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 The search continued Wednesday for three missing children of the family whose car plunged off a California cliff last week, as investigators came closer to piecing together a timeline of their final days. 
 
 The California Highway Patrol released a surveillance image from a Safeway in Fort Bragg taken March 25 — a day before the Hart family's SUV was found crashed at the bottom of a rocky shoreline about 15 miles to the north. 
 
 Authorities have said no skid marks were found at the top of the dirt turnout where the GMC Yukon pulled off, and believe the crash may have been intentional. 
 
 The surveillance photo shows mom Jennifer Hart, 38, purchasing bananas and other groceries. It's unclear where her wife, Sarah, also 38, and their six adopted children were at the time. 
 
 A surveillance photo shows Jennifer Hart, right, at the Safeway in Fort Bragg, California on March 25, 2018. California Highway Patrol 
 
 The CHP said in a news release it was analyzing the store's footage with FBI agents in an attempt to enhance the blurry viewing quality. 
 
 The investigation has included interviewing neighbors and searching the family's home in Woodland, Washington, about 25 miles north of Portland, Oregon. 
 
 Based on the surveillance footage as well as cellphone pings, police have come up with the family's travel itinerary: They were south of Portland at around 8:15 a.m. local time on March 24, then continued moving south along a coastal route, crossing into Northern California. By 8 p.m., they were in the Fort Bragg area. 
 
 They remained there until about 9 p.m. the next day. At some point, they decided to venture north along Highway 1. And on March 26, just after 3:30 p.m., a passerby called police about an upside down SUV that had fallen 70 feet to the embankment below. ||||| PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- The Hart family was in the Newport area around 8:15 a.m. March 24, about 2 days before their GMC Yukon went over a cliff and into the Pacific Ocean, killing 5 people and leaving 3 more missing. 
 
 Cell phone pings placed them in the Newport area, KOIN 6 News learned. 
 
 Investigators from the California Highway Patrol and the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said they determined the family traveled south on US-101 from Newport until they got to Highway 1 in Legget, California. 
 
 They stayed on Highway 1 until they got to Fort Bragg around 8 p.m. Saturday, March 24, and stayed there until about 9 p.m. Sunday. 
 
 Jennifer Hart was spotted at 8:05 a.m. on March 25 at a Safeway in Fort Bragg, and investigators released that surveillance photo. 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The route the Hart family took from Oregon to Fort Bragg, California before plunging off a cliff on March 26, 2018 (KOIN) 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The route the Hart family took from Oregon to Fort Bragg, California before plunging off a cliff on March 26, 2018 (KOIN) 
 
 But investigators do not have any further information about where they were between then and the time their SUV was spotted by a German tourist on Monday, March 26. 
 
 Other sighting 
 
 Jennifer Hart may have been seen in surveillance video from Fort Bragg, California a day before the family's SUV plunged off a cliff -- killing Jennifer, her wife Sarah and 3 of their children. 
 
 The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office confirmed to KOIN 6 News Tuesday that they're investigating whether the woman shown in the video is Jennifer, however, they said the footage is grainy -- making it difficult to tell. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Jennifer and Sarah Hart in an undated photo. (Courtesy photo to KOIN) 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Jennifer and Sarah Hart in an undated photo. (Courtesy photo to KOIN) 
 
 The possible sighting in Fort Bragg is about 20 miles from where the crash happened. Authorities plan to canvass that area -- including other businesses -- in hopes they can find out if the whole family was together, which could help narrow the search for the 3 missing children. 
 
 On Wednesday, crews are expected to search about 20 miles of the shoreline from the crash site to the Fort Bragg area. 
 
 Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38, were found dead March 26 at the bottom of a California cliff. Their 3 adopted children -- 19-year-old Markis, 14-year-old Jeremiah and 14-year-old Abigail -- were also found dead near the SUV. 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The scene where Sarah and Jennifer Hart's SUV plunged about 100 feet into the ocean -- killing them and 3 of their children. The whereabouts of their other 3 kids are currently unknown, March 28, 2018. (Courtesy: Fort Bragg Advocate-News) 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The scene where Sarah and Jennifer Hart's SUV plunged about 100 feet into the ocean -- killing them and 3 of their children. The whereabouts of their other 3 kids are currently unknown, March 28, 2018. (Courtesy: Fort Bragg Advocate-News) 
 
 The couple's 3 other children -- 15-year-old Devonte, 16-year-old Hannah and 12-year-old Sierra -- are still missing. But Sheriff Tom Allman said there is "every indication" all 6 children were inside the SUV at the time. 
 
