Green Lake County Sheriff\'s Office

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- New video takes us deeper inside the missing Wisconsin kayaker mystery that got international attention.

After Ryan Borgwardt was sentenced to prison August 26 and his case was officially closed, our records requests for communication and video was fulfilled.

Hundreds of pages of documents and hours of video are shining a light on what happened when Borgwardt faked his own death last August.

For months people were stumped: How did Ryan Borgwardt fake his own death on a Wisconsin lake and then flee to a small country at the intersection of Europe and Asia? And why did he do it?

In an interview with Green Lake County sheriff's deputies last December, Borgwardt said, "The amount of hours that I spent trying to disappear would blow

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