Speaker 1: The cliff is the kind of place Jennifer Hart would
Speaker 1: have loved to photograph her kids. Located two hundred miles
Speaker 1: north of San Francisco, it has a green edge bluff
Speaker 1: right off of California's Highway One, with a gravel path
Speaker 1: leading to a dramatic one ft drop into the Pacific.
Speaker 1: On other trips, Jan and her wife Sarah might have
Speaker 1: pulled to the side of the road and had their
Speaker 1: brood line up, as they often did, backs to the camera,
Speaker 1: hands raised in peace signs, a technicolor sunset framing their silhouettes.
Speaker 1: But this trip wouldn't be like the others the hard
Speaker 1: Tribe took to places like Bliss Idaho or Zion National
Speaker 1: Park in Utah. Investigators have been desperate to figure out
Speaker 1: how that family flew off that cliff in California and
Speaker 1: whether it was on purpose. Early the morning of March,
Speaker 1: rescue workers were pelled down the cliff, where they lifted
Speaker 1: the dead bodies of three children. I'm to the point
Speaker 1: where I no longer i'm calling this an accident, I'm
Speaker 1: calling it a crime. Together. We've been looking into this
Speaker 1: story for the past six months, and what has emerged
Speaker 1: is one of the most complex and compelling stories of abuse, neglect, privilege,
Speaker 1: and confusion in the digital age, we've ever encountered. Who
Speaker 1: are these women and how did they come to adopt
Speaker 1: six children, two sets of three black siblings. They are
Speaker 1: one of my early role models for what like a
Speaker 1: non traditional family you could look like. Over the course
Speaker 1: of this cross country journey that leads us from South
Speaker 1: Dakota to Minnesota, to Oregon, Washington, and ultimately a cliff
Speaker 1: in California, you'll also meet a variety of people who
Speaker 1: knew the hearts or thought they did. There's no part
Speaker 1: of me and all of my looking back at my
Speaker 1: observations of them that's capable of seeing that it was
Speaker 1: just a sure And you'll get an exclusive look into
Speaker 1: a case that left six people dead to missing and
Speaker 1: a nation puzzled over the perfect they never knew because
Speaker 1: we would look at our Facebook post. But I guess
Speaker 1: she even post perfect on Facebook. We looked up to
Speaker 1: her like, Wow, she's the best parent in the world.
Speaker 1: Were horrible, We learned now that there was some abuse
Speaker 1: charges in Minnesota there fleeing to Oregon. In public and
Speaker 1: on Facebook, they looked like the perfect family, fun loving, joyful,
Speaker 1: and wacky in the best way. I mean when I
Speaker 1: say that Jim was good, she was good and there
Speaker 1: was no red flags. But as we've learned, sometimes perfect
Speaker 1: is the perfect cover up. I don't out. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: some kids that I feel as being highly abused. The
Speaker 1: little girls jumped out of the second story window on
Speaker 1: the roof and then down on the ground and ran
Speaker 1: to my daughter, And this is like two in the morning,
Speaker 1: begging on the help her, to help her, and she
Speaker 1: was just frantic and begging, you know that take me
Speaker 1: to Seattle. Don't make me go back there. They're racist,
Speaker 1: they're abusive. Kind of figure out what's really going on here.
Speaker 1: She was eating out at the garbage. That's just kind
Speaker 1: of like be a clue right there and there that
Speaker 1: this is a person you don't think can operate in
Speaker 1: the tad's best interests. I remember vaguely hearing that they
Speaker 1: dropped the foster daughter off and like just abandoned her. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I think race is playing a part. You know, when
Speaker 1: people were sitting in the areadias thinking that, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: why did the judge just rule that like something knocked
Speaker 1: right about there that Sens told me about it. I
Speaker 1: just can't live with it. I'm very concerned for these
Speaker 1: kids kits. Maybe he loves you from glamour and how
Speaker 1: stuff works. This is broken hearts