“The bad news is we don’t know where Ryan exactly is, and he has not yet decided to return home.”.
Borgwardt, wearing an orange T-shirt and not smiling, looked directly into the camera in the video, which appears to have been taken on his phone.
Borgwardt said he was in his apartment and briefly panned the camera but mostly showed just a door and bare walls.
He told authorities he picked that lake because it’s the deepest in Wisconsin at 237 feet (over 72 meters).
The search for his body went on for more than 50 days, with divers on several occasions exploring the lake.
The laptop’s hard drive had been replaced and the browsers had been cleared the day Borgwardt disappeared, the sheriff’s office said.
Podoll said he wasn’t sure how he was supporting himself but speculated he has a job: “He’s a smart guy.”. »