It would and may very well be part of the evidence against the W4's.
At this point we don't know. But we do know that DeWine said custody and control of the children was the motive and that this is the most bizarre case he has ever seen.
We have all been here for months racking our brains for a reason why he wouldn't just take Hannah to court and try for custody or at least joint custody. Even if they planned a move to Alaska, if Jake had joint custody he could have tried for six months in AK with him and six months in OH with Hannah. There is a reason why he didn't do that.
Hannah wasn't growing MJ, her dad was. Her dad wasn't the one asking for custody.
Jake wasn't stealing boots or waving guns at people, his dad was. His dad wasn't the one asking for custody.
So this custody thing had to be something between Jake and Hannah.
These days joint custody is almost automatic. So there has to be a very good reason Jake thought he would not even get joint custody, so resorted to murder. Don't forget, the entire W family thought murder was the only solution. Not just the murder of Hannah. The murder of her entire family. Every single person who might be able to come back and get custody of SW if Hannah was dead even right down to a 16 year old boy who was the child's uncle.
Someone on here pointed out people disappear in those mountains all the time. We have all seen evidence of that with all the dead bodies turning up.
So why not just make Hannah disappear? Why would getting rid of just Hannah not solve the custody problem? Why did Jake drag baby pics and other evidence to a custody hearing to prove he was SW's father? I have never heard of any bio father dragging baby pics to court to prove he was the child's father. Why would he think he had to prove he was SW's father? After all her last name was Wagner and we assume his name was on her birth certificate as her father. So why would he have to prove he was with baby pics ect?
Unless a DNA test was done after they split in 2015 and it came back that Jake was not SW's bio father. At that point Jake could not have even gotten legal visitation rights let alone custody. At that point the only solution would have been if Hannah and every single one of her close relatives was dead. Even Hazel if she had married Frankie would have had a better chance to get full custody of SW than Jake who was not even related to the child.
It's just a theory, but it fits.
JMO
He may have been proving with the pictures, or trying to, the significance he had played in the child's life to that point, since everyone on the other side of the child's family was now dead and couldn't speak to the matter. He also had to prove that he was fit to be a single parent so that CPS wouldn't step in, start monitoring, or even take the child for a time for further evaluation of his situation. He had a lot to prove in a short amount of time. And everything was riding on the outcome of that ruling.
I hear what you are saying. For some reason he wasn't okay with shared parenting. For some reason the whole Wagner family wasn't okay with it.
It's my opinion only, but I do think he's the father. I don't think any child support was ever asked for or paid, or that a DNA test was done and split them up in 2015. It's my opinion only, but I think that info would have worked its way through the grapevine by now.
We're trying to apply logic to people who aren't rational at all. You might be right, maybe he isn't the bio Dad. But in cases where an individual has been acting as the non-custodial parent and finds out that they are not the bio Mom or Dad, even they are often given a court-ordered role in the child's life if they are willing to continue providing the care and support. If Jake isn't the father, as long as there's no bio Dad fighting for his rights, Jake would have always had a relationship with S, even court mandated if need be.
Someone earlier in this thread mentioned that they knew of fathers being forced to continue child support even when it's proved that the man is not the bio Dad. This happened to my cousin. The courts didn't care that the marriage split up and that the adults were getting pretty nasty (hence the paternity test). The courts cared only that he'd been acting as the child's father for 5 years and was fine not questioning paternity until the split, and he was mandated to pay....but they have since worked out co-parenting. The courts care very much about continuity in a child's life, especially young children. I don't know their rationale for not being okay with having shared time with S. I can't even imagine. What I'm pretty sure of though is that even if Jake turned out not to be her bio Dad, no one else had stepped forward, and his right to see her would not have been taken away, unless he was found to be unfit.
Now poor little S spent her 5th birthday in the care of CPS. I wonder if it ever hits the Ws how terribly they went off the rails. I wonder if any of them alone at night in their cells weep for their actions?
Sadly, when we do get answers during the trials, I don't think it'll make anymore sense to us than it does today.
How odd! Sorta scary too. I guess she just wanted to know, but sort of an odd way to go about things. 
