Overview
- Matthew Hild’s A Little More Love reports the singer believed Patrick McDermott was killed or drowned, citing friend Liona Boyd.
- The biography says Newton-John asked security expert Gavin de Becker to send private investigators to Mexico, and the search found nothing.
- The U.S. Coast Guard closed its case in 2008 with a finding that McDermott was likely lost at sea.
- McDermott vanished during an overnight fishing trip off Los Angeles in June 2005 and has not been seen since.
- Unconfirmed tips and theories persisted for years, including a 2016 claim by private investigator John Nazarian that he saw McDermott in Mexico.