EXCLUSIVE: Guns, Lies & Missing Money - The Official Report Into Olivia Newton John's Missing Ex-Lover
May 3 2010, Published 2:50 p.m. ET
The US Coast Guard's explosive, top secret dossier on Patrick McDermott, Olivia Newton John's vanished ex-lover, has been obtained by RadarOnline.com, five years after his mysterious disappearance and includes stunning never-before-released evidence.
The sensational files on McDermott, who vanished during a deep sea fishing trip off Los Angeles, two weeks after he and the Grease star broke up, detail the most bizarre twists in the case that has left law enforcement investigators baffled.
DOCUMENTS: The 118 Page Coast Guard Report On Patrick McDermott: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
On March 11, 2005, less than three months before Patrick stepped onto the Freedom vessel and was never seen again, he bought a .357 magnum.
Investigators have never found the gun: in a search of his former Los Angeles residence, in the commission of any crime or as having been pawned at a second hand store.
Olivia Newton John Missing Boyfriend, Pat McDermott Sends Mystery Note
And it includes claims that Patrick was pocketing payments from his superstar girlfriend, at a time when he was drowning in mounting debt and failing to meet child support.
In another startling revelation, it can be revealed that Olivia didn’t contact investigators until July 20 -- nine days after her personal assistant rang her in Australia to raise the alarm that the man she dated for almost a decade was missing.
Eventually Olivia, 61, made three statements to Coast Guard special agents probing the case.
The first time, she called from Australia, according to the special agents’ assigned to the case, because she "wanted to know if there was any news on the whereabouts of McDermott".
"The last time Newton John saw McDermott was the day she departed for Australia, sometime in mid June 2005," the investigators noted, in their “Report of Investigation”.
It was that devastating moment when the pair ended their romance - forever.
"During that visit, Patrick came to the residence (in Malibu) to say goodbye, he gave me flowers and a card, but left prior to my departure to the airport," the documents quote Newton John as telling the agents.
“Patrick thought it would be good that we separate while I was in Australia for two months. We both mutually agreed on the break-up.
"This had happened in the past and normally we got back together because we missed each other too much.
"Patrick seemed to have a good attitude (to the breakup)... we parted on good terms.”
Olivia told investigators Patrick, who staff said had moved in just a few months earlier, took some items he had stored from the house.
But she protested she did not ever ask him to move his personal items out.
"While I was in Australia, we did not telephone each other because of the break-up, but we did exchange email about the projects he was working on at the residence,” she added.
"But I never talked to him again."
The Coast Guard files also contains interviews with Olivia’s longtime assistant, who confirmed Patrick was on the star’s payroll, for working around her home.
As investigators were probing suspicions Patrick may have staged his death to cash in on life insurance claims in the midst of a personal financial crisis -- he had just $755.01 in savings and $19,004.56 in credit card debt when he disappeared -- Olivia told them she had no idea about his private financial affairs.
"I have no knowledge of financial problems, social problems or anything that would make him want to disappear," she was quoted, as telling the government agency.
"The only medical problems that I knew Patrick had was an occasional back spasm whenever he lifted heavy items."
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