I doubt he is a stepfather. That would imply that their was some other father, and that Heslin adopted the child (although sometimes people use the term “stepfather” more colloquially, if the guy moves in with the mother, even if they don’t marry and he doesn’t adopt). And since the public record seems to show she hasn’t been married in the past decade, if Heslin wasn’t the father, then there is some OTHER guy she wasn’t married to who IS the father, but who isn’t involved — and it would be weird that the biological father wasn’t involved, but some unrelated man called himself the “father”.
We can be pretty sure Burke wasn’t the father, since that divorce is way longer ago than the conception of Jesse.
I think it much more likely that he is the biological father. I don’t see why this is considered odd. Guys, even 37-year-old guys, like sex. He only had to have unprotected sex once with her. So it is quite likely she is the biological mother, he is the biological father, they never got married, maybe never even formally lived together, and are not now actively seeing each other.
It does seem clear that he was involved in the child’s life. I don’t know if the records that would indicate child support are public, so I don’t know if he was or was not paying child support. I’m not sure I WANT it to be easy for random people like us to get on the internet and learn the details of legal arrangements between a mother, a father, and a child.
I don’t know about Uncle Chip, but I am mostly speculating on these threads. I mean, I find actual links to things, but I don’t know these people, and I don’t have access to private records, so I’m not giving you facts, I’m telling you the WAYS in which what we observe could be true and make sense.
So I don’t know the relationship. But I see nothing in the public record that is contradictory, or strange, about this particular group of 3 people, or their lives on a farm with horses.
I know people are mad at Mr. Heslin for being against the 2nd amendment, but I think one can be a real father and still be stupid about the 2nd amendment.
Obviously Mr. Heslin’s testimony was manipulated by the media in a manner that put him him in spot light even more than normal.
Taking anything at face value from the media is difficult now-a-days with media news stars like Dan Rather, Pier Morgan and the chief of NBC news and other media people being involved with their own ‘hoaxes’. That includes manipulating Mr. Heslin’s testimony.
This may still be a rabbit hole but a very shallow one compared to other oddities surrounding the event.