FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A mother's confession that she and her husband faked their 6-year-old son's disappearance in a runaway balloon shouldn't have been made public, an attorney for the father said.
Denver attorney David Lane blasted Larimer County officials for releasing documents Friday in the investigation into whether Mayumi and Richard Heene staged a hoax, saying the papers should have remained sealed until arrests were made.
"It's further proof of what that sheriff will do to further his own agenda and try to make it unfair to the Heenes," Lane...
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