I remember the night was very dark. We pulled into his home. It did have the feel of him as being he had a lot going on. A Millionaire Computer Genus Living In Paradise and on the edge. I tried to cut his throat and he said to it. He takes the gun out and puts it to his head. The jungle started to infect him like a virus. His neighbor suddenly found dead. There was blood all over the floor. Everyone was crying. Has said impossible. And the millionaire was suddenly on the run taunting authorities, launching a chase. It seemed like its fiction. It does not seem real. He may have eluded the police, but he did not elude us. Neither you nor anybody representing you went over to Gregory Faulls house and shot him in the head . No, sir. You will not believe the things that happened. Get ready for some serious Heart To Darkness [ bleep ] here. Hello and welcome to dateline. Silicon valley pioneer john mcafee launched a hugely Successful Software firm only to resign. Eventually, he moved to an island off the coast of belize saying he wanted to get away from the rigid Business Rules in those states. When his neighbor turned up dead, authorities wondered if mcafee was trying to get away with murder. Investigators were determined to question him but first they had to find him. Here is Keith Morrison with the fugitive millionaire. American murdered and a tropical paradise while a famous and wealthy man went on the run. I was trying to delay my imminent capture. Why was he hiding . He is bonkers. The story is a strange brew of Dogs Handguns and girls. Teenaged girls. I was ready to shoot him and for some reason i missed. Interconnected web with one man at its center. John is smart. He knows what he is doing. The case would take us from Silicon Valley to the jungles of Central America and finally back stateside into the deep south. Get ready for some serious Heart Of Darkness [ bleep ] here. Heart of darkness . A while the strange tale about a highflying Business Tycoon named john mcafee and the chain of events that would make him the focus of an international manhunt. There is little doubt you know the name mcafee, even if you do not recognize his face. You probably had Antivirus Software on your computer at one time or another. The past three weeks we have seen five new viruses. In the 1980s, it was a visionary john mcafee who recognize the threat posed by visible Computer Viruses and made a fortune by devising defenses to stop them. David is a Business Reporter for cnbc. He made 100 million when it was really something to make 100 million. He knew mcafee cost most of that in the real estate bust. This is called snake valley for obvious reasons that i hope we do find about. It was 2009 and he was making a documentary. He found mcafee at his new adopted home in believes. Above and charismatic than 64 yearold made a fascinating case study. My life turned around 180 degrees down here. I mention the freedom here. There are virtually no regulations on business. A lot have belize as a paradise like me because i can do anything i want. There are no laws. Intellectual property, nobody cares. I can start anything. And, he did whenever he perceived an opportunity to make a buck. Water taxis. But his pride and joy he told him was the creation of a special lab in which you plan to make new medicines from jungle plants. Hopefully, production of some fairly unique pharmaceuticals. With a beach, the island and a Jungle Compound on the mainland near the town of car melita, john mcafee could afford to live large and still make an impression. He invited me over to his home and i walked in and he was playing the piano. It did have the feel love, spinning in a bond movie and this is your villain in some ways. He didnt turn 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 to wired and onetime nbc news consultant. He got to know mcafee after he Learned Police had raided his mainland compound, looking for Illegal Drugs. I heard about this radon april 30 when the police force burst into his compound in the jungle and that struck me as extraordinary. As it turned out, the police did you find Illegal Drugs at his compound. Although mcafee was charged with having an unlicensed gun. The fact Police Suspected him of making drugs was intriguing. He had been an outspoken teetotaler after kicking a drug habit. Davis went to belize to investigate. It was there said davis, mcafee told him the belizean government was seriously corrupt and the paramilitary Gang Suppression Unit was out to get him. One of his initial exhalations for weather raid happened was one of the local politicians had, and asked for a donation. He had refused and as a result, they sick the gsu on him. To worship belizean government responded, nonsense. They rated him because they did not know what was going on. He had this laboratory and it was heavily guarded. He had a private army essentially. He has a laboratory making god knows what because he will not tell anybody. Davis went to carmelita, the town nearest his Jungle Compound where townspeople told him, he said, that mcafee had as he got more involved in this Little Village of carmelita, the way he talked , his dress devolved. I think the jungle and that environment started to infect him almost like a virus. Thats what he said to his friends. My fragile connection with Polite Society has been severed. After that, he moved back to his island house where davis reported he surrounded himself with guard dogs, armed men, and several teenaged girls. In a country where the age of