I wonder how the searchers could have missed the boy hiding in the attic. Could this be a planned publicity stunt?
The entire family needs to be forced to undergo lie detector tests to prove the parents were the originators of this hoax, and then those adults responsible need to be jailed, or other A$$holes will be using their children in copycat hoaxes to get their own press conferences. This will do a great disservice to children who are actually abducted or in real danger, because people will tire of caring for what may be a hoax when they hear of copycat disappearances and stunts.