Hart family crash: Searchers find cellphone near site of deadly SUV plunge
Source: CBS News
CBS/AP April 6, 2018, 12:21 AM
MENDOCINO, Calif. -- Searchers looking for three missing children whose family's SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff have found a cellphone that could have belonged to a member of the large brood. On Wednesday, Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman told HLN's "Crime & Justice with Ashleigh Banfield" that he is "calling it a crime," CBS Portland affiliate KOIN reports.
"I'm to the point where I no longer am calling this an accident," Allman told HLN. "I'm calling it a crime."
There was no sign of the siblings who were missing but presumed dead in the crash that killed Sarah and Jennifer Hart and three of their other adopted children. Five bodies were found March 26 near Mendocino, a few days after Washington state authorities began investigating the Harts for possible child neglect.
Dozens of people combed miles of coastline Wednesday. The Mendocino County sheriff's office told Portland, Oregon, TV station KOIN that a searcher found a cellphone that was being analyzed.
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