Fake Death - Ryan Borgwardt

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A man disappears during a kayaking trip in Green Lake, Wisconsin, triggering a massive two-month search. But when investigators make a shocking discovery, the story takes an unbelievable turn. Join Jamie and John as they unravel the strange case of the Wisconsin kayaker who staged his own death.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.6	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.4	Oh, man, there's way too much violence happening right now.
0:19.8	Could you get me like a diet death, like a fake death?
0:24.7	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:32.0	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:34.3	I am John here with Jamie.
0:36.1	Did you say diet death? Diet death. It's like,
0:40.0	it's a new band name actually. I really like that. I've tried to start eating a little healthier
0:46.4	and that feels like death. Is that what you mean? It may be. No, it's a, it's a death where nobody
0:51.7	dies. It's not real and it actually was still traumatic and very harmful and very illegal, but somebody fake
1:00.9	their death.
1:01.4	And that's what I want to talk about today.
1:03.4	I get it.
1:03.8	All right.
1:04.2	So diet, death, or death light, if you will.
1:07.6	Death light.
1:08.9	Yeah, this all started on August 11th,
1:11.6	2024 in Green Lake, Wisconsin,
1:14.8	which is about 100 miles northwest of Milwaukee.
1:19.0	Ryan Borgwart, 45 years old,
1:21.6	told his wife that he was heading out kayaking.
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