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Ridiculous Crime

Ryan Borgwardt: The Wannabe Ghost of Green Lake

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Once upon a time... a married man and father of three went online and there he met a mystery woman from Uzbekistan. The two began an internet friendship that blossomed into an online romance. Within months, he and she decided he should fake his death so he could leave his wife and kids behind in Wisconsin and run away to be with her. Obviously, that didn't go down as planned since he's on this show!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.7

On America's Crime Lab, the podcast, we're revealing the true story of the Idaho Four.

0:09.4

I was so frantic that morning and scared that the person who did this would come from me next.

0:14.6

They were struggling to identify a direction, a person of interest.

0:19.0

And I said, why wouldn't we work this case?

0:21.7

This three-part series features never before heard interviews about a crime that shook the nation

0:26.3

and the forensics lab that cracked the case wide open.

0:29.8

Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.9

Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Hey. Elizabeth. Wow, you're coming in hot, man. I'm so glad to see you. Hey, good to see you. Why you got that big smile on your face? I got a question for you. Do you know what's ridiculous? Is there? I do. Really? I asked my six-year-old nephew the other day, what's a Laboooo? Ah, this must have been

0:57.3

interesting. Because I hear it, I don't know. Yeah. And he, you know, made a disgusted face because he

1:02.9

doesn't like Laboooooooo. Oh, he's over it. Yeah. It's sort of like when I was his age and like

1:08.4

cabbage patch kids were the thing. And I was disgusted by them you know

1:14.3

because I was too cool for that yeah you're like cabbage patch I was so cool um so I asked him what's the

1:21.1

lububu and he was trying to explain it to me and then we looked up a picture and I said all right I get it

1:26.1

it's like, you know,

1:31.8

Mancichi, basically. Yeah, I was just about to say. That's all I say is Moncee Choo. And so, but I then Rose on Instagram, aka the Envious Moon, she sent us a thing where people believe that Laboubu

1:41.1

is modeled on Pazoooozoo. What's on Pazoozuzu.

1:46.1

What's a Pazoo?

1:47.3

Pazoozuzu is an ancient Mesopotamian mythological figure that is a demonic god.

1:59.1

Oh.

1:59.8

And so he's represented by like a dog face with huge bulging eyes, a scaly body, a snake-headed penis, the talons of a bird and wings.

2:11.4

And it's like an evil underworld demon.

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