A small homemade helium balloon resembling a flying saucer and believed to be
containing a 6-year-old boy is pictured floating thousands of feet above Colorado, October 15, 2009.
REUTERS/KUSA TV/Handout
Posted on 10/23/2009 4:52:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
DENVER (Reuters) – The mother of a Colorado boy thought to be aboard a homemade helium balloon has admitted to investigators the whole thing was a hoax, according to a court document made public on Friday.
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"The motive for the fabricated story was to make the Heene family more marketable for future media interest," the affidavit states.
The document also says the Heenes, who had starred in the reality television show "Wife Swap," had devised the hoax about two weeks before and had instructed their three children to lie to authorities and the media.
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A new family reality show, Family Cellblock
Who would’ve thunk ...
The 6 year old will probably get beaten for “telling the truth”...What a screwed up family this is...
This is probably the only way they could get a conviction, if the wife turned on the husband.
A small homemade helium balloon resembling a flying saucer and believed to be
containing a 6-year-old boy is pictured floating thousands of feet above Colorado, October 15, 2009.
REUTERS/KUSA TV/Handout
my guess is, it was the husband who was the mastermind. The wife just didn’t seem smart enough to have pulled this off herself
I worry for the wife also. She has claimed domestic violence in the past.
the public figured it out before law enforcement.
Actually LE knew but weren’t saying anything about it to the media, to keep the Heenes cooperating with them. The whole ‘obviously we were fooled’ thing was them just playing their hand close while getting more information to bring charges. They’ve already said that.
This is a funny video that parody’s the baloon family with obamacare watch to end lol
http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2009/10/breaking-obamas-health-care-hoax.html
She will cooperate with the authorities to try and save herself and get rid of the guy.
Well, I heard
The ballon boy was NOT a hoax
Michael Jackson ordered takeout from heaven
badaboom!!!!
Not now, but I’m sure that’s what he was scared of. Remember, he threw up TWICE during two different media interviews, both times right after being asked why he didn’t come of hiding when he heard searchers calling his name. This poor kid was terrified of what would happen if didn’t tell the right lies like daddy ordered him to. I didn’t watch the interviews myself, but one FReeper who did noted that on one of them, when the boy threw up and was running off-camera, neither parent made a move to follow him until one of the interviewers suggested maybe one of them ought to go with him.
And to try to save her kids.
I'm sure it has dawned on her by now that if she goes to jail/prison, she loses her children.
Worked out pretty good for them.
If ONLY we could get the family in the White House to acknowledge the same.
She or the idiot hubby will never serve jail time. Hopefully a fine but I bet they skate free away.
Sad but true.
This is completely mind-boggling. Looks like Papa Heene will have to do his reality show from prison.
And I don't doubt for a second that he's presently trying to set up "negotiations" to do exactly that.
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