 Authorities said on Sunday that they believe the crash was an "intentional act" because of air bag evidence and because there was no tire friction by the cliff's edge. 
 
 The California Highway Patrol spokesperson told KOIN 6 News that the vehicle -- a 2003 GMC SUV -- came to a stop 70-feet from the edge-- approximately 5 feet off the highway -- before it accelerated and plunged off the cliff. 
 
 "It was pure acceleration from last break application until it hit the bottom of the ocean -- the edge of the ocean," said Greg Baarts with CHP. 
 
 The SUV's speedometer was also pinned at 90 mph, though it''s no guarantee the vehicle was going that fast during the crash. The crash may have caused that number. 
 
 Authorities are still investigating the crash. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A CBS News animation shows the Hart family SUV on its path to plunging off a cliff in California, killing 5 people. Three more are missing, March 29, 2018 (KOIN) 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A CBS News animation shows the Hart family SUV on its path to plunging off a cliff in California, killing 5 people. Three more are missing, March 29, 2018 (KOIN) 
 
 Authorities searched the Hart home in Woodland, Washington on Thursday, March 29 and said no suicide note was found. They're also trying to figure out why the Harts were in California. 
 
 KOIN 6 News also learned that the West Linn Police Department was contacted about the Harts in 2013, but they said the case was forwarded to DHS, who couldn't confirm or deny that fact. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Officials served a search warrant at the Hart home in Woodland Thursday, March 29, 2018. (KOIN) 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Officials served a search warrant at the Hart home in Woodland Thursday, March 29, 2018. (KOIN) 
 
 Jennifer and Sarah recently moved to Woodland with their children from West Linn, where they had lived since 2014. In 2010 when they lived in Minnesota, Sarah Hart was arrested and later convicted of a gross misdemeanor for hitting one of the children, who was 6 at the time. She served a year on probation. 
 
 The court documents revealed a teacher noticed bruises on the child's back and stomach after the child said her mom had hit her. She also said her mom wouldn't give them lunch when they were grounded. 
 
 In talking with police, Sarah Hart said the kids always got food but admitted spanking her daughter the day before and that it got out of control. 
 
 The police report said "that her mom had put her in the bathtub and turned on cold water and then hit her...also stated that her mom had hit her with a fist. When asked what she had done to make her mom mad, (the child) said that she had a penny in her pocket and that this made her mom mad." 
 
 Detective Sgt. Larry Dailey of the Alexandria, Minnesota police told KOIN 6 News the Harts talked with the police on their own accord but left him with the impression they thought there was a lot being made over just regular parental discipline. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A 2016 photo of the Hart family shown at a press conference by the Mendocino County (California) sheriff at a press conference about the cliff crash that killed at least 5 of the family members from Woodland, Washington (via KRON) 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A 2016 photo of the Hart family shown at a press conference by the Mendocino County (California) sheriff at a press conference about the cliff crash that killed at least 5 of the family members from Woodland, Washington (via KRON) 
 
 Later, the Harts left Minnesota and moved to Oregon, settling in West Linn. There, they homeschooled their children. However, Clackamas Education Services District said they have no records of the Hart family filing a declaration of intent to homeschool their children. 
 
 In late 2017, they moved to Woodland, where 2 of the children reached out to neighbors Bruce and Dana Dekalb. 
 
 "Their daughters telling us, 'Please, please, please,' begging us not to make her go back and that they were abusing her," Dana Dekalb said. "And then Devonte telling us he's being starved to death." 
 
 The Dekalbs called Child Protective Services, who visited the family 3 times in the days before the crash -- but never made contact with the Harts. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A March 28, 2018 aerial image from Alameda County Sheriff's Office drone video shows the pullout where the SUV of Jennifer and Sarah Hart was recovered off the off Pacific Coast Highway 1, near Westport, Calif (Alameda County Sheriff's Office via AP) 
 
 Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A March 28, 2018 aerial image from Alameda County Sheriff's Office drone video shows the pullout where the SUV of Jennifer and Sarah Hart was recovered off the off Pacific Coast Highway 1, near Westport, Calif (Alameda County Sheriff's Office via AP) 
 
 After news of the crash, the Dekalbs got a phone call from someone who said he knew the Harts from Minnesota.The friend told the Dekalbs he thought they had unfairly targeted the Harts, perhaps out of bigotry. 
 
 KOIN 6 News contacted that person -- who would only identify himself as "a close friend of the Hart family from Minnesota." He said the Harts were a wholesome, loving family who overcame a lot of adversity. If they were abusive, the friends would have known, he said. 
 
