A Father's Fake Death for Faraway Love w/ Jay Jurden
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Laci welcomes back comedian Jay Jurden (Yes Ma’am) to break down the scam of shrinkflation at stand-up comedy shows and to unpack the bizarre true story of Ryan Borgwardt, a Wisconsin cabinetmaker who faked his own death in a kayaking accident, abandoning his wife and three kids to start a new life with an Eastern European woman he met online. Stay schemin’!
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Research by Kathryn Doyle
SOURCES
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lie-wisconsin-kayaker-faked-drowning-fled-country-told/story?id=125419190
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/candid-comments-kayaker-who-faked-35878304
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/wisconsin-ryan-borgwardt-wife-georgia-b2823424.html
https://www.wisn.com/article/wife-of-wisconsin-man-accused-of-faking-his-own-death-files-for-divorce-missing-kayaker/63173392
https://www.wisn.com/article/i-kept-going-wisconsin-husband-details-how-he-faked-his-own-death/66030235
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/us/wisconsin-missing-kayaker
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