business in central america. >> is there a specific point went he goes off the rails? >> of course, he's the main suspect. >> did you order a hit on him? >> of course not. please. >> nine of your dogs were poisoned, and the one who ordered it is dead. >> we tracked him from belize to guatemala, miami to middle america. >> why go on the run? >> because if i didn't, i'd be a dead man. >> tonight, he's ready to talk. about his rise, fall, and new rise. only to "20/20." >> are you losing your mind? >> are you? >> and the fireworks are just getting started. >> good-bye. >> you're walking out on the interview. >> yes. damn word. >> good evening. i'm elizabeth vargas. >> and i'm david muir. he calls himself the god of computer security, and now john mcafee is answering hard questions tonight about what happened after he made millions. >> he's front and center at a time when everybody is focused on computer hacking. but what happened on the mysterious off the radar years, when he was suspected of taking a life? matt gutman has been following him for four years to find out. >> reporter: there are so many layers to the epic, disturbing story of john mcafee. maybe because there are so many john mcafees. >> john mcafee is one of the wildest characters you'll ever come across. >> reporter: there's mcafee the party animal. >> john? >> huh? >> reporter: mcafee the silicon valley gazillionare. >> it is the number one computer threat. >> reporte >> he's someone that i feel is dangerous. >> reporter: even mcafee the presidential candidate. >> stand with me to protect our freedom. >> reporter: pinning down the truth of mcafee's life story is never easy because often it is as slippery as he is. >> he is like teflon, nothing sticks to the man. >> reporter: if the name "mcafee" rings a bell, it should. there's a good chance it's on your home computer screen right now. yup, he's the guy behind the famous mcafee antivirus software. when we say we are going to talk tomorrow, does that mean face to face? i first crossed paths with mcafee in 2012, when he'd become even more famous south of the border. he was on the run, and would only talk to me by phone. >> you may not think you are being followed but i can assure you, you are. >> reporter: hello? anybody home? but i wasn't chasing him around latin america because of a cyber crime. this was a real life homicide, allegations that he murdered fellow american greg faull. >> we begin with that software of murder. >> reporter: police wanted to question mcafee about the murder, but he didn't want to answer. he dodged authorities all the way back to the u.s. where he has been ever since, never charged with a crime. >> the pandora's box has been opened. >> reporter: but what makes this story even stranger is john mcafee's latest incarnation. >> our computers are no longer back home in the office, they are in our hands. >> reporter: these days he's re-emerged as a prophet of digital doom and his apocalyptic warnings about today's cyber threats attract plenty of eyeballs both in person, and on tv. >> we're being spied on by our government. >> reporter: even with all that attention, what he hasn't done since returning home is a no holds barred interview on every aspect of his past. but now, after more than four years, i'm about to get my chance. i admit, i've heard so many things about him. he's erratic, he's a high-tech prince of darkness, he's just plain dangerous, that i'm nervous. i've been warned about john mcafee. so i'm keeping my second cell phone and my credit cards here at the hotel so they don't get hacked. i drive on to our meeting place, a parking lot in rural tennessee, where mcafee greets me like a southern gentleman. >> how you doing, sir? good to see you. >> reporter: how are you? we talk a bit and head off in his tanklike truck. >> if i have to put up with people like you then i'm going to have fun doing it. >> reporter: to him, reporters are just like a ball of twine to a cat, something to play with until he gets bored. we arrive at a quiet suburban downtown for a casual lunch at this mexican restaurant. >> you like mexican food? >> reporter: yeah, i like mexican food. sure. you said you grew up in town like this in virginia, right? between bites of chips and salsa, and beers for mcafee, we talked about his troubled childhood. one of things that was not idyllic there was your father. you've said that he was a raging alcoholic and that he was abusive to you and to your mother. even children.hedyed when you were 15? >> 15. >> reporter: he shot himself? >> yeah. people always look to the past to explain the present. it doesn't work that way. >> reporter: the present for mcafee -- this upscale but hardly lavish spread. he shares it with his new wife janis, his everpresent bodyguard, and his dogs. as we sit down inside, fortified by a glass of expensive scotch, mcafee continues with his life story, saying that despite being a lazy kid, he always got straight "a"s. >> math came easy to me. i've never studied. i just did what i felt i should do. >> reporter: in college, mcafee says he began peddling a product he knew he could sell, cocaine. it's interesting that drug dealing was really your first foray into