Ryan Borgwardt, a married father of three, has been missing since August after leaving for a relaxing fishing trip on Green Lake, about an hour north of his home in Watertown, Wisconsin. Investigators now suspect the experienced kayaker faked his own death and fled to Europe via Canada.

Authorities now believe a Watertown man who was reported missing while kayaking is alive and likely staged his own death before fleeing the country.

Wisconsin resident, Ryan Borgwardt, went on a Green Lake solo kayaking trip in August. At 10:49 p.m. on August 11, Borgwardt sent a text message to his wife sta

When a 45-year-old man failed to return home from a kayak outing on a lake, authorities thought he had drowned. Eventually, a different story emerged.

Ryan Borgwardt, a married father of three, has been missing since August after leaving for a fishing trip about an hour from his home in Watertown, Wisconsin. Investigators now suspect the experienced kayaker faked his death and fled to Europe through Canada.

A husband and father of three who vanished at a Wisconsin lake this summer may have faked his own death and fled to Eastern Europe, authorities said.

When Ryan Borgwardt didn't return home from a fishing trip on Green Lake in Wisconsin in early August, local authorities believed he had drowned. But now they believe he is alive and well.

Borgwardt, 44, disappeared on Aug. 11 in Wisconsin. Cops said he faked his own death to meet a woman from Uzbekistan.