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Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was booked into the Green Lake County Jail
on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Victim Information and
Notification Everyday system, a service that provides
information to crime victims such as a person's jail custody
status. No charges were listed.
The Green Lake County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday in a social
media post that a news conference would be held Wednesday
morning to update the Borgwardt case. The post said no further
information would be provided until then.
A person answering the phone at the sheriff's office Tuesday
night declined to confirm whether Borgwardt was in custody.
County jail officials didn't immediately return a phone message
Tuesday night.
Last month, Sheriff Mark Podoll said Borgwardt began
communicating with authorities on Nov. 11 after disappearing for
three months but that he hadn’t committed to returning to
Wisconsin. Podoll said police were "pulling at his heartstrings”
to come home. He suggested Borgwardt could be charged with
obstructing the investigation into his disappearance.
Borgwardt told authorities last month that he faked his death
because of “personal matters,” the sheriff said. He told them
that in mid-August he traveled about 50 miles (80 kilometers)
from his home in Watertown to Green Lake, where he overturned
his kayak, dumped his phone and then paddled an inflatable boat
to shore. He said he picked that lake because it’s the deepest
in Wisconsin.
After leaving the lake, he rode an electric bike about 70 miles
(110 kilometers) through the night to Madison, the sheriff said.
From there, he said he took a bus to Detroit, then boarded a bus
to Canada and got on a plane.
The sheriff said at the time that investigators were working to
verify Borgwardt’s description of what happened.
The sheriff’s office has said the search for Borgwardt’s body,
which lasted more than a month, cost at least $35,000. The
sheriff said that Borgwardt told authorities that he didn’t
expect the search to last more than two weeks.
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