consent is 16, he told davis he like to keep them busy, and bed. He told me for him five hours is a quickie. Then he brought out one of the girls to prove a point and she said thats true. He was 67 living a schoolboys dream whether it was a heavily armed dream. He was convinced that manno billed himself as the worlds greatest security expert was now a Security Risk to himself and others. We were in his bungalow and he had a smith wesson 38 special in a holster. He takes the gun out and opens the chamber and their six bullets. He drops him out and takes one and chambers it encloses it and spins a cylinder and puts it to his head. Im like, john, we dont have to do this. He said, i know we dont. He said your perception of reality may not be correct. And he starts pulling the trigger. Click, click, click, click, click. Five times and theres only six chambers then he pulls it a sixth time and nothing happens. He said you missed something about reality. I said its a trick. He says its not a trick and he opens the door and aims at the sand and pulls the trigger and the bullet goes off. It was a live round. Paranoid eccentrics make good stories but rarely make good neighbors. 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A harsh five for such a peaceful place. Not what Gregory Faull expected when he moved here in may 2012. We got to know greg because after working 12 hours a day, he would come to the bar and hang out and talk and close it down. And Gregory Faull said jeff was out of central casting. He made his money in the Construction Business in florida and in belize he was living out of fantasy. The first time he walked to the bar, caribbean, a guy with a bahama tshirt and a parrot on his shoulder. I said you realize that you have become that guy. A happygolucky guy but oh, those dogs. Greg faull had been bitten and a profound dislike for john mcafee followed. A couple times and john was out there and greg was yelling at him. Keep your dogs and set the fence. We have tours here. They are biting people. It came to a head on the night of november 9, 2012, a friday. Thats one four of john mcafees dogs were poison. Many on the island suspected that greg did it. He told everybody he was going to poison those dogs. Everybody he knew he was going to poison the dogs. 36 hours later, early on a sunday morning, he woke up 12 ringing phone. It was greg faulls caretaker. Greg, he said, was dead. I was thinking heart attack. Im thinking he couldve slipped and fell on the tile. No. When the mccance and other ex pats got to his house, it was clear it was no slip and fall. His body was there motionless. There was blood all over the floor. There was blood everywhere. Police determined that greg faull was killed with a single gunshot to the back of the head, execution style. There was one oddly horrifying detail. The position of greg faulls t shirt. It was pulled over like a hockey move. Pulled the center over your head like that. It was all the way behind his neck. The shirt was still on. He was struck by the fact in spite of the obvious violence, there seemed to be no sign of a robbery or even a struggle anywhere in the house. I found out that somebody could subdue somebody like greg at 52 years old, exmilitary, how could you subdue somebody like that . Figured have a chance he wouldve put up a fight. That was the first thing that gregs father thought when he got the news in jacksonville, florida. I said it cant possibly happen. Not greg. I dont think anyone could have overpowered greg if he had a chance. I suspect he never had a chance. Given the bad blood between greg faull and john mcafee, the Belizean Police that it would be a good idea to walk down the beach and have a word with the reclusive millionaire. The trouble was they could not find him. He had up and disappeared. In short order, the Police Declared him the prime suspect. The news flashed around the world. The Tech Millionaire is now a fugitive. Celebrity manhunt that was like so i packed my bags and put the flight to belize. Coming up. A onetime member of his harem lets us into his layer. You try to shoot him. T him. Smile you found it. 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He insisted he knew nothing about his neighbors murder. Let me ask you point blank, did you kill him . No. No, sir. Its not funny. Not only did he deny committing a murder, he proposed a astonishing idea. The bullet that killed greg faull was really meant for him. The first thing i thought about was oh, my god. Hes a white man and im a white man. The government decided to off me and they got the wrong white man. He said the last thing i will do is turn myself in because the police will kill me. A truly believe the Belizean Police wanted to get rid of him. Do him in. I am trying to delay my imminent capture. Arm to the laptop and cell phone and the flare for the dramatic, he tantalize the present tone to the police with clues he was still there. There are police and there. Armed police with a rifle who were looking through the house. As they do on a regular basis or have been since the beginning. Any expectation that he will be here, but they are looking. Although police admitted they had no other suspect. His classification was downgraded to the less ominous sounding Person Of Interest. We still think he is here. He was the police spokesman. We believe he will come in. And you will arrest him . We will detain him and ask questions. Undermanned and underfunded, the police were seemed ill equipped to actually hunt him down. A man