The case of a missing Watertown kayaker is going global less than a week after investigators revealed their suspicion that he may have faked his own death and fled to Europe. 44-year-old Ryan Borgwardt took that fishing trip Aug.

They also found his overturned kayak with a life jacket attached to it on the lake, in an area where the waters run more than 200 feet (60 meters) deep. An angler later discovered Borgwardt’s fishing rod. Investigators had speculated that Borgwardt’s ...

Authorities in Wisconsin believe that Ryan Borgwardt, a 44-year-old married father of three, staged his disappearance and fled to Europe.

A Wisconsin kayaker is believed to have faked his death earlier this year in a bid to leave his family and flee to Europe, according to investigators on Friday. Ryan Borgwardt, a resident of Watertown,

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.

A Wisconsin father-of-three who vanished during a kayaking trip faked his disappearance and fled to Europe, local authorities announced. Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was reported missing by his family on August 12 when he didn’t return home from his trip to Green Lake.