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'I really don't think there's anything that was a lie': What the Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning and fled the country told investigators

'I really don't think there's anything that was a lie': What the Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning and fled the country told investigators
nation9/10/2025

Hundreds of newly released records are shedding light how Ryan Borgwardt made it from a Wisconsin lake all the way to the country of Georgia,

The sun was getting ready to rise over a rural lake in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, when a sheriff's deputy shined his flashlight inside Ryan Borgwardt's minivan parked just yards away from the water's edge. There was no one inside the car. As the d... [4097 chars]