entrepreneurship? >> yeah. it's everything, it's salesmanship. >> reporter: then came the dawn of the go-go '80s. ♪ big hair, even bigger shoulder pads, pac man fever. as the home computer revolution kicked in, mcafee, now working as a programmer, was among the first to identify its perils and a potential profit. >> a computer virus is a programmer written by a hacker with a unique purpose, and that purpose is to multiply and to live. i was figuring out, oh yeah, i can stop this here, i could stop this here, i can actually remove this thing. and wrote a program in a day and a half. >> reporter: so mcafee antivirus was created in a day and a half? >> yes. >> reporter: and how well did it work? >> 4 million people were using it within a month. >> five years later over half the fortune 500 companies in the country had begun using it. that's how important it became to their business and to keeping their computers safe. >> reporter: in no time, the software bad boy amassed a large fortune. but as mcafee admits he gets bored easily, so after a few years he cashed out. you made $100 million, let's say, for selling mcafee, right? >> that's what they say. >> reporter: how much did you make? >> much more. >> reporter: what did you do with the money? >> i wasted it, like everybody who has money. >> reporter: he built nine homes, filled them with expensive art and furniture, bought a fleet of antique cars. >> is that love? isn't it selfishness? isn't it all about you? >> reporter: his next chapter, creating a yoga retreat in colorado, reinventing himself as a new age guru bestowing his eternal wisdom on his guests. >> it's all about need and jealousy is all about the fear of losing all of these things which you have attained. >> reporter: but mcafee says his zen was disturbed by a constant wave of what he calls frivolous lawsuits. >> tonight on "nightline," losing a fortune. >> reporter: so after th financial crash, in 2009 mcafee let it be known he had lost most of his money. >> how to kiss nearly $100 million dollars good-bye. >> sometimes a little bit of pain is necessary to see and understand the true circumstances of your life. >> reporter: "nightline" covered this auction on mcafee's ranch where everything, including his beloved airplanes, winnebagos, exotic art collection, even the gold elephant and dinosaur skull went on the block. >> starting off at $1 million. >> reporter: mcafee now claims he it was all a charade, a ruse. he was just trying to look broke so people would stop suing him. >> no, i didn't lose my fortune. i'm not that stupid. >> reporter: whatever the case, one part of that report is indisputable. >> now mcafee plans to take his remaining handful of millions and head to central america. >> reporter: next stop, belize. he figured no one would sue him there, but he pr imagined his time there would make him an international fugitive. stay with us. le word. this mother's day create a gift from the heart that could only come from the pandora boutique at jared. a world of pandora... including exclusive pieces designed just for jared. ready to be mixed, matched and stacked with help from jared's own pandora expert. the one gift that speaks volumes, you'll both treasure forever. that's why he went to jared. go to great lengths frto find relief.ain nally there'drug-free eve direct therapy® a tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors' offices for deep penetrating relief at the source. aleve direct therapy. what's the best way to get v8 or a fancy juice store?s? 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mcafee admits he brought in young women to be in his harem. then there was the gang of convicted criminals mcafee proudly says he hired as his armed bodyguards, his own private militia. >> everybody i hired was an ex-felon and had spent half of their life in prison. >> reporter: that sounds like a recipe for disaster. >> they never shot anybody. never even pointed a gun at anybody because they were dangerous people. >> he called them hit men. he told me repeatedly that he could have people hu >> reporter: adonizio says it all became too much for her. but listen to her traumatic account of what she says happened when she told mcafee she wanted out. >> when i did go over there, the conversation did not go as i expected. and -- oh, god, i feel so stupid. >> reporter: she wasn't able to go on. >> i'm sorry, i just -- >> reporter: the one time she was able to describe publicly what she says happened was in a documentary film about mcafee called "gringo." >> i told him i had a headache and he went into the other room and he brought me two pills and it tasted foul. >> reporter: she says he drugged her with that juice and then raped her. >> i only have sort of flashes of recollection, he was standing over me naked. i grabbed my clothes, i don't even remember taking them off. >> reporter: adonizio says she quickly fled belize without telling the local police. she says u.s. authorities told her they had no jurisdiction, so no charges were pursued. >> i don't know what to tell you except that i have emotional and physical scars from that experience. >> allison adonizio, a madwoman. >> reporter: a madwoman. >> a madwoman. >> reporter: well, she claims