Everything the Internet knows about the Heene family

Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of Falcon, who is missing after having apparently floated away in a helium balloon-craft built by his parents, have left a long and wide internet trail. Here’s what we know.

The Heenes have lived a self-consciously adventurous life, and sought to engage their children in it. Richard is a stormchaser, an amateur scientist (with some strange theories about civilization on Mars), and an avid self-promoter. When the family appeared on ABC’s Wife Swap last year, the episode’s set-up was that a stuffy, safety-obsessed woman was saddled with Richard and his wild boys.

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