i remember the night i arrived in belize. he invited me over to his home. and i walked in, and he was playing the piano. and it did have the feel of almost being in a bond movie, and this was your villain, in some ways. he didn t turn to me and say, hello, mr. faber, but it almost had that feel to it. i think he likes drama. i think he likes intense experiences. joshua davis is a contributing editor of wired magazine, and one time cnbc news consultant. he got to know mcafee after he learned that belizian police had rated the millionaires mainland compound, looking for illegal drugs. i heard about this raid on april 30th, when the belizian police force burst into his compound in the jungle, and that struck me as extraordinary. as it turned out, the police
dogs were poisoned. many on the and immediately suspected that greg did it. he told everybody that he was going to poison those dogs. you know? everybody knew he was going to poison the dogs. 36 hours later, early on a sunday morning, shane mccann woke up to a ringing phone. it was greg faull s caretaker. greg, he said, was dead. we thought heart attack. i was thinking heart attack. i m thinking he could ve slipped and fell on a tile. but no. when the mccann s another expats got to greg s house, it was clear this was no slip and fall. his body was there, motionless. there was blood all over the floor. there was blood everywhere. police soon determined that greg faull had been killed as a single gunshot to the back of the head, execution style. there was one oddly horrifying detail the position of greg faull s t-shirt. it was pulled over like a
none. we traveled a long way for that phone call, and still no closer to laying eyes on, than were the belizian police. then, days after the call, mcafee s blog reported he d been captured in mexico, but no. that turned out to be false. and then on december 4th, 2012, nearly a month after greg faull was murdered, mcafee announced on his block that he and his young female companion had crossed the border to guatemala. why here? well, a couple of very practical reasons. some of them about family, and some international politics. and because of that, the story got even stranger. after weeks on the run, there he was, in the flesh. according to mcafee, he was not running from a homicide investigation. oh no, he said he was in guatemala to ask for political asylum, and protection from the government of belize. seven months ago, the belizian government sent 42 armed soldiers into my property. i had to leave, but the story
a few months after this interview, the self professed teetotaller was arrested while driving under the influence and possession of a handgun while intoxicated. in typical mcafee-fashion, he joked about the incident on social media and claimed, falsely, that he had a shootout with police. he pleaded guilty to a dui, forfeited his weapon, paid a fine, and spent 48 hours in jail. all of which begs the question can anybody take seriously anything john mcafee says? as you might imagine, for greg faull s family, the answer to that is no. it doesn t make any sense at all if mcafee claims hs innocence. why did he disappear and make a circus of this whole thing? i don t understand it. and i just wish someone would investigate it, or find someone who can talk about it, and bring some justice, somewhere. though, the belizians say
whatever it would take for a safety, he would do. nobody recognized him? no one ever recognized him. according to her, it was her uncle, the lawyer, who arranged of her and mcafee smuggled out of belize by taxicab to punta gorda and then by boat to guatemala. it has been an adventure for me, yet disturbing. because i don t like to leave my house. it makes me sick. you don t feel well? i don t. john mcafee wasn t exactly feeling on top of the world either, it seemed. first, a guatemalan judge summarily dismissed his position for political asylum, and then the guatemalan police took him into custody. not as a murder suspect, but on the grounds he had entered the country illegally, and then the next day at a local immigration detention center, as a gaggle of media waited to find out if guatemala and authorities would send mcafee back to belize, this story took a heart-stopping turn. within sight of the assembled cameras, john mcafee suddenly swooned and appeared to lose cons