Hitch Hiker

John McAfee - founder of that very antivirus on your computer - was so rich he built a $100,000,000 fortress in the Belize jungle, guarded by his own private army. But when the neighbour next door turned up with a bullet in his head, the man whose name meant “protection” ran into the jungle. Nine years later they found him hanging in a prison cell, hours after a court agreed to send him to the US In the video below he talks straight to the camera the way he always did - calm, grinning, a little too calm. In 1987 he built the first antivirus people actually paid for, and by the early ’90s it ran on the computers of two out of every three big companies on earth. His name was a promise: install me, and nothing can touch you. Then he cashed out, disappeared into Belize, and became something else entirely Out there the dogs barked all night, and an American neighbour named Gregory Faull kept complaining about them. On November 11, 2012, Faull was found dead on his own floor - a single bullet in the back of his head. Police wanted to talk to McAfee. McAfee did not wait He ran. He hid - once, he said, buried in the sand with a box over his head while they searched - disguised himself as a shabby old man, faked a heart attack to stall deportation, and crossed borders taunting the police in blog posts the whole way. He was never charged. Years later a court still ordered him to pay Faull’s family $25,000,000 for the death For nine more years he kept running - presidential runs, crypto, a life one step ahead of every government he insulted. Then Spain arrested him at an airport on American tax charges. From his cell he said it plainly, over and over: he was not suicidal, he would never kill himself, and if they ever found him hanged, it was not his own hand. He had it tattooed on his skin On June 23, 2021, hours after a judge approved sending him to the United States, guards found John McAfee hanging in that cell. Spain called it suicide. His wife and his lawyer did not. The man who sold the whole world the feeling of being safe died in the one place he swore he never would, in the way he swore he never would - and left no one in the room to say which story is true