(CNN) A coroner's jury Thursday unanimously ruled that Jennifer and Sarah Hart intended for their six adopted children to die along with them when Jennifer Hart drove her family off a California cliff in 2018. "The death certificates for Jennifer and Sarah Hart will be listed as suicide," Mendocino County Sheriff-Coroner Thomas Allman told reporters Thursday. The decision capped the coroner's inquest, a public hearing at the end of which a 14-person jury ruled on the official manner of the family's death. Over the two days of the inquest, multiple law enforcement officers, a search-and-rescue leader and a forensic pathologist testified about their involvement in the recovery and investigation into the crash and deaths. According to the Mendocino County Sheriff-Coroner's Office, jurors had the option to find each individual's manner of death as "Accident," "Suicide," "Natural Causes," or "At the hands of another person, other than by accident."

Source: CNN April 05, 2019 02:37 UTC