McAfee Founder Says Belize Framing Him For Murder

Millionaire John McAfee, who founded the eponymous antivirus vendor -- since bought by Intel -- says hes being framed by Belizean authorities in a murder case and is now on the run.

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Pioneering antivirus developer John McAfee is now a prime suspect in a murder investigation in Belize, where he remains at large.
Police said that the body of McAfees 52-year-old neighbor, U.S. national Gregory Viant Faull, was discovered Sunday in San Pedro Town, located on the Belize island of Ambergris Caye. His housekeeper ... arrived at Mr. Faulls home where she found him in a motionless state lying in a pool of blood, said Belizean police press officer Raphael Martinez,
reported
7 News Belize. The police were called and the scene was processed -- where one 9mm expended shell was recovered. The body has an apparent gunshot wound to the back of the head. Police said Faulls laptop and iPhone were missing.
After the murder, police said they searched McAfees residence and confiscated numerous weapons, but didnt find McAfee himself. Thats because McAfee, a dual American and British citizen who relocated to Belize in 2008, is on the run. Hed seen the police coming Sunday and so buried himself in the sand, shielding his face with cardboard so he could breathe. It was extraordinarily uncomfortable, he
told
Wired
Monday. But they will kill me if they find me.
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This isnt McAfees first brush with Belizean authorities. On April 30, 2012, McAfee was
arrested by police in Belize
during a search of his property for drugs and unlicensed firearms. Police later dropped the charges, which McAfee said amounted to a shakedown.
But according to a police press release,
reported
The San Pedro Sun
, officers found that McAfee was running what he claimed was an antibiotic manufacturing operation, for which hes not licensed. Officers removed samples of the antibiotics for testing. During the raid, police also found 10 firearms, including two 9mm pistols, one of which was unlicensed. But according to
Wired
reporter Joshua Davis, McAfee says both of his 9mm guns were confiscated by the police during the April raid.
McAfee, who told Davis hes innocent and knows nothing about the murder, claims that the government is trying to kill him, after having poisoned his dogs, which were the subject of neighbors complaints. The coast guard dropped off a contingent of black-suited thugs at 10:30 tonight at the dock next door, McAfee told Davis via email Friday. They dispersed on the beach. A half hour later all of my dogs had been poisoned. Mellow, Lucky, Dipsy, and Guerrero have already died.
Is McAfee now being framed for Faulls murder? Mark Vidal, who heads the Belize Police Departments anti-gang unit, told
Wired
that there was absolutely no truth to such allegations. This guy amazes me every day. We dont have anything personal against Mr. McAfee. There is no need for us to poison dogs, he said.
McAfee founded the antivirus firm McAfee Associates in 1987, pioneering the practice of distributing antivirus software as shareware. The company, which was later renamed Network Associates, and then McAfee, was
bought by chipmaker Intel
in 2010 for $7.68 billion.
A 2010
profile
in
Fast Company
suggests that McAfee had been moving his assets to Belize to protect them against potential claims stemming from five civil lawsuits that he said had been filed against him. One of those lawsuits resulted from a 2009
aerotrekking
accident involving his 22-year-old nephew, Joel Gordon Bitow, who died while flying through a desert canyon with a passenger. Bitow had allegedly been hired by McAfee to run his flight school, even though Bitow wasnt a fully licensed pilot.
McAfees behavior sometimes appears to verge toward eccentricity, if not paranoia. Earlier this year,
McAfee told
Mensa Bulletin
that as the worlds first commercial antivirus software developer, he was regularly attacked by hackers trying to make their name, and that as a result he never purchased computer equipment himself, regularly employed pseudonyms, and changed his IP address multiple times per day.
Gizmodo last week
reported
that McAfees behavior has become increasingly erratic, and by his own admission he had begun associating with some of the most notorious gangsters in Belize.
Since McAfees relocation to Belize, hes reportedly been researching
MMDV
, a psychoactive drug that has stimulant properties.

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