclusive look into a case that left six people dead to missing and a nation puzzled over the perfect they never knew because we would look at our Facebook post. But I guess she even post perfect on Facebook. We looked up to her like, Wow, she's the best parent in the world.
Were horrible, We learned now that there was some abuse charges in Minnesota there fleeing to Oregon. In public and on Facebook, they looked like the perfect family, fun loving, joyful, and wacky in the best way. I mean when I say that Jim was good, she was good and there was no red flags. But as we've learned, sometimes perfect is the perfect cover up. I don't out. Yeah, there's
some kids that I feel as being highly abused. The little girls jumped out of the second story window on the roof and then down on the ground and ran to my daughter, And this is like two in the morning, begging on the help her, to help her, and she was just frantic and begging, you know that take me to Seattle. Don't make me go back there. They're racist, they're abusive. Kind of figure out what's really going on here.
She was eating out at the garbage. That's just kind of like be a clue right there and there that this is a person you don't think can operate in the tad's best interests. I remember vaguely hearing that they dropped the foster daughter off and like just abandoned her. Absolutely. I think race is playing a part. You know, when people were sitting in the areadias thinking that, Okay, well, why did the judge just rule that like something knocked right about there that Sens told me about it. I
just can't live with it. I'm very concerned for these kids kits. Maybe he loves you from glamour and how stuff works. This is broken hearts