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Jennifer and Sarah Hart, 38, were a married pair of crunchy white liberals who, by all outside appearances, seemed like dedicated mothers to their six adopted black children: Markis, Hannah, Abigail, Devonte, Jeremiah and Ciera. They moved around the country with their home-schooled brood, but in2017 they settled — for good — in Woodland, Washington.
Jen and Sarah schlepped their kids to music festivals, posting glowy photos and gushy, too-good-to-be-true status updates all over Facebook. So why, in March of 2018, did a drunkJen Hart drive the family’s SUVoff a rocky California cliff at 90 miles per hour,annihilatingher entire family? (The bodies of Devonte and Hannah Hart have not yet been recovered.)
Broken Harts, produced byGlamourmagazine and How Stuff Works, investigates every angle of this multi-faceted tragedy, attempting to answer some of the countless questions attached to the case. And the true story of the Hart family, plus what went on behind its idyllic veneer, is beyond heart-wrenching. The children were not onlydocumented, repeated victims of Jen and Sarah’s physical abuse, but they werefailed by a racist Texas adoption and foster care systemthat could have protected them from this murderous outcome —and didn’t.
