Murder Suspect John McAfee: I'm Innocent

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/threatlevel_1112_mcafee/

By Joshua Davis
Threat Level
Wired.com
11.12.12

As Belizean police combed the property of expat antivirus pioneer John 
McAfee Sunday afternoon, McAfee was closer than they could have known. 
He’d seen them coming, and says he hid — burying himself in the sand 
with a cardboard box over his head so he could breathe. “It was 
extraordinarily uncomfortable,” he says, in an exclusive interview with 
Wired. “But they will kill me if they find me.”

McAfee, 67, is the prime suspect in a murder discovered Sunday morning 
in Belize. Convinced that he’ll be killed if he’s taken into custody for 
questioning, the millionaire antivirus pioneer has gone into hiding 
somewhere in the Central American nation, where he moved in 2008 to 
retire. Starting at 10:30 this morning, Belize time, he has been calling 
to tell me his side of the story.

The homicide victim is McAfee’s neighbor, Gregory Faull, a 52-year-old 
American expatriate, who, like McAfee, lives on Ambergris Caye, an 
island off the coast of Belize. According to police, Faull was found 
face up in a pool of blood with a single gunshot wound to the back of 
his head. Authorities found a single Luger brand 9mm expended shell at 
the scene.

Asked what he knows about the shooting, McAfee said, “Nothing — other 
than I heard he had been shot.” In fact, McAfee added, he’s worried that 
whoever shot Faull may have actually been gunning for him. “I thought 
maybe they were coming for me. They mistook him for me. They got the 
wrong house,” he said. “He’s dead. They killed him. It spooked me out.”

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