(CNN)-- As authorities confirmed the "balloon boy" saga was a hoax, they checked the vessel created by Richard Heene to see whether it could have actually carried his 6-year-old son Falcon.

An Ohio man is accused of forcing a 12-year-old boy to take long ice baths before the boy died. Anthony J. McCants is charged with endangering children, according to court records. Attorney ...

Richard and Mayumi Heene, whose son Falcon was thought for several hours to have flown away in a homemade balloon ... scrambled to rescue the 6-year-old boy, who later turned out to be hiding ...