10-minute murder contains depictions of actual crimes. What you are about to hear is real and violent in nature. Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder, the brief and bingeable true crime podcast.

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I'm a little bit weird, and we talk about true cases of murder on this show.

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The story today is heartbreaking.

A couple that from the outside looked like they were amazing people, doing a part to help kids get out of the foster care system and into a permanent, loving home.

Something that so many of them dream about happening one day.

But in March of 2018, Jennifer and Sarah Hart took their own lives, along with their

six adopted children. This is the murder of the Hart family.

Thank you. Jennifer and Sarah Hart were both from South Dakota. In college, they both transferred to the same school, Northern State University, which is in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Both Jennifer and Sarah majored in elementary education.

While going to NSU, they officially became a couple.

They made it Facebook official and everything.

Jennifer said that once they outed themselves from being closeted lesbians, they faced immediate ostracism. People around them didn't accept their lifestyle and made it known. Ordinarily,

I'd give some kind of life advice, like forget what other people say and just live your

life in a way that makes you happy. I'd probably quote Mark Twain. What other people think of me

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