Ryan Borgwardt, the Wisconsin man who authorities allege faked his death in a staged kayak accident, is alive, authorities confirmed.
The Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said at a press conference on Thursday, Nov. 21, that his office made contact with Borgwardt through a Russian-speaking woman on Nov. 11. Authorities do not know where the missing father of three is, but said that he is safe and somewhere overseas.
Borgwardt sent a video to deputies from his apartment, in which he says it is “November 11” and that he was in his apartment and was “safe, secure, no problem.”
Podoll says they have not yet been able to pinpoint Borgwardt’s location but that he is believed to be in Eastern Europe. The sheriff said that the man’s family wants him to return home, noting that “Christmas is coming.”
Authorities previously said that Borgwardt had been reported missing in August, when his family last heard from …