Do we have a clue?
3 min readAug 13, 2021
I recently saw two documentaries, A Thread of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy, and The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of Fear.
What do the two have in common? Not much, except they reinforce something I’ve been thinking about recently:
We don’t have any clue what’s going on.
The Hart story is about a large family with a white lesbian couple and six adopted African-American children. (One of them was Devonte Hart, who became famous for giving “free hugs.”) They were all killed when mother Jen Hart drove their SUV off a cliff in California with…