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True Crime with Kendall Rae

The Man Who Faked His Death for a New Life With His Mistress

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In August 2024, 44-year-old Ryan Borgwardt went missing after leaving for a kayaking trip. But this wasn’t a typical missing person case. Borgwardt had faked his own death in order to flee to the country for a woman in Uzbekistan, leaving behind his wife and three children.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to True Crime with Kendall Ray.

0:10.1

I hope you guys are all having a great day.

0:12.1

Thank you for joining me today.

0:13.3

And if you're new to the show, then welcome.

0:15.1

I'm so happy to have you.

0:16.3

So guys, today we are getting into a case that I have been wanting to talk about for months.

0:21.6

I wanted to wait until there was enough information to do a full deep dive.

0:25.0

And this is actually a case that I had been covering just here and there little updates on my other podcast, The SESH, which is very different from this show.

0:35.1

It's a little bit unhinged, but in the best way.

0:38.2

It's really fun.

0:39.1

We talk about a variety of topics.

0:40.8

We play games.

0:41.7

It's a lot of laughing and more of the lighthearted side of things.

0:45.6

I host it with my cousin.

0:46.6

So if you're interested in checking it out and, you know,

0:48.4

getting to know me on a more personal level,

0:51.1

then I will have that linked below. But yeah, we talked about this case quite a bit, and it blew me away.

0:57.5

This guy we're going to be talking about Ryan Borgwart.

1:01.0

Damn, do I have a lot to say about him, and he really pisses me off.

1:05.5

Ryan is someone who tried to fake his own death, stage his own disappearance, and just abandon his wife and

1:14.3

children and leave them to think that he just died. I know this is different than the typical case

1:19.3

I cover on this show, but honestly, we've been covering a lot of heavy ones lately and I just needed

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