Lesson Of The Day: If You Want To Stage Your Death, Stay Off The Internet
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Do you remember four years ago, when Olivia Newton-John’s boyfriend of nine years vanished? He fell off a boat and was never found? Yeah, he’s alive. Patrick McDermott disappeared in June, 2005 while on a fishing charter. In 2008, the US Coast Guard released a report which concluded that McDermott had most likely drowned. Good call.
A team of private investigators hired by Dateline have determined that McDermott is alive and well and has been travelling through Mexico and South America. They set up a website called findpatrickmcdermott.com and tracked the missing Aussie as he logged in to the site from various locations. The missing cameraman was deeply in debt and probably staged his death as a way to escape his financial situation.
Olivia Newton-John, who married this June, had no comment.








