NORTH COAST, Calif. – There has been another development in the effort to locate missing members of a family killed in a vehicle crash in late March, with officials reporting that they located clothing and skeletal remains near the crash site on Wednesday.

The crash, discovered on March 26, occurred off of Highway 1 just south of Juan Creek.

Spouses Jennifer Jean Hart and Sarah Margaret Hart, both age 38, and three of their children, Markis Hart, 19, Jeremiah Hart, 14, and Abigail Hart, 14, all of Woodland, Wash., were found in or near their GMC SUV at the base of a 100-foot cliff in the ocean, as Lake County News has reported.

About a week and a half later, the body of another of the Harts’ children, 12-year-old Ciera, was found in the surf not far from the crash scene.

Authorities have continued to search for the family’s two missing children, Hannah, 16, and her brother Devonte, 15.

On Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. a Mendocino County Sheriff's deputy was dispatched to the area of North Highway 1 and Hardy Creek in Westport, according to Capt. Greg Van Patten.

Van Patten said that the deputy arrived at the scene and learned a local resident had found a pair of jean pants with a shoe entangled inside one of the pant legs on the ocean beach near the mouth of Hardy Creek, which is approximately 1 mile north of the Hart Family crash site.

The jeans were a girl's size 10 regular and the shoe appeared to be a 3.5 US big kid size and/or 5.5 women's US size, he said.

Upon inspection, it was determined skeletal remains of what appeared to be a human foot was inside of the shoe. Van Patten said the shoe with the skeletal remains were released to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office Coroner's Division.

The California Department of Justice Bureau of Forensic Services Richmond DNA laboratory is being asked to identity the remains through DNA analysis, Van Patten said.

On Thursday, Van Patten said a group of Mendocino County Sheriff's Office Search & Rescue members were deployed to the area where the skeletal remains were located to conduct a search during tow tide conditions. An assessment of the ocean and terrain also was conducted for the planning of a future search operation.

The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office Coroner's Division to date has received analysis reports on all of the Hart family members who have been recovered and identified, Van Patten said.

Authorities previously reported that Jennifer Hart, who was driving the SUV, had a blood alcohol level of 0.102; the legal limit is 0.08.

Van Patten said the toxicology analysis showed three of the children had a positive toxicology finding in their blood for diphenhydramine, an active ingredient in Benadryl, while one child had no toxicology finding.

At this time, Van Patten said the coroner's division is not releasing the names of the children associated with these toxicology findings.

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