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Run away Wisconsin dad was speaking to a woman before faking his drowning, abandoning family of 22 years ‘for personal reasons’ – cops reveal Ryan Borgwardt executed elaborate escape plot before staging ‘kayak capsize’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailymail&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article-14182459&sol;reason-Wisconsin-father-Ryan-Borgwardt-faked-kayak-death-mugshot&period;html&num;comments"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d6f017407cf64a169a78126dc50c9f8b" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;342525&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Runaway emerging months after faking his owning death&comma; leaving his family behind&comma; told authorities last month that he faked his death because of &&num;8216&semi;personal matters&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8f7d7247b9127f664a610a37b5068576" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;342525&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Ryan Borgwardt&comma; 45&comma; flew back home on Tuesday&comma; four months after he vanished while out on Green Lake in Wisconsin <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-47fdb92ee6437879131f165cf317ab8b" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;342525&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He was reported missing August 12&comma; and despite an initial rescue mission lasting several weeks&comma; his body was never recovered <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-af191de03e6301e13d5512a48882765e" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;342525&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Police investigations revealed the father-of-three was seen crossing the Canadian border days after he vanished <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d6dfd36d32f47ff77bb86aa90a2a2506" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;342525&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Cops who said he had been had been communicating with a Uzbek woman who spoke Russian&comma; believe he&&num;8217&semi;d been somewhere in eastern Europe <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-52aeeed6640405f676d980dbf4d864c7" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;342525&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He was booked into the Green Lake County jail on Tuesday on &&num;8216&semi;a number of charges&&num;8217&semi;&comma; including &&num;8216&semi;obstruction&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; police said<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;12&sol;Ryan-Borgwardt-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-472593" style&equals;"width&colon;837px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Wisconsin father Ryan Borgwardt&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; back in US four months after he faked his own death in a kayak accident and fleeing to Eastern Europe&comma; decided to return to the US &&num;8216&semi;for his family&&num;8217&semi; police said&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A married Wisconsin man who tried to fake his own death in a kayak accident before fleeing overseas decided to return to the US&comma; &&num;8216&semi;for his family&&num;8217&semi; police said&period;<br>Ryan Borgwardt who faked his own death before fleeing to Eastern Europe with his lover is now in US custody&period; He was booked into the Green Lake County Jail on Tuesday afternoon&comma; on charges yet to be made public&period;<br>45-year-old Borgwardt flew back home on Tuesday&comma; four months after he vanished while out on Green Lake&period; <br>He was reported missing August 12&comma; after his capsized kayak was found in the lake and his vehicle and trailer were found at a nearby park&period;<br>His body was never recovered despite an initial rescue mission lasting several weeks&comma; was never recovered and eventually prompting police soon began to suspect other factors were at play other than the suspected death of the missing father-of-three&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;12&sol;Ryan-Borgwardt-1-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-472594" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Runaway father-of-three Borgwardt &lbrack;mugshot&rsqb;&comma; was booked into the Green Lake County jail on Tuesday&comma; although no charges have been specified&period; Police only revealed that he&&num;8217&semi;s been held on &&num;8216&semi;a number of charges&&num;8217&semi;&comma; including &&num;8216&semi;obstruction&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Law enforcement learned&nbsp&semi;in October that Borgwardt had crossed the border into Canada a few days after his disappearance and had been communicating with a Uzbek woman who spoke Russian&period;<br>After establishing contact with him on a &&num;8216&semi;near daily basis&&num;8217&semi;&comma; they were eventually able to persuade him to come home&period;<br>He was booked into the Green Lake County jail on Tuesday&comma; although no charges have been specified yet&period; <br>Police have not released details of where he was staying or who he was with&period;<br>At a press conference this morning&comma; Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll would only state that Borgwardt faces&comma; &&num;8216&semi;a number of charges&&num;8217&semi;&comma; including &&num;8216&semi;obstruction&&num;8217&semi;&period;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailymail&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article-14180871&sol;Wisconsin-husband-Ryan-Borgwardt-faked-kayak-death-fleeing-overseas-lover-arrested&period;html&quest;ico&equals;related-replace"><&sol;a><br>However he stressed that Borgwardt came willingly by himself&comma; flying into an international airport before turning himself into the local police station&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>He refused to confirm whether Borgwardt has been in contact with his wife of 22 years since his return&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&nbsp&semi;&&num;8216&semi;I could not be more proud of them and what they did for a family&comma; we didn&&num;8217&semi;t give up and we can stand here today feeling relieved&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Podoll said of his officers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;12&sol;Ryan-and-Emily-Borgwardt-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-472587" style&equals;"width&colon;836px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Authorities had known since October that Borgwardt &lbrack;right&rsqb; had been communicating with a Uzbek woman who spoke Russian&comma; before disappearing four months leaving behind his wife of 22 years&period; Emily &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; and their three children&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Authorities spent 54 days looking for the Wisconsin man before announcing on November 8 that they didn&&num;8217&semi;t believe he had drowned in the lake&comma; but rather had faked his own death&period; <br>Borgwardt told authorities last month that he faked his death because of &&num;8216&semi;personal matters&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the Podoll said&period; He also told them that he picked Green Lake for his master plan because it&&num;8217&semi;s the deepest in Wisconsin&period;<br>The scheme was elaborately planned&period; Police revealed that Borgwardt deliberately flipped his kayak and dumped his phone and belongings in the water before paddling to safety on an inflatable boat and e-biking more than 50miles to Madison overnight&period;<br>Borgwardt had been talking to a woman in Uzbekistan before he obtained a new passport and a &dollar;375&comma;000 life insurance policy in January&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;12&sol;Ryan-and-Emily-Borgwardt-with-their-children-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-472589" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Ryan Borgwardt and Emily who have been married 22 years&comma; share three children He has since returned to the US of his own volition and is being held in Green Lake County Jail&period; However&comma; he has not tried to contact his family police said<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Borgwardt left his original passport at home when he pulled his Houdini act &&num;8211&semi; He had reported his passport stolen and obtained a replacement last spring&period;<br>According to police&comma; the errant father and husband also tried covering his tracks by swapping out his laptop&&num;8217&semi;s hard drive and wiping his search history clean on the day of his disappearance&period; <br>Preparatory to his flight he also changed all the email addresses linked to his bank accounts and moved money to a foreign bank account&period;<br>Investigators managed to establish contact with the missing man in November&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Borgwardt&comma; who had not contacted his family since his disappearance&comma; sent a including a proof-of-life video in an apartment at an undisclosed location&comma; telling officers&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I am safe&comma; secure&comma; no problems&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;12&sol;Mark-Podoll-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-472602" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Law enforcement believe <strong>Borgwardt <&sol;strong> fled to Eastern Europe&period; Sheriff Mark Podoll however&comma; refused to say where he&&num;8217&semi;d been<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In contrast to the frantic family he left behind&comma; being supported by the Sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s Office&colon; &&num;8216&semi;They are doing okay&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s probably the best thing you could say&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Sheriff Vande Kolk explained last month&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I can&&num;8217&semi;t compare their situation to anything I have ever experienced in law enforcement before&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t have any reference&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Borgwardt told authorities last month that he faked his death because of &&num;8216&semi;personal matters&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the Podoll said&period; <br>It is expected that the county will seek restitution for the taxpayer-funded search efforts&period; Sheriff Podoll previously said his office spent &dollar;35&comma;000 and &dollar;40&comma;000 on the search&period; That figure does not include the thousands of dollars spent by the nonprofit Bruce’s Legacy&comma; which helped in the underwater search for the body&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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