that you raped her. >> well, she can claim whatever she likes. never had sex with her, certainly never raped her. she seemed rational. she was not. >> i find it rather ironic that so i think that i'm pretty strong, considering everything that i've had to go through. >> reporter: then, in april of 2012, mcafee was about to have trouble with the law for an entirely different reason. >> there was a belief he was manufacturing illicit drugs in the compound because of all the different criminal elements that were there. it's very unusual that you would be doing research into plants and you need so many people to protect you. >> reporter: belize's gang suppression unit raided his lab, they say on suspicion he was making meth. no drugs were found. >> police! >> reporter: mcafee claims the government was harassing him because he wouldn't pay bribes. >> i was on the verge of something. when i refused to pay an extortion for $2 million. and a week later the gang suppression unit destroyed my lab. >> reporter: mcafee abandoned the jungle, and moved back to ambergris caye. but trouble followed. among his neighbors was this man, greg faull, a builder who came from central florida to central america. >> this is the house in belize. took him about seven years to build it. >> reporter: greg's mother eileen keeney says her son wanted a peaceful retirement in the caribbean but when she came to visit him a few months later, she says it was anything but peaceful. >> greg was not happy with him, and he had had some issues with mcafee. >> reporter: keeney says greg was disgusted by what mcafee had brought back from the jungle. that harem of women, the armed guards, and especially the swarm of dogs that constantly menaced passersby. >> he said, now, we're going to be walking past mcafee's house and there's going to be dogs there. now, they're usually fenced up, but he says i just want to warn home to florida, she had no clue what was ahead. two days later, she received an unfathomable phone call from her daughter. >> and then she told me greg's been murdered, and i let out this blood-curdling scream. >> reporter: a brutal beachside murder. was the eccentric millionaire involved? 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>> reporter: why did you go on the run? >> because if i didn't go on the run i'd be a dead man now. >> reporter: mcafee claims that after he refused to pay bribes, the belize government was out to get him, and the poisoning of his dogs and the murder of faull was somehow just part of that sinister plot. >> if you think they do not do this, then you are seriously naive and again i want to talk to the audience. please, people, even in television you see this happening constantly, all right. and some part of tha is probably true. >> that allegation that he makes, that the government killed his dogs, and the government killed faull, because he wouldn't pay bribes. its utter nonsense. >> reporter: the belizean government wouldn't comment on mcafee's accusations, but many, including the prime minister, called him crazy. >> it strikes me that he's extremely paranoid. in fact, i would go so far as to say bonkers. >> reporter: but bonkers or not, belize couldn't catch him. that's when i started on his trail. >> abc news' matt gutman is in belize with the latest. >> from just outside john mcafee's compound, its owner this morning is on the run. were you guys scared? >> yeah. this is isla bonita. this is paradise. things like this don't happen around here. >> reporter: three weeks underground, all the while calling in to u.s. journalists. >> john mcafee is joining us now by telephone. >> my life has become a little more intense. >> reporter: including me. you' custody they are going to assassinate you? >> absolutely. >> reporter: why were you contacting journalists while you were on the run? seems like a bad idea if you're trying to stay hidden. >> no, it was a really good idea. as long as the world was paying attention they couldn't actually shoot me in the street. >> that story continues to get even more strange by the hour. >> reporter: strange indeed. he finally surfaced across the border in guatemala. >> thank god i am in a place where there is some sanity. >> reporter: where we met face to face for the first time. how have you been? >> really good since i got here. >> reporter: he told me his great escape involved everything from burying himself in the sand, to a series of elaborate disguises. >> and i had a cane, and i was walking like this, and i had my jaws stuffed with toilet paper. >> reporter: he was hoping for political asylum. but instead, just a few hours later -- >> john, where are you going?? >> to jail. >> reporter: vice tv filmed him being arrested, as guatemala prepared to deport him back to belize to face questioning. >> his attorney has been arguing all along that any move for mcafee back to belize could risk his life. >> reporter: but before they could put him on a plane, mcafee collapsed. an ambulance rushed him to the hospital with a media horde following behind. but miraculously, mcafee opened his eyes and asked the nurses not to undress him in front of the cameras. >> not in front of the press, please. >> reporter: you faked