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Affidavit: Mom told deputies balloon saga was hoax
AP via Google ^ | October 23rd 2009 | DAN ELLIOTT (AP) Oct 24th

Posted on 10/23/2009 4:53:28 PM PDT by Cardhu

DENVER — The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.

Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard "knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence" in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balloon; colorado; falconheene; fortcollins; hoax; larimercounty; mayumiheene; richardheene
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It is going to be tough for the father to continue his story.
1 posted on 10/23/2009 4:53:28 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu

The two of them have mental problems. I hope they get the help they need. I keep saying at least they didn’t put Falcon in there for their stunt. That would have been murderous neglect.


2 posted on 10/23/2009 4:54:45 PM PDT by deannadurbin
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It is going to be tough for the father to continue his story.

He'll still be appalled. He'll just be appalled that his wife ratted him out.

3 posted on 10/23/2009 4:55:51 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Cardhu

It would make them more marketable? hahah. tell their kids to lie! but then, they are descended from aliens, she said. maybe they have different core beliefs.


4 posted on 10/23/2009 4:56:34 PM PDT by bboop (Tar and feathers -- good back then, good now)
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To: deannadurbin

They are a matched set. I hope the kids get some help.


5 posted on 10/23/2009 4:57:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: South40

His lawyer is saying she does not speak much English and did she confess while under arrest? You have to clutch at straws when the perps start to confess.


6 posted on 10/23/2009 4:59:23 PM PDT by Cardhu (Be happy, today you will be the youngest you will ever be.)
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To: Cardhu

Who is writing the rescue bill?


7 posted on 10/23/2009 5:00:22 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: Cardhu

She had command of the language. What bunk!


8 posted on 10/23/2009 5:02:12 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Cardhu

the public figured it out before law enforcement.


9 posted on 10/23/2009 5:02:36 PM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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Obviously. Law enforcement is known for tracking things down when they don’t suspect anything.

Wake up, FRiend. The cops have to go on more than just common sense in building a prosecution. There would be no confession unless the cops were pursuing it...


10 posted on 10/23/2009 5:11:42 PM PDT by pgyanke (You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
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To: ken21

Law enforcement figured it out the same time the public did. The sheriff later admitted they had misled the media about that to make it easier to investigate the family. Seems Papa Heene was very helpful while he thought police still believed him. During the period while the Sheriff was still indicating he didn’t think it was a hoax, they lured Papa down to the station and then went into the house to execute a search warrant and try to persuade Mama to go to a safe house with the kids.


11 posted on 10/23/2009 5:12:42 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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Looks like trouble in Paradise...They each have their own Attorney. She’s cooperating and he is defiant.

She had been previously been encouraged to consider shelter... Next Reality Show: Divorce Court.


12 posted on 10/23/2009 5:36:17 PM PDT by theyreallthesame
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To: theyreallthesame

I hope the kids have a court-appointed lawyer of their own.


13 posted on 10/23/2009 5:40:43 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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“The cops have to go on more than just common sense in building a prosecution.:

Law enforcement sucks. And that’s because the people involved in it suck....


14 posted on 10/23/2009 5:41:14 PM PDT by babygene
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Law enforcement sucks. And that’s because the people involved in it suck....

As the wife of a LEO who takes his oath to enforce the Constitution seriously, I take exception to your statement. Of course there are bad cops. There are bad everything. But I think these guys understood the mentality of the nut they had had on their hands and led him down the primrose path to his own demise. At least I hope so for the sake of his wife and kids.

15 posted on 10/23/2009 6:17:57 PM PDT by lovesdogs (10/21/09 - 1075 days left until obama is toast/375 until midterms.)
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It is going to be tough for the father to continue his story.

Not if the DNC lines up behind him.

16 posted on 10/23/2009 6:21:08 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: Cardhu
Back a few months ago on FR there was a great post depicting a “Attention Whore” ... this is what we have in with this despicable couple in Fort Collins, CO ... two of them.
17 posted on 10/23/2009 6:21:43 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: South40

Lol

yeah dat.


18 posted on 10/23/2009 6:22:53 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: deannadurbin

...at least they didn’t put Falcon in there for their stunt.

&&&
If they had put that kid in there, there is no way that balloon could have gone up into the air.


19 posted on 10/23/2009 6:29:52 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: lovesdogs

Tell it, sister! Most cops are great guys. I get so sick of the small crowd here on FR that likes to jump on them. Makes me wonder what their problem is.


20 posted on 10/23/2009 6:32:52 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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