A viral TikTok video is not believed to depict missing man Ryan Borgwardt, Green Lake County sheriff's officials say.

After father of three Ryan Borgwardt disappeared while kayaking, officials believe he may have faked his own death due to a recent life insurance policy and communications with an Uzbekistani woman.

The authorities spent weeks searching a Wisconsin lake for the man’s body before discovering that he had moved money into a foreign bank account and had been communicating with a woman in Uzbekistan.

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 man apparently faked his own drowning so he could abandon his family and flee to eastern Europe, investigators say.

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.

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,

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.