Then came the mystery his neighbor suddenly found dead. There was blood all over the floor. Everyone was crying. I said, no, it cant possibly happen. And the millionaire who was suddenly on the run, taunting authorities, launching a chase, an International Hide and seek hunt. It seems like its fiction. It doesnt seem real. He may have eluded the police, but he did not elude us. So, neither you nor anybody representing you went over to greg faulls house and shot him through the head . No, sir. Can you possibly get any inkling of the truth . You will not believe the things that happen. Get ready for some serious Heart Of Darkness [bleep] here. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Silicon valley pioneer john mcafee launched a hugely succesful Software Firm to resign. Eventually, he moved to an island off the coast of belize, saying he wants to get away from the rigid Business Rules in the states. But when his neighbor turned up dead, authorities wondered if mcafee those trying to get away with murder. Investigators were determined to question the eccentric tech giant. But first, they would have to find him. Here is Keith Morrison with the fugitive millionaire. An american murdered in a tropical paradise, while a famous and wealthy man went on the run. I was trying to delay my imminent capture. Why was he hiding . He is bonkers, in my view, without a doubt. The story is a strange brew of dogs and guns and girls, teenage girls. I was ready to shoot him, and for some reason, i missed. An interconnected web with one man at its center. John is smart. He knows what hes doing. The case will take us on the high tech world of silicon valley, to the jungles of central america, and finally, finally back stateside into the deep south. All right, get ready for some serious Heart Of Darkness [bleep] here. Heart of darkness . Oh, yes. And a wildly strange tale about a high Flying Business Tycoon named john mcafee, and the Bizarre Chain Of Events that would make him the focus of an International Man hunt. There is little doubt you know the name mcafee, even if you dont recognize his face. Thats because you probably had Antivirus Software on your computer at one time or another. For the past three weeks, weve seen five new viruses. Back in the eighties, it was the visionary john mcafee who recognized the threat posed by invisible Computer Viruses and made a fortune by devising defenses to stop them. David faber is a Business Reporter for cnbc. He made 100 Million Dollars when it was really something to make 100 Million Dollars. But faber knew mcafee lost most of that money in the real estate bust. This is called snake alley for obvious reasons, anyway, that i hope we dont fight and about. It was 2009, faber was making a documentary about boom and bust. He found mcafee at his new adopted home in belize. And the buff and charismatic then 64yearold made a fascinating case study. My life has turned around 180 degrees down here. I mentioned the freedom here. There are virtually no regulations on business. A lot of it was, belize is a paradise for people like me, because i can do anything i want. There are no laws. Intellectual property, nobody cares. I can start anything. And he did. Whenever he perceived an opportunity to make a buck, water taxis, ultra lights. But his pride and joy, mcafee told faber, was the creation of a special lab in which he planned to make new medicines from jungle plants. Hopefully, we will be in production of some very unique pharmaceuticals. With a beach arm on the island off the coast called Ambergris Caye and the Jungle Compound near the town of carmelita, john mcafee could still afford to live large and make an impression. I remember the night i arrived in belize. He invited me over to his home. And i walked in, and he was playing the piano. And it did have the feel of almost being in a bond movie, and this was your villain, in some ways. He didnt turn to me and say, hello, mr. Faber, but it almost had that feel to it. I think he likes drama. I think he likes intense experiences. Joshua davis is a Contributing Editor of wired magazine, and one time nbc news consultant. He got to know mcafee after he learned that Belizian Police had rated the millionaires mainland compound, looking for Illegal Drugs. I heard about this raid on april 30th, when the Belizian Police force burst into his compound in the jungle, and that struck me as extraordinary. As it turned out, the police did not find any Illegal Drugs in mcafees compound in that raid, Though Mcafee was charged with having an unlicensed gun. The fact the police even suspected mcafee of making drugs was intriguing. Mcafee had been an outspoken teetotaller since kicking a drug habit back in 1980. So, davis went to belize to investigate. It was there, said davis, mcafee told him the belizian was seriously corrupt and the governments paramilitary gang suppression unit, or gsu, was out to get him. One of his initial explanations for why the April 30th Raid happened was that one of the local politicians had come to him and asked for a donation. He had refused, as a result, they sicced the gsu on him. To which the belizian government replied, nonsense. They raided him because they didnt know what was going on. He had this laboratory there, it was heavily guarded, he had more bodyguards than the prime minister. He had essentially a private army, and hes got a laboratory making god knows what, because he wont tell anybody. Davis went to carmelita, the tiny town nearest mcafees Jungle Compound, where townspeople told him, he said, that mcafee had gone native. As he got more involved in this small Little Village of carmelita, the way he talked started to devolve. His dress devolved. I think that the jungle and that environment started to infect him, almost like a virus. Its what he said to his friends, was my fragile connection with Polite Society has been severed. After that raid, mcafee moved back to his island house on Ambergris Caye, where davis reported he surrounded himself with guard dogs, armed men, and several teenage girls. In a country where the age of consent is 16, mcafee told davis he liked to keep those girls