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A Wisconsin kayaker who prosecutors said faked his own death to flee his family and meet up with a woman he met online was sentenced to the same number of days as police searched for him.

Ryan Borgwardt received the 89-day sentence this week following the August 2024 incident in which he staged his own drowning and left his wife and three children to rendezvous with a woman in the Eastern European country of Georgia.

"His entire plan to fake his death to devastate his family in order to serve his own selfish desires hinged on him dying in the lake and selling his death to the world," Green Lake County District Attorney Gerise LaSpisa said ahead of sentencing.

Investigators made contact with Borgwardt in November and con

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