There were multiple times when the search parties came here and scoured the bluffs with fancy helicopters and airplanes and boats and everything else.

But in the end, what really was was the ocean stirring things up and calming down again and then diligent people looking.

No one that I know of witnessed the accident, that's the word.

Every time I go by there, I think of those poor kids.

It's the part about those kids losing their life that I think of the most.

Because even though all of it and all the searching rescue and all the people who came here, what I remember is because I'm a father, the most important thing is that those kids don't go home and they don't have a life.

So I don't know what happened, but I know that that's the end result of all of it.

That's Valentine Hail, also known as Val.

He's the owner of Val's Tolling and the Westport Community Store, which is the social hub of the town where the hearts died.

He had a bird's eye view of what happened in the aftermath of the crash.

It turns out Justin and I weren't the only ones who couldn't stop thinking about this case.

People from as far away as Italy and Australia wondered what had happened to the hearts and were worried about Hannah and Devonte,

whose whereabouts were still unknown.

But in January 2019, almost 10 months after the crash, officials announced that a foot discovered near the crash site belonged to Hannah.

Devonte's body has not been found.

From Glamour and How Stuff Works, this is Broken Hearts.

I'm Liz Egan.

And I'm Justine Harmon.

Our focus was on finding the kids because the mainstream media did not seem interested and there wasn't a lot of articles about it.

And I thought, how can they just be a race?

That's Amy Atlas, who started a Facebook group called Finding the Missing Heart Children and Honoring the Heart Children back in April.

The heart story peaked her interest, mostly because she felt there wasn't enough urgency to the search for the missing kids.

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