Patrick McDermott was Olivia Newton-John’s boyfriend when he disappeared without a trace on June 30, 2005, while on an overnight fishing trip. The first idea would be that he was lost at sea, but some elements didn’t match, like the fact that he paid his tab on the boat the next morning. It took ten days for his family to file a missing person’s report. Maybe because he was Olivia Newton-John’s boyfriend, people started talking about a faked death, and for years afterwards, even until 2018, journalists and investigators alleged that they had seen him in Mexico. This podcast goes through all of these speculations in detail but gets no further. The best hypothesis is that Patrick McDermott, accidentally or on purpose, fell from the boat and died that night in 2004. A thorough research and a remarkable case of how information can be misinformation for years, unintentionally and intentionally.
“However, Olivia did write about this chapter of her life in her autobiography : “I lived in pain for so long over this, but I had to teach myself to live in the now, which is an important life lesson.“
Six episodes of approximately 45 minutes each
Episode 1. A Star is Born
Episode 2. You Only Live Thrice
Episode 3. Witness
Episode 4. Dead Man Talking
Episode 5. Doppelgänger
Episode 6. Disclosure