GREEN LAKE, Wis. — A man believed to have faked his own death in Green Lake County is alive.
Sheriff Mark Podoll says contact was made with Ryan Borgwardt on Nov. 11…
Podoll adds that his office has been communicating with Borgwardt nearly every day since Nov. 11 in hopes of convincing him to return home…
Borgwardt is believed to be living in an apartment somewhere in eastern Europe. He is accused of staging a drowning while kayaking on Green Lake in August, then leaving the country to be with a woman from Uzbekistan.