They found him and brought him back. He got 89 days in jail and has to pay $30,000.
A Wisconsin man
accused of plotting an elaborate scheme to fake his death in a kayaking accident and flee the country pleaded no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction.
Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was sentenced to 89 days in jail — the amount of time that he spent misleading authorities, Green Lake County Circuit Court Judge Mark Slate said before he announced the jail term.
Borgwardt, who appeared in a white checkered button-up shirt and gray pants, was also ordered to pay $30,000 in costs associated with a search effort that lasted nearly two months.
Green Lake County District Attorney Gerise LaSpisa told the court that Borgwardt spent months researching the scheme in an effort to disappear from his life in Wisconsin and create a new one in the country of Georgia, formerly part of the Soviet Union.
He reversed a vasectomy, took out a large life insurance policy, obtained a new passport and transferred money overseas, LaSpisa said. He researched how to fake a drowning and chose Green Lake,
with its average depth of 100 feet, because he believed "a body would not surface," she said.
Borgwardt then traveled to Georgia to be with a woman whom he'd met online, LaSpisa said.
Wisconsin kayaker who faked death to start new life in Europe is sentenced to 89 days
His kids are going to hate him forever.
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