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Snapped Diane Borchardt and Ruben Borchardt

Status: Incarcerated

In Snapped Season 18, Episode 11, the story of Diane Borchardt is shown. This ends badly for her husband Ruben Borchardt in the state of Wisconsin.

Diane Borchardt was convicted of party to a crime first-degree homicide with the use of a dangerous weapon and sentenced to life with parole eligibility after forty years.

At approximately 3:35 a.m. on April 3, 1994, Ruben Borchardt was shot two times with a shotgun at his rural residence in Jefferson County.  Ruben’s son, Charles, age sixteen, who was upstairs, was awakened.  Charles found his father still conscious and able to state that two males had shot him.  Ruben also stated twice, “I can’t believe she would do this to me.”  After being conveyed to the hospital a short time later, Ruben died.

 At the time of the murder, Diane and Ruben Borchardt were in the middle of a highly contentious and very bitter divorce.  Borchardt knew that Ruben was having an affair with another woman throughout part of their marriage and throughout the divorce proceedings.  Borchardt worked at Jefferson High School as a teacher’s aide and was in charge of study hall periods.  It was here that she became acquainted with students Doug Vest, a co-defendant, and Tim Quintero.  Vest and Quintero were friends with co-defendants Josh Yanke and Michael Maldonado.  In addition to being friends, Vest, Quintero, and Maldonado also had familial ties and were cousins.  Besides working at Jefferson High School at the time of the homicide, Borchardt also had her own silk-screening t-shirt business in Jefferson, which was in financial difficulty.



You can write to Diane Borchardt at:

Diane Borchardt 298089
Taycheedah Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 1947
Fond Du Lac, WI 54935




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