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91. The Balloon Boy (Richard Heene)

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Richard Heaney Science Detective

Richard Heaney was one of three co-hosts on a web show called the Science Detectives. His partners Barb Slusser and Scott Stevens would eventually abandon the show because of Richard Heaney's insistence on bringing its children along to their dangerous storm chasing expeditions. In 2006 he recruited a fellow struggling actor named Perry Caravillo to work on his new show. The two men got into a physical altercation while chasing a tornado in Wyoming and never spoke again.

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