 Asked if he knew Sarah had been convicted of domestic assault in Minnesota, the "close friend of the Hart family from Minnesota" said he just learned about it from media reports, but that everybody makes mistakes. 
 
 And, he added, those who knew the Harts will remember them as great people. ||||| A surveillance video that appears to show one of the Hart mothers is being reviewed as a possible clue in deciphering the route the eight family members took — and in the search of the three children who were reported missing but presumed dead — after their SUV plunged off a California cliff last week. 
 
 Authorities have spent days retracing the "Hart Tribe’s" steps since the family’s battered SUV was found overturned at the bottom of a cliff just off the Pacific Coast Highway, about 150 miles north of San Francisco. The investigation found the family of eight was believed to be in the Newport, Ore. area around 8:15 a.m. on March 24, two days before their vehicle was found, California Highway Patrol said in a Wednesday news release. 
 
 “It is believed they continued south along US 101 until they reached State Route 1 in Leggett, California. The family traveled south along State Route 1 until they reached the Fort Bragg area in Mendocino County around 8:00pm on Saturday evening, March 24, 2018,” the news release read. 
 
 WHERE ARE THE HART CHILDREN? INVESTIGATORS RETRACE ROUTE OF DOOMED FAMILY WHO PLUNGED OFF CLIFF 
 
 A map released by California Highway Patrol showed the coastal route the family possibly took. Authorities retraced the route based on cellphone pings, Officer Cal Robertson told Oregon Live. 
 
 Police said the route goes cold, however, by Sunday night. A surveillance video taken just after 8 a.m. at a Safeway in Fort Bragg appeared to show Jennifer Hart at the register buying bananas and several other items. It’s unclear where the Harts went after the incident. 
 
 Initial reports said there were signs that suggested the family planned for a short trip. 
 
 Their SUV, a 2003 GMC Yukon LX with black rims, was found on March 26 with Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38, inside the vehicle. Authorities found the bodies of three children — Markis Hart, 19; Jeremiah Hart, 14; Abigail Hart, 14 — at the scene. 
 
 Devonte Hart, 15, Hannah Hart, 16, and Sierra Hart, 12, are still missing. Mendocino County Sheriff Lt. Shannon Barney said rescuers will be searching the water near the crash site Wednesday morning for the three children, who were presumed to be in the vehicle at the time of the crash, Oregon Live reported. 
 
 On Tuesday, Alexandra Argyropoulos, a former friend of the family, told The Associated Press she alerted Oregon welfare officials about Jennifer and Sarah Hart because she felt they were withholding meals from their six adopted children. Argyropoulos said she "witnessed [in 2013] what I felt to be controlling emotional abuse and cruel punishment" toward the children by the couple, who were living in West Linn at the time. 
 
 "My heart is completely broken. The current system failed to protect these children from their abusers," Argyropoulos said. 
 
 Argyropoulos said she was told the children had been interviewed but there was nothing more the Oregon Department of Human Services could do because there was not enough evidence to make a case. 
 
 CALIFORNIA CLIFF PLUNGE INVESTIGATION FOCUSES ON UNACCOUNTED-FOR HART TRIBE CHILDREN 
 
 A similar instance also prompted neighbors Bruce and Dana DeKalb to alert Child Protective Services three days before the family was found dead. They feared Devonte — who gained nationwide fame after a photo of him at a 2014 Portland, Ore., rally holding a “Free Hugs” sign went viral — was going hungry because he'd been coming over to their house too often in the past week asking for food. 
 
 Authorities attempted to reach the family three times and made their third attempt the day after their SUV was found. 
 
 Investigators believe the deadly crash may have not been an accident — as originally thought — after evidence suggested the driver, Jennifer Hart, accelerated off the side of the road. Court documents stated the speedometer of the SUV was pinned at 90 mph, though authorities warned the device could have been altered at impact. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report. ||||| A 15-year-old boy featured in a widely shared photo of him hugging a Portland police officer in 2014 is one of two children still missing after an SUV with their family inside plunged off a Northern California cliff. 
 
 Devonte Hart and his sister Hannah, 16, have yet to be found since the wreckage was discovered March 26 by a passer-by off Route 1 near Westport, California. The crash killed Jennifer Hart and Sarah Hart, both 38, and their children, Markis Hart, 19; Abigail Hart, 14; Jeremiah Hart, 14; and Sierra Hart, 12. Sierra Hart's legal name is "Ciera." 
 
