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Patrick Kim McDermott is a light technician who was a long time boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John. He is believed to have drowned on a fishing trip on June 30, 2005. McDermott is half-Korean, and was adopted from Korea by an American couple. McDermott had previously filed for bankruptcy and had received a court order to pay overdue child support to his former wife, actress Yvette Nipar. Nipar and McDermott were married on March 1, 1992 when Nipar was four months pregnant. They divorced 15 months later on June 30, 1993. He disappeared from a fishing charter boat off San Pedro, California, on June 30, 2005. The 48-year-old McDermott was a passenger on the fishing boat Freedom which had left from the San Pedro marina for an overnight fishing trip. The 22 passengers and three crew members on board gave contradicting reports of his whereabouts both during and at the conclusion of the trip.[1] His absence was apparently unnoticed until July 6, 2005, when he failed to attend a family event. His body has never been recovered.

A Coast Guard investigation released in November 2008 concluded that McDermott "most likely" drowned. However, the circumstances of his disappearance have fueled speculation that he faked his own death. The case has been featured on America`s Most Wanted. In a 2009 feature on Dateline NBC, investigators went undercover to look for him in Mexico, where they believed he may be in hiding. The investigators claim that he disappeared to avoid debts, including USD$8,000 owed to his ex-wife for child support, and created the website FindPatrickMcDermott.com for the sole purpose of trapping Mr. McDermott. As the Dateline special showed, all visitors` web addresses were logged and mapped. The Dateline investigators currently believe Mr. McDermott is living in a boat off the west coast of Mexico and continue to track hits to their website. The Dateline investigators claim that there have been over 20 sightings of McDermott in Mexico and Central America.