Olivia Newton-John's missing lover found in Mexico 12 years later

Olivia Newton-John's ex who is suspected of faking his own death after he didn't return from a fishing trip in June 2005 has been reportedly spotted in Mexico.

A team of investigators are claiming they have tracked down Patrick McDermott and he is alive and well in Mexico, according to reports from New Idea.



A photograph recovered from a Mexican campsite last month by US media agency Coleman-Rayner is said to show a shirtless Patrick lounging alongside a woman.

The man in the image bares a striking resemblance to the American cameraman, who owed thousands of dollars in backdated child support payments for son Chance at the time of his disappearance.
Top private investigator Charlie Parker supports the theory, saying he believes the undated photograph most likely shows Olivia's former partner of nine years.

The widow's peak is exact. The eyes are very similar and the ears extend down on the head the same distance. I believe it is him,' he told New Idea, adding that it is a '90 per cent match'.  
Patrick would be 60-years-old - roughly the same age the man in the photograph appears to be.
He was declared dead in 2008, despite not one of 22 passengers on board fishing boat Freedom seeing him go overboard in San Pedro, California.

Friends of Olivia said she will be relieved to finally learn of the alleged fate of her former lover, after being left in the dark all these years.