 Here's a timeline of what we know so far: 
 
 March 2004: Earliest known public record that shows Jennifer Hart and Sarah Gengler, both from South Dakota, residing in Alexandria, Minnesota. 
 
 April 2005: The couple is licensed to provide child foster care in Douglas County, Minnesota, for almost two years beginning April 1, 2005. 
 
 May 2005: Sarah Hart petitions to change her last name from Gengler to Hart. 
 
 August 2006: A Harris County District Court (Texas) judge orders the parental rights of the biological parents of Devonte, Jeremiah, Sierra and a fourth child terminated. 
 
 September 2006: Jennifer and Sarah Hart adopt siblings Markis, Abigail and Hannah. 
 
 December 2006: The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services removes Devonte, Jeremiah, Sierra and a fourth child from the care of an aunt, Priscilla Celestine, after a caseworker visit. The children are then placed in foster care. 
 
 May 2007: The aunt, Celestine, files a petition to adopt all four children while they are being cared for by the state of Texas. The petition is denied in Harris County District Court the next year. The aunt files a motion for a new trial, and that is denied as well. 
 
 September 2008: According to a police report from Alexandria, Minnesota, Hannah, then 6, tells authorities that one of her mothers bruised her with a belt. Asked about the beating, Jennifer and Sarah Hart tell a police investigator and social worker the girl had fallen down the stairs. 
 
 October 2008: Celestine appeals to a Texas appeals court to overturn the adoption petition and new trial dismissals. 
 
 February 2009: Jennifer and Sarah adopt Devonte and two of his siblings — bringing their number of children to six. An article from Paper Trail, a New Zealand-based news outlet, describes his adoption. The article said by age 4, the boy had been abused, neglected, shot at and had endured other traumas. The fourth child, Dontay Davis, is not adopted by the Harts. 
 
 July 2010: A Texas appeals court turns down Celestine's attempt to adopt Devonte Hart and three of his siblings, court records show. 
 
 November 2010: Police in Alexandria, Minnesota interview Abigail Hart, 6 at the time, after a teacher discovers bruises stretching from her sternum to her navel. The girl says Jennifer Hart hit her with a closed fist, put her head in a cold bath, then hit her again, court records show. She was then grounded, the girl told police, which meant she had to stay in bed and miss lunch. 
 
 April 2011: Sarah Hart pleads guilty to abusing Abigail Hart and is sentenced to a year of probation for misdemeanor domestic assault, court records show. Sarah told police she was the one who hit Abigail, even though the girl told authorities her mother Jennifer had done it. The next day, all six of the Hart children are taken out of public schools. They never attend public school again. 
 
 October 2011: The family lives in Alexandria, Minnesota, for a time and takes part in local activism. Hart family members including Devonte and Jennifer Hart participate in an Occupy Minneapolis demonstration. 
 
 2012: According to friends in Oregon, Sarah Hart travels to Portland to look for work. Jennifer Hart and their children later join her. 
 
 2013: After the family moves to West Linn, family friend Alexandra Argyropoulos tells Oregon child welfare officials that the Hart parents have been depriving their kids of food as punishment, she says. The Harts break off contact with her when they learn of it. Argyropoulos says she was told the Hart children had been interviewed by Oregon officials; it was apparent that each child had been coached by their mothers on what to say; and nothing more could be done by the Oregon Department of Human Services. 
 
 July 2013: The police department responds to a call to the Hart's house. 
 
 November 2014: Family members participate in a Portland protest of a Missouri grand jury declining to indict a Ferguson police officer in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Devonte and a Portland police officer hug, and the photo of the moment goes viral. 
 
 March 2016: Family members join U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont onstage during a presidential campaign rally in Vancouver. 
 
 May 2017: Jennifer and Sarah Hart buy a two-story, 3-bedroom home on 2 acres of land in the Woodland area of Clark County, Washington, property records show. 
 
 November 2017: Steve Frkovich, a relative of the Harts' neighbors, tells a dispatcher that he is concerned about the children. He says he feels the kids are "being highly abused" and recounts Hannah Hart jumping out a window and seeking help. The incident happened a few months prior to his call to authorities, and a neighbor — Frkovich's daughter — says there have been no other issues since that one. 
 
 March 23, 2018: The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services opens a Child Protective Services investigation in which the Hart children are "identified as potential victims of alleged abuse or neglect." 
 
 March 23, 2018: The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services attempts without success to make contact with the Hart family. 
 
 March 24, 2018: Sarah Hart sends a 3 a.m. text message to a friend, saying she's so sick she might have to go to the hospital. The friend, Cheryl Hart, never hears from Sarah again. 
 
