PRINCETON, Wis. (WFRV) — More details have emerged following the initial court appearance of Ryan Borgwardt, a Green Lake County man who faked his death, fled the country, and later returned.

Cormican closed his landscaping business, invested in cutting-edge sonar equipment, and bought a boat. In the years since, he ...

A Wisconsin man who officials say faked his own death and fled to Eastern Europe was charged with a misdemeanor count of obstructing an officer Wednesday after he turned himself in to authorities.

Police contacted Ryan Borgwardt on Nov. 11, months after he disappeared Ryan Borgwardt, the Wisconsin man who authorities allege faked his death in a staged kayak accident, is alive, authorities ...

Ryan Borgwardt was reported missing in Wisconsin on Aug. 12, but investigators now think he's in Europe following a 54-day-long search Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

A missing father who was initially presumed dead after his kayak was found overturned in a lake is now believed to have fled to Europe to begin a new life with a woman from Uzbekistan he met online.