was her story. eventually, said samantha, they found a place to hold up. mcafee died as air and whenever he needed to venture out into the open, he donned a disguise. he pretended he was a couple guy back. dyed his hair white. a beard. put on the hat, glasses. 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
the murder of greg faull, but not in belize. what will you do if you are charged with this murder and the u.s. forces you to go back to belize? will you disappear, will you you go to answer those charges? i ll answer any questions, i ve offered to answer them in a neutral country. it will not happen, sir. back on belize s amergris caye, american experts like vivian yu and jeff spiegel are left to wonder if the investigation of the greg faull s murder is even active. no one did anything. they re not looking for anybody else as far as we are concerned. why? we only know as much as you do, and as much as anybody else knows. , but nothing to do with gregory faull. does it really cut it. could detectives have made some sense at all had been able to question mcafee? as for john mcafee, after brief stints living in portland, oregon and colorado springs, and montreal, mcafee told us he found a permanent home in lexington, tennessee and among his many projects, the even started
america has 280 million of them. however, your neighbors are saying they weren t holding the gun down there, they re pointing them? that s not true. do you think i would tolerate that? get real! as he had from the beginning, mcafee insisted he had no motive for killing faull. he never believed faull was responsible for poisoning his dogs, he said. i knew who killed three dogs. who? the government. a witness who has no reason to lie claims that greg faull told him he was going to kill the dogs. he told everybody. the night before. he told everybody he was going to kill the dogs. he drank a lot, sir. i know for a fact he is not the kind of person who would kill a dog. how do you know that? he was a dog lover. i m told he didn t love dogs at all. that s fine. all i can tell you is i believed he loved dogs. there s lots of evidence to suggest greg faull killed your dogs. no, i say there s a lot of evidence where greg faull could have killed my dogs. anybody
it seemed like it s fiction. it doesn t seem real. he may have eluded the police, but he did not elude us. so, neither you nor anybody representing you went over to greg faull s house and shot him through in the head? no, sir. can you possibly get any inkling of the truth? you will not believe the things that happen. get ready for some serious heart of darkness here. hello, and welcome to dateline. silicon valley john mcafee launched a software firm to resign. eventually, he moved to an island off the coast of belize, saying he wants to get away from the rigid business rules in the states. but when his neighbor turned up dead, authorities wondered if mcafee those trying to get away with murder. investigators were determined to question the eccentric tech giant. but first, they would have to find him. here is keith morrison with the
welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. john mcafee life on the land ended when he suddenly popped up with his young lover in guatemala. wanted by authorities in belize for questioning in the murder of greg faull, mcafee told reporters he was now seeking political asylum from the persecution he suffered there. the announcement curated an international media frenzy while back in the states, faull s family believed the press was chasing the wrong story. back to keith morrison with the fugitive millionaire. four weeks after the murder of greg faull, we and much of the the world s press tried to find the elusive john mcafee. a spectacle which, for greg faull s father art and stepmom roseanne, was hard to take. i had phone call from cbs, nbc, abc, fox, cnn, the new york times, and the wall street