 March 24, 2018: The family is in or around Newport, Oregon, around 8:14 a.m., police say. It's believed they continue south on Route 101 until they reach State Route 1 in Leggett, California. 
 
 March 24, 2018: The Harts travel south on State Route 1 until they reach the Fort Bragg area in Mendocino around 8 p.m.. The family stays there until about 9 p.m. March 25, 2018. 
 
 March 26, 2018: Cheryl Hart calls a Clark County emergency dispatcher at at 1:15 p.m., asking the Clark County Sheriff's Office to do a welfare check at the family's Woodland, Washington, home. 
 
 March 26, 2018: The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services again unsuccessfully attempts to make contact with the Hart family. 
 
 March 26, 2018: A passer-by along Highway 1 in Westport, California, calls 911 after looking down a 100-foot embankment and seeing an SUV upside down on the rocky shoreline. Five people are found dead: three children outside the SUV and two women inside. 
 
 March 27, 2018: The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services makes a third unsuccessful attempt to contact the Hart family. 
 
 March 28, 2018: The women are identified by the Mendocino County's Sheriff's Office as Jennifer and Sarah Hart and their children as Markis, Jeremiah and Abigail. Three of their other children: Devonte, Hannah and Sierra, remain missing. Sheriff Tom Allman said a search is ongoing for the remaining three children. 
 
 March 29, 2018: Police continue to search for the three missing children, including Devonte, and to investigate why the SUV plunged off the California cliff. Authorities don't know if the kids were also in the car, but are basing their search on the assumption that they were thrown from the car into the cliffs or the surf. 
 
 March 31, 2018: Officials reveal the speedometer on the Harts' wrecked SUV was "pinned" at 90 mph. 
 
 April 2, 2018: Officials say the crash may have been intentional, saying data taken from the family's SUV shows the vehicle came to a complete stop at the Route 1 pullout before speeding off the cliff. The search for the missing children becomes a "recovery effort." 
 
 April 2, 2018: "I'm to the point where I'm no longer calling this an accident, I'm calling it a crime," Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman tells HLN's Ashleigh Banfield. 
 
 April 7, 2018: An unidentified body, believed to be that of a black female, is found in the ocean near the site of the crash. Officials say an identification could take weeks. 
 
 April 13, 2018: California Highway Patrol officials tell reporters Jennifer Hart had a blood alcohol level of .102 when she drove the SUV off the cliff the previous month. Capt. Bruce Carpenter also told reporters toxicology reports indicated Sarah Hart had "a significant amount of the ingredient primarily in Benadryl in her system." Two of the three children also had "Benadryl-type of substances in their system." 
 
 April 17, 2018: Authorities announce that the body found in the Pacific Ocean surf near the crash site April 7 belongs to Sierra Hart, 12. Her legal name is "Ciera." 
 
 Two of her siblings, Devonte and Hannah Hart, remain missing. They are presumed dead. The FBI has posted missing person fliers for both children on its website. 
 
 — The Oregonian/OregonLive
– A timeline of the final days of the Washington family killed in an apparently intentional car crash in California is coming together. Jennifer Hart, 38, was caught on surveillance footage at a Safeway store in Fort Bragg, Calif., around 8am on March 25, the day before the family's SUV plunged off a cliff about 15 miles north of the area, Fox News reports. The bodies of Jennifer Hart (who was driving the SUV) as well as her wife, Sarah, and three of their six adopted children have since been found; authorities are still searching for the couple's three other children. Jennifer Hart was purchasing bananas and other groceries during the Safeway trip; it's not clear where the rest of the family was, NBC News reports. The children ranged in age from 12 to 19; their parents were under investigation for alleged abuse or neglect at the time of the crash. Investigators have also been interviewing neighbors, searching the family's Washington home, and looking into cellphone pings. So far, they know the family was south of Portland by 8:15am March 24, and then drove south along the coast until, by 8pm, they were in the Fort Bragg area. They were there a little more than 24 hours, then headed north up the coast. Their GMC Yukon went off the cliff, falling 70 feet to an embankment below, on March 26; a passerby reported it to police around 3:30pm. Authorities say it appeared to have accelerated over the edge and that no skid marks were found near where it went over. "As of this date it is still unclear if the missing children were inside the vehicle during the incident," the CHP said in a news release, but the missing children are tentatively presumed dead. The local sheriff tells KOIN there is "every indication" they were in the car when it crashed. (A former friend of the couple has come forward to speak out about the alleged abuse.)