Mystery Grab Bag

There’s an old saying that if you hear hoofbeats, you should think
horses, not zebras. It means that in most situations, the simplest,
most likely explanation is probably the right one. But you know we
deal in “stranger than fiction” here, folks, and sometimes you turn
around expecting horses and you get a stampeding herd of zebras
instead. Things are not always what they seem at first glance. And
today, we’ll tell you two stories where digging down below the
surface pulled investigators through the looking glass, and into
the strangest cases they’d ever seen.

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Source:
https://fox11online.com/news/local/man-accused-of-faking-his-own-death-to-face-another-status-conference-ryan-borgwardt-green-lake-county-kayak-europe-charges-obstruction-restitution-search-missing

https://www.wmtv15news.com/2025/06/04/another-status-conference-scheduled-wisconsin-man-accused-faking-his-death/

https://www.milwaukeemag.com/what-happened-to-the-kayaker-who-faked-his-drowning-in-green-lake/

https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2024/11/21/ryan-borgwardt--wisconsin-kayaker--fake-death

Investigation Discovery's "Forensic Files" episode "Grave
Danger"
NBC's "Dateline," episode "Bodies of Evidence"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-burned-alive-no-limbs-33703446


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