a heart attack. >> sure, i faked it, what would you have done? >> reporter: the whole charade lasted just long enough to allow his lawyer to file an appeal. >> john mcafee has been granted a stay of deportation to belize. >> reporter: mcafee outfoxed belize, again. in the meantime, mcafee will have to wait in this lockup full of south american migrants until the high court here can decide his fate. from messages to the world. >> i apologize for the format of this conference. our intent is to return to america if at all possible. >> reporter: and lo and behold, that's exactly what happened. >> there's nothing i can say, i don't know what i'm doing, i'm going to miami. >> reporter: guatemala authorities deported mcafee to miami. >> i had no choice. they put me on an airplane, i am here. >> reporter: there, he escaped reporters in this van. i was again able to run him down, and a little while later we sat down at his hotel. how would you characterize the past month, or couple of months? >> more of an adventure than i would normally like. i've got nothing now. >> reporter: what does nothing mean? >> i've got a pair of clothes, some shoes, a friend dropped off some cash. >> reporter: a friend dropped off cash? can we see it?? >> sure. brand new. really nice, in fact i thought it has to be counterfeit, but it was not. spoke that night, you had no idea what you were going to do? >> no, absolutely not. none. i let the universe unveil its plan. >> reporter: the universe led mcafee here to this miami restaurant, where he crossed paths with his future wife. you met in miami, right? >> yeah, that first night. >> the day after he was deported. >> reporter: janice was a prostitute at the time. >> it was, i don't know how to say it, magical. because he saw the hurt that was there. he saw the human in me, you know what i'm saying? but he thought i was worthy enough of a second chance. >> reporter: is it strange for you to have found love in your late 60s, early 70s? >> you know what? i instantly saw in janice what i had been looking for my entire life. >> reporter: but as mcafee was starting out on that new life -- >> yes, i was outraged. i was angry. >> reporter: eileen keeney still wanted to make him pay for what she believed were the sins of hi >> i have a folder here of all the letters and correspondence that we had with officials in the government. senator nelson, u.s. embassy, belize. >> reporter: she did everything a grieving mother could do to get answers, and justice, for the death of her son. >> i can't say it brought much in the way of results. >> reporter: but now she's got newfound hope, thanks to new allegations against mcafee. you found the smoke to the fire of the greg faull murder. >> yes, i did. >> reporter: did a documentary filmmaker make the case that the police couldn't? when "20/20" continues. life. ...oney so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine. i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. breo won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. to improve breathing for a full 24 hours. breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop breo and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. do not take breo more than prescribed. see your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. ask your doctor if 24-hour breo could be a missing piece for you. learn more about better breathing at mybreo.com. we're out of diapers gneed anything else?. peas! and paper towels and soap! got it. get everyday low prices on everyday essentials, targetrun and done. discover card. hooh, you're real?? 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>> believe me, it's a [ bleep ] real gun. >> reporter: do you have a fascination with guns? >> i have no fascination with guns. i have a fascination with survival. >> reporter: when you held that gun up to your head in that picture, were you thinking about your father, who took his own life? >> oh, christ almighty, my friend, are you losing your mind? >> are you? >> no. >> reporter: mcafee and his wife claim that for the past four years they've been followed whereever they go. >> we had been chased for days, and you could see the same cars and trucks over, and over, and over. >> reporter: are you paranoid? >> if i we >> he makes up a lot of preposterous statements. >> reporter: paranoia or not, there's no doubt at all that filmmaker nanette burstein has been hot on his trail. when her film "gringo" was released last year it caused shockwaves, thanks to interviews with mcafee's ex-employees who talk about his bizarre activities. when it specifically comes to faull's murder -- you think found the smoke to the fire of the greg faull murder. >> yes, i did. >> reporter: this man, mcafee's beachfront caretaker named cassian, alleges his boss paid to have it done. >> it starts the night the dogs were poisoned. the following morning, sometime around 9:00, john calls me. he said, take this money, $5,000, and go put it in this guy's account. >> reporter: cassian says the man who got that money called him late the night of the murder to come pick him up. >> i saw him coming out of the bushes. it was like 600 feet from greg's house. then i realized that this $5,000 