Ryan Borgwardt, a Wisconsin kayaker accused of faking his own drowning and fleeing the country, is alive somewhere in Eastern Europe and has been talking to investigators, officials said. But it’s still unclear whether he will ever return home to his wife and three children.
“Great news: we know that he’s alive and well,” Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Matthew L. Vande Kolk said Thursday. “The bad news is, we do not know where, exactly, Ryan is and he has not yet decided to return home.” The 44-year-old was reported missing on August 12 after failing to return home from a fishing trip on Green Lake, about an hour north of his home in Watertown, Wisconsin.
” The massive search for Borgwardt was a costly and emotionally taxing endeavor for both his family and search crews, the chief deputy said, and authorities are intent on holding him accountable for the toll his actions have caused. The sheriff’s office is preparing to charge Borgwardt with obstruction of justice, though the charges have yet to be filed, Vande Kolk said.
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