for nearly a month, john mcafee, one of silicon valley s original princes of high tech, had been hiding from belizian police. they wanted to talk to him about the murder of his neighbor greg faull. now, detained in guatemala with nowhere to hide, john mcafee decided to talk to us. though, it must be said, he didn t seem to relish the prospect. here s the problem. you have a deadline, right? and your deadline is always now because the news has become immediacy. immediacy! your job is to get the news out before your competition. well, that makes your deadline infinite small. can you possibly get and the inkling of the truth and that infinite small space? no, but you can when you research things as we do. all the folks who is research everybody else.
The murder of greg faull is still an open case and that john mcafee is still the first person of interest, faull s family isn t holding their breath waiting for justice. it almost feels hopeless because, you know, it s a foreign country, and i don t know how to handle it. getting any answers or any contact from them? no, not anything from them at all. in 2013, the family filed a wrongful death suit against john mcafee. after the millionaire failed to respond to their claims, a federal judge deemed him to be a default, and ordered mcafee to pay faull s estate more than $25 million. in response, mcafee issued a statement, insisting he was never charged with greg faull s murder and claimed he had no assets, so he was unable to pay even a penny of the judgement against him. and he wouldn t be paying another nemesis either the irs. from undisclosed locations around the world, mcafee taunted the taxman on twitter. i have not paid taxes for eight years. i made no secret on it. i v
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 could ve killed my dogs. i know who poisoned my dog. the government? my paranoia tells me okay. agreed. neither you or anybody representing you who went over to greg faull s house on that occasion and pulled his t-shirt up over his head and shot him in the had? no, sir. the government poisoned my dogs. and the government killed greg faull? how would i know who killed greg faull? i don t believe the government killed him. that s the first thought through my mind, however. by the time we spoke, mcafee
I would not talk to our reporter. i don t trust you guys. can t imagine why. whenever i say to you people, because i live a lifestyle which might be a little over the line, or outside, over the line of normal behavior. instead of looking at the latest thing i m trying to develop, that s great, that s great about the antivirus. but tell me about your lifestyle. on the subject of greg faull, john mcafee conceded there was bad blood between the two of them. i did not particularly care for the man. he drank a lot. i am sorry. i don t hang with people who drink. i don t even want to talk to people who drink while they are drinking. in the weeks and months leading up to the murder, how often did you see him? maybe one time. maybe twice. and only passing the beach. he did come by one time, and said i m just angry but you, dogs can t sleep. i m really sorry, i can t sleep either. i m angry about my dogs. i sympathized. and? did you saw you were going to do something? yes, i bui
Experts on the island, they knew john mcafee casually. there were guards at his house. we didn t know all that was going on. jeff spiegel and his wife vivian yu said that customers walk into the restaurant just on the beach from mcafee s house had to first get past mcafee s dogs and guards. and if you are a tourist walking up and down the beach at night, and somebody shines a flashlight in your face while shouldering a shotgun, it can be disconcerting. such a harsh vibe for such a peaceful place. not at all what greg faull expected when he moved to amergris caye in may of 2012. we got to know greg because working for 12 hours a day, he would come up to our bar and hang out and talk and close it down. and greg faull said jeff was right out of central casting.