was for him to do that. >> to do to kill the guy. >> reporter: the supposed killer denied both cassian's story, and that he killed faull, but it seems like a damning accusation. >> there was some very convincing testimony, very convincing evidence that i had not seen before that makes me believe that there could be an investigation reopened. >> reporter: this documentary has brought what appears to be new evidence -- [ laughter ] mcafee laughs it off. >> everyone who went on tv called me, and said they offered me $12,000, i said take it. >> reporter: mcafee accuses burstein of paying cassian and others in the film to tell lies. >> he got $12,000, but he was smart enough to make up a story that no one would believe except nanette because she is the most naive woman i have ever met. >> reporter: mcafee posted videos online in which cassian, and others, take back what they said. >> john had nothing to do with that murder. what i told you, nanette, was a fabrication to earn what you offered to pay me. >> reporter: those are some serious accusations. >> they are. >> reporter: burstein denies paying for any interviews, though she says she did pay what she calls a nominal fee for some photos. she says mcafee was the only one who paid for a story, pressuring cassian to recant. >> i called him and said, listen, why did you do this, and he said someone showed up at my house that works for john, and they offered me thousands of dollars to say this. >> people in belize understand why cassian and the others have to say that they made it all up, because their lives could possibly be in danger. >> reporter: both cassian and mcafee deny that he was paid off to change his story. >> let me make this perfectly clear, iad you are asking the most ridiculous things. >> reporter: you have to admit that it's not ridiculous that nine of your dogs, your beloved dogs, are poisoned. >> by the government -- >> reporter: that would make a man that loves animals absolutely irate. >> right, now, if i -- >> reporter: it would be enough to make a man, who loves his dogs, willing to kill, some would say. >> does this man look like he would be stupid enough to kill whoever was responsible? 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>> i hope to get at least ten minutes that i can talk about the most serious problem in the world which is cyber security. we're living in 1984. our freedoms are being restricted. our security is being eroded, and we have no more privacy. if we lose privacy, we lose civilization and we will certainly lose our humanity. >> reporter: and mcafee version 2.0 isn't just living in seclusion in tennessee. he's taking his cyber security message on the road. do you know what you're going to talk about on larry king? >> not a clue. >> reporter: on this day, he's in new york city, a guest on larry king's show on the russia today network. >> john joins us from new york. >> they could've taken the plans for the nuclear bomber. we're being spied on by our government. duh. >> reporter: his dire predictions find a home on cable talk shows and also at mainstream cyber tech conferences. >> there will come one day, when simultaneously, everybody's wallet is emptied. i was invited, no idea why, to speak to the chinese national security conference, largest in the world, 7,000 people, i got an ovation. >> reporter: mcafee says speeches like this fetch about $25,000. and last year mcafee took his public persona to new heights. remember this guy? 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>> reporter: you were in the back seat of that police cruiser raving. >> you still have stuff to do with that computer virus deal? >> well, i'm sort of the god of computer security. my lawyer wanted to fight it. i said, no, 48 hours in jail, i can deal. >> reporter: mcafee pleaded guilty, and since his license is still suspended, he sits in e drives. why were you prescribed xanax? what were you taking it for? >> i was not sleeping properly. i always have a lot on my mind. >> reporter: what's keeping him awake? perhaps not those questions from belize. but no matter how he's reinvented himself, he remains unpredictable. just hours after we said good-bye to him, a new mcafee health scare, and this time he wasn't faking. his appendix had burst and he landed in the hospital, texting me this picture. once on the mend, mcafee turned on me again, texting me, "in the end, you proved no better than what one would expect from lowlife mainstream media." meanwhile, back in belize, echoes of mcafee's infamy remain. at the site of his old property, there's now a watering hole fittingly called, "john's escape." >> i can't say i've given up on my hopes for justice. >> reporter: but eileen keeney is confident that "john's >> maybe i just have faith that i believe that god has a way of taking care of people like him. >> we should note, greg faull's daughter has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against him. and a movie is being made, working title," king of the jungle". and next week, my special "20/20" on what some are calling digital addiction. people that can barely survive without social media. what can help them kick it? 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