Most people can't face the truth. That is why we have religions. They camouflage the truth under layers and layers of bullshit fantasies and myths, and promise us that the real Eldorado is after we die because we are immortal and eternal life awaits us all.
Bryan Borgwardt is from Wisconsin. He didn't have the courage to tell his wife and three children that he is in love with a woman from the country of Georgia. Having watched too many Hollywood movies, he decided to make a reality movie out of his own life.
Ryan Borgwardt appears in a Green Lake County, Wisconsin, courtroom in December. - Morry Gash/AP/File
His "plot", as it were, was to fake his own drowning during a kayaking trip because he wanted to leave his wife and three children in order to be with a woman in the country of Georgia.
Borgwardt was reported missing August 12, 2024, after telling his wife the night before that he was kayaking on Green Lake, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee. His disappearance was first investigated as a possible drowning. But after investigators failed to find his body following a 58-day search, the search broadened. Subsequent clues, including that he obtained a new passport three months before he disappeared, led investigators to speculate Borgwardt had faked his death to meet up with a woman overseas he had been communicating with.
Investigators made contact with Borgwardt in November and persuaded him to return to the US in December. He turned himself in and was charged with obstructing the search for his body. His wife of 22 years divorced him four months later.
According to the criminal complaint, Borgwardt traveled 50 miles (80 kilometers) from his family’s home in Watertown to Green Lake on August 11, 2024. During the night, he overturned his kayak on the lake, paddled back to shore in an inflatable raft that he brought with him – dumping his identification in the lake along the way – and rode an electric bicycle 70 miles (112 kilometers) to Madison. From there, he caught a bus to Toronto, flew to Paris and then to “a country in Asia,” before he landed in the European country of Georgia. He told investigators a woman picked him up and they spent several days in a hotel before he took up residency in Georgia.
He took out a life insurance policy, applied for a replacement passport and reversed his vasectomy before faking his death to meet the woman.
Hollywood should make a movie out of this dumb plan. It's so American.
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