Shocking Twist: Missing Kayaker Found in Custody — What Jail Records Reveal About the Green Lake County Mystery

According to online records, a Wisconsin man is in police arrest after feigning his own drowning and leaving his wife and three kids to travel to Eastern Europe. According to the Victim Information and Notification Everyday system, which gives crime victims information including a person’s jail detention status, Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was booked into the Green Lake County Jail on Tuesday afternoon.

There were no costs mentioned. In a social media post on Tuesday, the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced that a press conference to provide an update on the Borgwardt case would take place on Wednesday morning.

No other details will be given until then, according to the article.

On Tuesday evening, a caller at the sheriff’s office refused to confirm if Borgwardt was being held. A phone message left Tuesday night was not immediately answered by county jail officials.

Sheriff Mark Podoll stated last month that although Borgwardt had not committed to going back to Wisconsin, he had started speaking with officials on November 11 following a three-month disappearance.

What the Cops did?

Police were “pulling at his heartstrings” to return home, according to Podoll. He proposed that Borgwardt be accused of interfering with the inquiry into his disappearance.

Last month, Borgwardt claimed to have staged his death due to “personal matters,” according to the sheriff. He informed them that he went to Green Lake from his residence in Watertown, which is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) away, in the middle of August. The place where he paddled an inflatable boat to shore after overturning his kayak and dropping his phone.

He claimed that the reason he chose that lake is that it is the deepest in Wisconsin. According to the sheriff, he left the lake and traveled to Madison on an electric bike for almost 70 miles (110 kilometers) during the night.

He then claimed to have taken a bus to Detroit, a bus to Canada, and an aircraft. At the time, the sheriff stated that detectives were trying to confirm Borgwardt’s account of what transpired.

According to the sheriff’s office, the more than month-long hunt for Borgwardt’s body cost at least $35,000. Borgwardt informed officials that he didn’t anticipate the search lasting longer than two weeks, according to the sheriff.