After watching the pathetic documentary "A Thread of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy" (2020), I wasn't sure I wanted to see another film on the Hart family. That documentary was outrageously focused on giving empathy to the two killer mothers. This film, on the other hand, is sane and shows how narcissism should never be mistaken for love. How driving off a cliff in order to kill six children is never acceptable or understandable behavior. How is was simply the easiest way in the mind of Jen Hart to evade CPS, and destroy all evidence of the abuse and starvation of her six adopted children. What would her friends and social media followers think if they knew the truth about how the children were actually treated?
Kudos to Sheriff Tom Allman, psychologist Joni Johnston and journalist Zaron Burnett III for their sane and keen observations about the crime. Mr. Burnett gets a lot of flak in the film reviews at Amazon for his comments about how race played a role in the tragedy. Personally, I think that criticism is unfair, because there was nothing he said that wasn't true and insightful. So much more true and insightful than the comments made by friends defending the Harts in "A Thread of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy".
Discrimination most certainly did play a role in the placement of three black children in a home with two white women in a far away state, when at least one totally responsible biological relative fought hard to adopt them. Jen Hart most certainly did play the role of the white savior saving the poor little black children from their birth family. Her social media posts were filled with such comments. Those three children were placed in their home, too, even though there were already complaints to CPS about abuse of the first three biracial children she and Sarah Hart adopted.
Six children were murdered by women who thought they had the right to kill them. This wasn't even the story about a biological mother who had too many kids too fast, and was suffering from postpartum depression. This was a story about women who tell one lie after another until the day they kill themselves and their adopted children, to avoid the fallout after being exposed as liars. Dead kids, no witnesses to testify. Any bruises and broken bones would be seen as being caused by the crash. No one left to describe what really went on in the Hart household.
