i remember the night, was very dark. we pulled in to his home. it did have the feel of almost being in a bond movie. he had a lot going on. a millionaire computer genius living in paradise, and on the edge. i tried to cut his throat, but he just said, do it . he takes the gun out, and he puts it to his said. the jungle started to infect him, almost like a virus. then came the mystery his neighbor suddenly found dead. there was blood all over the floor. everyone was crying. i said, no, it can t possibly happen. and the millionaire suddenly on the run, taunting authorities, launching a chase, an international hide and seek hunt. 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 rea
the jungle started to infect him, almost like a virus. then came the mystery his neighbor suddenly found dead. there was blood all over the floor. everyone was crying. i said, no, it can t possibly happen. and the millionaire suddenly on the run, taunting authorities, launching a chase, an international hide and seek hunt. 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, au
let me ask you for the record, point blank, because i don t think i did before, did you kill him? [laughs] no, sir. no, sir. not even a funny. okay. not only did he deny committing murder, he proposed an astonishing idea. the bullet that killed faull had really been meant for him. the first thing i thought about was, oh, my god. he s a white man, i m a white man, someone, you know, the government finally decided to off me. they got the wrong white man. so, he says, the last thing i m going to do is turn myself into the police because they will kill me. kill him? yes. he truly believed the belizian police wanted to get rid of him, rub him out, do him in. i m trying to delay my imminent capture. armed with a laptop and cell phone and a flare for the dramatic, mcafee tantalized the press and talented to the police with clues he was still
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
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