Looks like as of July 2012 Neil Heslin was having financial troubles - committing financial crimes. See https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Neil-Heslin-Father-of-Sandy-Hook-Victim-Faces-16894829.php
Seems like he’s doing a lot better financially ever since the alleged shooting...
I’ve been trying to see what evidence was actually presented in Alex Jones’s trial and what discovery was allowed. I can’t find much except boilerplate reports. But at https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-connecticut-lawsuits-shootings-school-c4cd4f3f1aa69a73659b639a6f8df521 it seems that the evidence they ordered Jones to produce was about his finances and computer analytics, not about the truth of anything he said or allowed to be said on his show. And it sounds like the only “evidence” the families presented was about Jones’s finances and about them receiving harassment. And actually, I don’t know if they showed texts or had any other physical evidence for their claims.
Sounds like the judges basically said that since Jones didn’t present the financial and computer analytics data, he must be guilty of defamation, without anybody going into any evidence regarding what really happened that day, or any of the reasons that Jones suspected the attack might never have happened.