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Of course he was a suspect. He'd had an escalating battle with his neighbor, who coincidentally turned up shot to death. http://gizmodo.com/5959812/john-mcafee-

• brohee 11y ago
  He was only ever a "person of interest", if they had anything material against him he'd have been officially suspect likely. And there are various citations of unnamed Belize officials, stating that he's no longer even a person of interest in that case.
  • drfuchs 11y ago
    An actual quote reported by an actual journalist who was actually there at the time and actually heard from the lips of "Marco Vidal, the head of Belize’s Gang Suppression Unit": McAfee is a “prime suspect” in Faull’s death. http://www.wired.com/2012/11/threatlevel_1112_mcafee/ http://www.wired.com/2012/11/threatlevel_1112_mcafee/
    • brohee 11y ago
      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-20315415 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-20315415 > Raphael Martinez of Belize's Ministry of National Security said no charges had been filed in the case and Mr McAfee was simply "a person of interest". > "It's too early in the investigation," he told the Associated Press. "To say he is a suspect would be a bold statement." And in 2015 "not a person of interest anymore". If they had anything tangible, why wasn't he charged?
      • sp332 11y ago
        He says the government was harassing him for bribes, shot his favorite dog, and burned his house down. Since he's already out of the country and out of their hair, they might not want to drag all that back up.
    • pnevmatico 11y ago
      Police bosses from third world countries are not the most reliable people.
• undefined0 11y ago
  It was hinted in an interview that it was his girlfriend rather than him (the same one who tried to shoot McAfee in the head). I cannot remember where I found the interview, it was somewhere on YouTube. Does anyone have a link to that?
  • notahacker 11y ago
    A journalist who was uncomfortably close to McAfee around the time it happened wrote this article which is clearly intended to leave the girlfriend as the most likely suspect (and McAfee or one of his other associates as the second most likely). http://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/ http://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/ TLDR version: mentally unstable teenage girlfriend described as repeatedly wanting people killed (including - according to both parties - shooting at McAfee at one stage) and explicit statements that she would kill people if they killed her dog or if asked to by McAfee. Neighbour who had complained about McAfee's dogs killed the day after the dogs are reportedly poisoned. Looks even more unlikely to be coincidence when McAfee later independently asserts that actually he did believe the neighbour had poisoned his dogs shortly before being murdered https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mcafee_ama/cubhb0g https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc... Reading the descriptions of some of McAfee's other activities, the only real surprise in the whole tale that it took Belize security forces so long to go after him.
    • jessaustin 11y ago
      I'll vote for McAfee if he promises to make her our First Lady. I'm tired of First Ladies who are genteel and urbane and just want to get along. It's time for a First Lady who will take charge and kick ass!