An inside look into the hidden, not-so-perfect world of the Hart family whose car plunged off a cliff
Jennifer and Sarah Hart were two white women who adopted six black children, two sets of biological siblings. All of their friends and their ardent followers on Facebook called them the "the perfect people with the perfect kids". Friends called them the "Hart Tribe" and they consisted of 38-year-olds Jennifer and Sarah and their adopted children - Markis, 19, Hannah, 16, Devonte, 15, Abigail, 14, Jeremiah, 14, and Sierra, 12. Their home looked like a happy place from the outside but there is definitely one burning question that the world has when they hear the name of the family: what made Jen Hart drive the family SUV, with the whole family in it, off a 100ft cliff and into the Pacific Ocean right off California's Highway 1? The area where the car plummeted would have normally served as the perfect spot for a family picture but now the once beautiful spot has become a reminder of a terrible tragedy.
Many news outlets, including PEOPLE, reported the case. Images of an SUV lying on its roof at the base of the cliff on a rocky outcrop is what the world got to see of the Hart Tribe in the beginning. Rescue workers were photographed rappelling down the cliff to the car which lay 100ft below. They were able to lift up the bodies of three of the children as well as the mothers from the wreckage.