"He just had personal matters going on, and he felt that this was the right thing to do. There was talk about the life insurance plan that he took out — it wasn't for him, it was for his family. He was just going to try to make things better in his mind that this was the way it was going to be," Green Lake County Chief Sheriff Mark Podoll said, according to the Wisconsin newspaper.
Ryan Borgwardt, Wisconsin kayaker who faked his death, jailed for 89 days
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Podoll said police were "pulling at his heartstrings” to come home.
Ryan Borgwardt, who faked his death and fled to Eastern Europe, has willingly returned to the U.S.
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