Still no proof-of-life photo of Olivia Newton-John's missing boyfriend Patrick Kim McDermott, but Tabloid Baby pal Dylan Howard, the international investigative reporter who’s broken a lot of news in the case that we kept alive, has new details from the official Coast Guard report into his disappearance at sea five years ago-- including the fact that McDermott was on the singer’s payroll.
Among the other new information that was published in Australia's New Idea magazine and around the world:
* McDermott purchased a .357 magnum three months before he disappeared
* Someone tried to access his computer between the time he vanished and when it was seized;
* A file from his computer contained information on how to fake an identity;
* He attempted suicide by pills at 17;
* He was drowning in debt and failing to meet child support;
* He had $755.01 in savings and $19,004.56 in credit card debt and was $8,000 behind in child support payments;
* He'd destroyed all his emails, including correspondence from Newtown-John;
* Started a company called Twice Alive Productions in 2003.
The investigation focuses on McDermott's nine-year relationship with the Newton-John, who never reported him missing after he vanished from a fishing boat on June 30, 2005. Newton-John failed to alert the media, whoch could have helped in a missing persons search, and it was seven weeks before a reporter noticed the name and Newton-John connection and broke the news.
Was Newton-John aware of his scheme? The report says she told investigators she wasn't aware of McDermott's financial straits, and that the last time she saw him was in mid-June, before she left on a trip to Australia (where she was when he disappeared). She said he'd come to her home to end their on-off relationship once again.
The report notes "official sightings" of McDermott in Malibu, Long Beach and San Luis Obispo, California, Calgary Canada, and Todos Santo, La Paz, Sayulita and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
The report says the US Coast Guard has labelled the McDermott probe a "deadbeat parent” case, which means the US State Department “remains on the lookout, but not actively searching for someone who has absconded from life’s responsibilities.”
Last month, a private eye working for NBC's tabloid show Dateline claimed to have "proof" that McDermott is alive and well in Baja Mexico (the destination of his fishing charter), but asked everyone to take his word for it until he writes a book.
Among the other new information that was published in Australia's New Idea magazine and around the world:
* McDermott purchased a .357 magnum three months before he disappeared
* Someone tried to access his computer between the time he vanished and when it was seized;
* A file from his computer contained information on how to fake an identity;
* He attempted suicide by pills at 17;
* He was drowning in debt and failing to meet child support;
* He had $755.01 in savings and $19,004.56 in credit card debt and was $8,000 behind in child support payments;
* He'd destroyed all his emails, including correspondence from Newtown-John;
* Started a company called Twice Alive Productions in 2003.
The investigation focuses on McDermott's nine-year relationship with the Newton-John, who never reported him missing after he vanished from a fishing boat on June 30, 2005. Newton-John failed to alert the media, whoch could have helped in a missing persons search, and it was seven weeks before a reporter noticed the name and Newton-John connection and broke the news.
Was Newton-John aware of his scheme? The report says she told investigators she wasn't aware of McDermott's financial straits, and that the last time she saw him was in mid-June, before she left on a trip to Australia (where she was when he disappeared). She said he'd come to her home to end their on-off relationship once again.
The report notes "official sightings" of McDermott in Malibu, Long Beach and San Luis Obispo, California, Calgary Canada, and Todos Santo, La Paz, Sayulita and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
The report says the US Coast Guard has labelled the McDermott probe a "deadbeat parent” case, which means the US State Department “remains on the lookout, but not actively searching for someone who has absconded from life’s responsibilities.”
Last month, a private eye working for NBC's tabloid show Dateline claimed to have "proof" that McDermott is alive and well in Baja Mexico (the destination of his fishing charter), but asked everyone to take his word for it until he writes a book.
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