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Man accused of faking Green Lake drowning death finishes jail sentence

Dec 9, 2025 | 3:01 PM

A Wisconsin man who authorities said faked his own death and fled to Europe was released from jail last week, online records show. 45-year-old Ryan Borgwardt was out of custody as of Dec. 2, online records show. He had been sentenced in August to spend 89 days in a county jail after pleading no contest to obstructing an officer. Borgwardt was reported missing on Aug. 12, 2024 after he didn’t return home from a kayaking trip on Green Lake. He was presumed dead after his kayak washed ashore, however investigators later discovered he was alive in Eastern Europe.