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Well, evidently that’s not even the “brother” who is going to be on, so that’s my bad.

I had seen some discussion earlier of even more children who were raised in Virgie’s home when Anna Nicole lived there, other than the ones named in the Seidlin hearing and elsewhere in family trees.

All the other boards claimed Donald Ray Hart Jr. had the prison record - they claimed to have seen it or gotten paid searches done. I had to just blindly accept that, because I couldn’t prove differently.

I had been trying to find the daughter (step-daughter to Virgie) Shauna for some time and wanted to know her married name. I had clues, but no proof. She seemed to live in the Dallas area, which was not the norm for the other family members.

So, I thought she must have lived with Hart’s ex-wife, but I didn’t know which one it was. I was fairly certain her last name was Hart at birth, but couldn’t prove that. Then I ran across another place that stated Hart’s ex-wife who was Shauna’s mother was married to someone named Jenkins first - it was possible Shauna’s last name was Jenkins and that Hart was her step-father.

However, I could never find an ex-wife of Hart’s who fit that criteria - at least, in Texas. So, I had to give up at that point. Then, today I saw that this convict who will be interviewed is also from that same ex-wife and goes by both the last name Jenkins and the last name Hart.

Apparently, the ex-wife had Shauna and a son, named Larry Dale Jenkins, born in 1960, who is allegedly this man in the prison interview. When their mother married Donald Hart in 1962, he adopted them both, according to what I read. (But the Shauna I had found wasn’t born yet at that time.)

Then when she and Donald Hart divorced in Dec 1970, the two children lived with her until she was incarcerated at some point. Meanwhile, Hart had married Virgie in Feb 1971 and whenever the ex-wife went to jail or prison, Shauna and Larry went to live with Virgie and Donald - but I don’t know when that was.

I had been under the impression that Shauna was Donald Hart’s birth daughter - and that she was born just a few months after her parents’ divorce (like a make-up baby but the reconciliation didn’t work) and not long after Virgie’s marriage to Hart. In fact, when I found that birth record, I felt like that explained why Virgie called Shauna “my daughter” - perhaps she and Donald had gotten Shauna when she was just a baby, depending on when the mom became incarcerated.

But, if Shauna’s name was Jenkins, then that’s not the right person - I had looked up Shauna Hart. And that child would have been 11 years younger than the son Larry.

Some of this I was never able to prove up, but perhaps the person who wrote it all got it firsthand. There may not be TX records for some of these marriages, divorces, births and so forth. Some were older than the online records and some are just too difficult to sort by hand.

I suppose we’ll find out tomorrow! Mainly, if all that’s true, it would mean this ANS “brother” is the stepson of one of her stepfathers’. No relation to her or even to Virgie, but someone who lived under the same roof. This family was even more blended than I thought.

So, my apologies to Donald Ray Hart, Jr., if that’s not who this is. I’m very sorry to have ID’ed him by the only “brother” name we’d seen who had lived in ANS’s same home. I had wondered if he wasn’t the one who was partially paralyzed and lived next door to Virgie - so this story hadn’t made sense to me when posters first said he was the criminal.