Balloon Boy Hoax

Richard Heene (L), gets emotional as he holds his son, 6-year-old Falcon Heene, outside their house with son Bradford
Mayumi Heene with two of her three boys, Falcon (centre), 6, and Ryo, 8, leave their home in Fort Collins, Colorado on October 19. Mayumi , the mother of Falcon, the Colorado boy once feared missing aboard a runaway helium balloon has admitted to investigators that the saga that gripped much of the United States was a hoax