Husband & Father of 3 Fakes Drowning To Run Off With Woman He Met Online

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Authorities searched for more than a month for his body to the cost of $35,000. He wound up in Canada first and I wondered how he had pulled that off. The article below explains how he did it. Now he's in Eastern Europe and communicating with authorities. They're trying to convince him to come home to his family. No charges yet. Seriously?!! I wouldn't want the POS back if I was his wife.

"Borgwardt’s disappearance was first investigated as a possible drowning after he went kayaking on Green Lake, about 100 miles (160km) north-west of Milwaukee, in August. But subsequent clues – including that he had obtained a new passport three months before he disappeared – led investigators to speculate that he had faked his death to meet up with a woman he had been communicating with in Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia."
Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own death tells police he’s ‘safe’
 

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He really thought very little of his family to do something like this.

I agree I wouldn't want him back if he was my husband. If I was his kid, I wouldn't want him back as my father. There's no way to imagine what they have been going through ... and then to find out he wasn't dead & did this elaborate hoax to be with another woman.

If he really wanted to leave, just be honest that you want to out even though it wouldn't make things right. While it's not illegal to just disappear on your own accord & have nothing to do with anyone in your past life, he did things that will land him in trouble.

Just for starters, the faking of his death & disappearing is the same as filing fictitious report. Then you have the cost to locate his body that wasn't there & the money it cost the local authorities for that. Not to mention the $375,000 insurance policy that now won't be paid to his family & I don't see why they wouldn't file charges for insurance fraud.
 
Lilac said:
He really thought very little of his family to do something like this.

I agree I wouldn't want him back if he was my husband. If I was his kid, I wouldn't want him back as my father. There's no way to imagine what they have been going through ... and then to find out he wasn't dead & did this elaborate hoax to be with another woman.

If he really wanted to leave, just be honest that you want to out even though it wouldn't make things right. While it's not illegal to just disappear on your own accord & have nothing to do with anyone in your past life, he did things that will land him in trouble.

Just for starters, the faking of his death & disappearing is the same as filing fictitious report. Then you have the cost to locate his body that wasn't there & the money it cost the local authorities for that. Not to mention the $375,000 insurance policy that now won't be paid to his family & I don't see why they wouldn't file charges for insurance fraud.
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I agree with you. I thought about insurance fraud also but the article says the policy wasn't on him but on his family. Before I read that part I thought maybe he did it so his family would get the insurance money.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I agree with you. I thought about insurance fraud also but the article says the policy wasn't on him but on his family. Before I read that part I thought maybe he did it so his family would get the insurance money.
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Okay, I read it wrong. Makes you wonder why he'd take a policy out on them if he was going to leave since he wasn't going to be "alive" to collect it if something would have happened.
 
I thoroughly despise that guy's values. I suppose it may be more readily possible nowadays to abscond further on the globe than it was 50 or 75 years ago. Is selfishness and irresponsibility greater now than it used to be? Well, I might assume so.

Still, it makes me think of that little farm boy in the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?", set in the 1930s. The boy lives on a hard-scrabble farm with his father and discloses to the three guests that his mother "r-u-n-n-o-f-t".shrug half 2.jpeg
 
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OneEyedDiva said:
Authorities searched for more than a month for his body to the cost of $35,000. He wound up in Canada first and I wondered how he had pulled that off. The article below explains how he did it. Now he's in Eastern Europe and communicating with authorities. They're trying to convince him to come home to his family. No charges yet. Seriously?!! I wouldn't want the POS back if I was his wife.

"Borgwardt’s disappearance was first investigated as a possible drowning after he went kayaking on Green Lake, about 100 miles (160km) north-west of Milwaukee, in August. But subsequent clues – including that he had obtained a new passport three months before he disappeared – led investigators to speculate that he had faked his death to meet up with a woman he had been communicating with in Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia."
Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own death tells police he’s ‘safe’
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Those Uzbeki women can be very charming.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I agree with you. I thought about insurance fraud also but the article says the policy wasn't on him but on his family. Before I read that part I thought maybe he did it so his family would get the insurance money.
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Everything I've read/heard stated that he took out an insurance policy "for his family"... meaning it was on himself and to help his family after he'd be declared dead. "For" his family, not "on" his family. That's my understanding. @OneEyedDiva
 
I'm going to play Devels Advocate.... As I have personally been affected by something similar. Not saying its right but.....

My Father had run everything into the ground and had set up a complicated plan. He was 51 and still had the 2 youngest at home.
He had arranged to meet a relator at his deceased parents home. The relator arrived to find his car in the yard, back door kicked in and my Father shot in the shoulder and face in the garage.... rifle was from in the house, nearly 8 foot away, and there had been 3 shots fired with no fingerprints on it.
On the 3rd day of investigating, they figured out he had staged it. He had used a tape measure to push the trigger while the rifle laid on the bench. They just happened to pick up the tape to doublecheck something and found his blood and brain matter on it He had taken out a $750K insurance to take care of the family. Of course it didn't help any......since he survived it. Was on a vent and in a coma 6 months, Wife refused to turn off the vent, several years in a nursing home... Stubborn SOB lived to be 84, relearned to walk, even got his driver license back.
My Stepmom stayed with him till his final day. She is now 97 and lives in the same nursing home he was in. Both daughters developed a nack for nursing helping take care of him and became their careers.... And I still have the rifle....
 
At first, I thought the $350,000 insurance policy was on him, so at least to keep his kids with a home. But policy was on the family? I wonder if this rat was planning to ice his wife, collect, and then move in with Miss Uzbekistan??????? And what he did was "plan B".
 
Very familiar with Uzbekistan and know many folks from there, including certain family members. They have a very active Mafia, both here & at home.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
At first, I thought the $350,000 insurance policy was on him, so at least to keep his kids with a home. But policy was on the family? I wonder if this rat was planning to ice his wife, collect, and then move in with Miss Uzbekistan??????? And what he did was "plan B".
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I believe the policy was on himself and he did it "for the family." Many of the news write-ups were not clear in how they stated that.
 
CallMeKate said:
I believe the policy was on himself and he did it "for the family." Many of the news write-ups were not clear in how they stated that.
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I agree it's poor wording.
But,duh!!! In a previous life I was a licensed life insurance agent. It just dawned on me that without a death certificate the insurance company won't pay out. Without a death certificate, it would involve a long (years) lawsuit and a usually very small settlement.
 
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CallMeKate said:
Everything I've read/heard stated that he took out an insurance policy "for his family"... meaning it was on himself and to help his family after he'd be declared dead. "For" his family, not "on" his family. That's my understanding. @OneEyedDiva
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Okay... yes that makes sense. So if it was in fact on himself he should be charged with insurance fraud.
 
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Well, I don't suspect the authorities want him back in the U.S. for his family, although they may play that angle.
If it were a simple domestic matter, his wife would be talking to him, not authorities.
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I sure hope you're right about that, otherwise it would be a travesty!
 

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