Posted on 12/13/2024 6:37:29 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning so he could leave her and their children and meet a woman in Eastern Europe filed court documents Thursday seeking to end their marriage.
Online court records indicate Emily Borgwardt filed a petition in Dodge County Circuit Court seeking a legal separation from Ryan Borgwardt. According to the petition, the marriage is “irretrievably broken." The document doesn't elaborate.
A woman who answered the phone at the office of Emily Borgwardt’s attorney, Andrew Griggs, on Thursday said he would have no comment. Online court records don’t list an attorney for Ryan Borgwardt.
The separation petition states that the couple has been married for 22 years and Emily Borgwardt wants sole custody of their three teenaged children. The document adds that Emily works at a private school in Watertown. Ryan is listed as self-employed and currently residing at an “unknown address.”
A hearing in the case has been set for April.
Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was reported missing on Aug. 12 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 subsequent clues — including that he obtained a new passport three months before he disappeared — led investigators to speculate that he faked his death to meet up with a woman he had been communicating with in Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia.
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Fake your death to leave the wife and kids for a Russian Mail Order Bride. This guy is a genius! *SMIRK*
I thought he was in jail?
He’s probably living with his parents. The Russian woman most likely dumped him when he ran out of money and that is why he came back to the US.
From the pics I’ve seen those Russian girls range from pretty to extremely beautiful. Personally, I’d never leave my wife for some culturally and politically different hottie.
Regarding the jerk that faked his own death, I’d say a divorce would have been appropriate. Then he could do whatever he wanted with his Russian girl in the open.
Since there is a Rusky connection then logically this must somehow be Trumps fault.
He should have been.
Well here’s the thing if you fix his own death she gets all his assets she even gets the insurance he has she gets everything He gets nothing....
So she’s way better off if he is declared dead and he’s worse off because he’s got nothing... Because as you say when you’re dead you can’t take it with you even if you’re fake dead you can’t take it with you she gets everything
Probably press-ganged and sent to the Ukrainian Front.
“a Russian Mail Order Bride”
From what I hear, that’s a good way to wake up with your throat cut.
Was that wrong? Should he have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of marriages, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
“…charged with obstructing the search for his body.”
Hmmm, wrap your head around THAT!
Extremely poor judgement. Dragging his family through a bout of fake grieving, not giving a whoop how everybody was effected. Most mid life crisis can be settled by the purchase of a bright red sports car, or maybe growing a Van Dyke beard. Some mistakes, you can never take back or repair.
How does his wife look like?
And how much money does he have?
Russian women are not stupid.
Maybe the Russian sweetheart was a 300 lb guy named Bubba.
Did the creep dispose of any assets before the fake?
I’m hoping his wife is sitting pretty financially....if there’s anything left.
The POS left his wife and 2 kids. Total complete loser that doesn’t deserve any of them.
Better late than never.
Yes, since there was no body, how could he obstruct the search for it. We certainly have a lot of laws in this country. If they want to throw you in gulag, they can easily find some reason.
He was in jail at one point. There is video and pictures. Saw it on TV.
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