As she sat in the passenger seat of her family’s SUV with her wifeJenniferbehind the wheel and her six kids in the back,Sarah Hartsearched Google about whether it would be painful to die.
“How long does it take to die from hypothermia in water while drowning in a car?” Sarah also searched, according to Slates’ testimony.
Sarah began searching at 12:30 a.m. on March 24 as she and her family neared the Washington-Oregon border. She would continue to conduct Google searches along these lines until 6:30 p.m. that night.
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Right after Googling, Sarah would delete each search from her phone, Slate testified.
On Wednesday, experts testified that Sarah had toxic levels of Benadryl inher system at the time of the crash.
Slates testified that shortly after leaving their Woodland, Washington, home on March 23, the family stopped at a Walmart, where Sarah ran inside and bought a bottle of generic brand Benadryl.
Hours later, she would search Google about overdosing.
“Can 500 ml of Benadryl kill a 120 pound woman?” she searched, Slates testified. She reportedly also searched, “How can I easily overdose on over-the-counter medications?” and “What will happen when overdosing with Benadryl?”
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One of the final searches on her phone, Slate testified, was searching for no-kill shelters for dogs.
The family’s dogs have not been accounted for and are believed to have been in the vehicle with the family.
Jennifer Hart drove her family’s SUV off the cliff about 54 hours after she and her family first left their home. On Thursday, a California Highway Patrol expert testified that the crash was intentional.
“When the Harts left their home, I don’t think they knew what they were going to do at that point,” Slates said. “I do think that they knew CPS was there.”
He continued: “One of the final questions I would ask all my witnesses would be, based on how well you know Sarah and Jennifer Hart, would this be an act that they could do? Would they be the type of people that would say ‘If I can’t have my children, nobody can have my children?’ And most of the witnesses either stated, ‘Yes, Jennifer would say that’ or “Yes, that would be a decision that either or both of them would make.'”
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source: people.com
