WEBVTT - Broken Harts Trailer

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<v Speaker 1>The cliff is the kind of place Jennifer Hart would

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<v Speaker 1>have loved to photograph her kids. Located two hundred miles

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<v Speaker 1>north of San Francisco, it has a green edge bluff

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<v Speaker 1>right off of California's Highway One, with a gravel path

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<v Speaker 1>leading to a dramatic one ft drop into the Pacific.

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<v Speaker 1>On other trips, Jan and her wife Sarah might have

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<v Speaker 1>pulled to the side of the road and had their

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<v Speaker 1>brood line up, as they often did, backs to the camera,

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<v Speaker 1>hands raised in peace signs, a technicolor sunset framing their silhouettes.

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<v Speaker 1>But this trip wouldn't be like the others the hard

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<v Speaker 1>Tribe took to places like Bliss Idaho or Zion National

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<v Speaker 1>Park in Utah. Investigators have been desperate to figure out

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<v Speaker 1>how that family flew off that cliff in California and

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<v Speaker 1>whether it was on purpose. Early the morning of March,

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<v Speaker 1>rescue workers were pelled down the cliff, where they lifted

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<v Speaker 1>the dead bodies of three children. I'm to the point

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<v Speaker 1>where I no longer i'm calling this an accident, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>calling it a crime. Together. We've been looking into this

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<v Speaker 1>story for the past six months, and what has emerged

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<v Speaker 1>is one of the most complex and compelling stories of abuse, neglect, privilege,

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<v Speaker 1>and confusion in the digital age, we've ever encountered. Who

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<v Speaker 1>are these women and how did they come to adopt

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<v Speaker 1>six children, two sets of three black siblings. They are

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<v Speaker 1>one of my early role models for what like a

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<v Speaker 1>non traditional family you could look like. Over the course

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<v Speaker 1>of this cross country journey that leads us from South

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<v Speaker 1>Dakota to Minnesota, to Oregon, Washington, and ultimately a cliff

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<v Speaker 1>in California, you'll also meet a variety of people who

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<v Speaker 1>knew the hearts or thought they did. There's no part

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<v Speaker 1>of me and all of my looking back at my

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<v Speaker 1>observations of them that's capable of seeing that it was

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<v Speaker 1>just a sure And you'll get an exclusive look into

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<v Speaker 1>a case that left six people dead to missing and

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<v Speaker 1>a nation puzzled over the perfect they never knew because

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<v Speaker 1>we would look at our Facebook post. But I guess

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<v Speaker 1>she even post perfect on Facebook. We looked up to

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<v Speaker 1>her like, Wow, she's the best parent in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Were horrible, We learned now that there was some abuse

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<v Speaker 1>charges in Minnesota there fleeing to Oregon. In public and

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<v Speaker 1>on Facebook, they looked like the perfect family, fun loving, joyful,

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<v Speaker 1>and wacky in the best way. I mean when I

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<v Speaker 1>say that Jim was good, she was good and there

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<v Speaker 1>was no red flags. But as we've learned, sometimes perfect

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<v Speaker 1>is the perfect cover up. I don't out. Yeah, there's

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<v Speaker 1>some kids that I feel as being highly abused. The

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<v Speaker 1>little girls jumped out of the second story window on

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<v Speaker 1>the roof and then down on the ground and ran

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<v Speaker 1>to my daughter, And this is like two in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>begging on the help her, to help her, and she

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<v Speaker 1>was just frantic and begging, you know that take me

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<v Speaker 1>to Seattle. Don't make me go back there. They're racist,

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<v Speaker 1>they're abusive. Kind of figure out what's really going on here.

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<v Speaker 1>She was eating out at the garbage. That's just kind

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<v Speaker 1>of like be a clue right there and there that

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<v Speaker 1>this is a person you don't think can operate in

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<v Speaker 1>the tad's best interests. I remember vaguely hearing that they

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<v Speaker 1>dropped the foster daughter off and like just abandoned her. Absolutely.

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<v Speaker 1>I think race is playing a part. You know, when

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<v Speaker 1>people were sitting in the areadias thinking that, Okay, well,

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<v Speaker 1>why did the judge just rule that like something knocked

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<v Speaker 1>right about there that Sens told me about it. I

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<v Speaker 1>just can't live with it. I'm very concerned for these

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<v Speaker 1>kids kits. Maybe he loves you from glamour and how

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<v Speaker 1>stuff works. This is broken hearts