Borgwardt left his life jacket, fishing pole and tackle box in the kayak to “make this believable” so that “everyone, including law enforcement, would think he drowned,” according to a criminal complaint filed by District Attorney Gerise LaSpisa.
“Ryan stated ‘everything hinged on me dying in that lake,'” according to the complaint. “Ryan also stated, (the) ‘whole idea was to sell the death.'”
An air and water search didn’t turn up any remains or physical clues about what had become of .
Investigators later found he used a small inflatable boat to return to shore, where he had stashed an electric bike, officials said. rode it to Madison and boarded a bus that took him to Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit and into Canada before he eventually boarded a plane, the complaint said.
His plan was nearly foiled by Canadian border patrol agents who were suspicious of his not having a driver’s license, which had been ditched in his wallet in the lake.
He talked his way out of that stop and made it to Toronto, where he bought an Air France flight for Paris and flew from there to another country in “Eastern Europe/Western Asia,” according to the complaint.
But when , a married father of three, used his own passport in Canada, that helped authorities trace his long journey overseas.
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Once he was at that post-Paris destination, emailed “an adult female” who picked him up, and “they stayed at the hotel for a couple of days,” prosecutors said.
While the court document didn’t explicitly say where , who had $5,500 cash on him, ended up, prosecutors strongly suggested he was in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
He told investigators he went online to check news stories about his disappearance, using a virtual private network to “make it look like he was in Russia or somewhere else other than Georgia,” the complaint said.
“stated that he knew that Georgia” could extradite him to the U.S. “and he wanted to be informed and prepared,” according to the complaint.
The probe also found that had opened a foreign bank account and was in communication with a woman from Uzbekistan, officials have said.
After international calls for help to find went out, a Russian-speaking woman reached out to Green Lake County sheriff’s deputies and helped them contact him, authorities said.
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