busy in bed. He told me that, for him, five hours is a quicky. And he brought one of his girls out to confirm the point. She said, yeah, thats true. Mcafee was 67, living a schoolboys dream, albeit a rather heavily armed schoolboy. Davis was soon convinced the man who once to billed himself as the worlds greatest Computer Security expert was now a Security Risk to himself and others. We were in his bungalow, and he had a Smith And Wesson 38 special strapped to his chest in a holster. He took the gun out, opens the chamber, theres six bullets, and he drops them out, he takes one of the bullets out and he chambers it, closes it and spins the cylinder, and he puts it to his head. And im like, john, we dont have to do this. He goes, i know we dont. And he says, your perception of reality may not be correct. And he starts pulling the trigger, click, click, click, click, click five times. And theres only six chambers. And he pulls in the sixth time and nothing happens. He says you have missed something about reality. And i say, oh, its a trick . He goes, no, its not a trick, and he opens the door, and he aims the gun at the sand and he pulls the trigger and the bullet goes off. It was a live round. Paranoid eccentrics make good stories, but rarely make good neighbors. The Armed Guards And Snarling Dogs were an aggravation to the tourists and others who had to walk past mcafees house. And by November 2012, one of john mcafees neighbors may have decided hed had enough. 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It was american expats who live along this stretch of beach who told us that the murder case that began in November 2012 and made headlines around the world began as a mundane Neighborhood Dispute about dogs, snarling, Snapping Currs who frequently roamed the beach in front of john mcafees beach home on Ambergris Caye. The barking kept the neighbors up at night, and the biting . Well, that was bad for business. The dogs did bite a few people. I mean, we got one group of tourists leave early because of the dog situation. Shane and Brittany MccannProperty Managers of Ambergris Caye. Like a lot of other american expats on the island, they knew john mcafee casually. There were guards at his house. We didnt know all that was going on. Jeff spiegel and his wife vivian yu said that customers walk into their restaurant just on the beach from mcafees house had to first get past mcafees dogs and guards. And if you are a Tourist Walking up and down the beach at night, and somebody shines a Maglite Flashlight in your face while shouldering a shotgun, it can be disconcerting. Such a harsh vibe for such a peaceful place. Not at all what greg faull expected when he moved to Ambergris Caye back in may of 2012. We got to know greg because after working for 12 hours a day, he would come up to our bar and hang out and talk and close it down. And greg faull said jeff was right out of central casting. Hed made his money in the Construction Business in florida, and here in belize, he was living out a fantasy. Greg had three birds. The first time he walked up to the bar with mo, beach bar, Caribbean Guy with a tommy bahama tshirt, board shorts, parrot on the shoulder, turned to him and said, greg, you realize youve become that guy. A happygolucky guy. But oh, those dogs. Greg faull had himself been bitten, and a profound dislike for john mcafee followed. A couple times, you know, john was out there, and greg was yelling at him. Keep dogs inside the fence, you know, we have tourists here, i mean, they are biting people. It all came to a head on the night of november 9th, 2012, a friday. Thats when 4 of john mcafees dogs were poisoned. Many on the island immediately suspected that greg did it. He told everybody that he was going to poison those dogs. You know . Everybody knew that he was going to poison the dogs. And 36 hours later, early on a sunday morning, shane mccann woke up to a ringing phone. It was greg faulls caretaker. Greg, he said, was dead. We thought heart attack. I was thinking heart attack. Im thinking he couldve slipped and fell on a tile. But no. When the mccanns and the other expats got to gregs house, it was clear this was no slip and fall. His body was there motionless. There was blood all over the floor. There was blood everywhere. Police soon determined that greg faull had been killed with a single gunshot to the back of the head, execution style. There was one oddly horrifying detail, the position of greg faulls tshirt. It was pulled over like a hockey move, or something, where you pull the center up over your head like that. It was all the way behind his neck. But his shirt was still on, it was just the center was pulled over. As he stood there looking at his friends corpse, he was struck by the fact in spite of the obvious violence, there seems to be no sign of a robbery, or even any struggle anywhere in the house. Just found it very odd somewhat could subdue somebody like greg, a guy that could freedive 50 feet for a conch at 52 years old, ex military. How could you just subdue to somebody like that . Shane figured greg, given half a chance, wouldve put up a fight. That was all the first thing art faull, gregs father, thought when he got the news in jacksonville, florida. I said, no, it cant possibly happen. Not greg. You know, he goes, i dont think anybody couldve overpowered greg if hed had a chance. You know . I suspect that he just never had a chance. Given the bad blood between greg faull and john mcafee then, the Belizian Police thought it would be a good idea to walk down the beach and have a word with the reclusive millionaire. The trouble was they couldnt find him. Hed up and disappeared. In short order, the Police Declared mcafee the primary suspect and the news flashed around the world. The Tech Millionaire is now a fugitive. A Celebrity Manhunt in the tropics . That was like catnip. So i packed my bags and booked a flight to belize. Coming up, a onetime member of mcafees harem lets us into his lair. You tried to shoot him . Uhhuh. When dateline continues. But you know what is . Myplan from verizon. vo Football Season is here. Get nfl sunday ticket from youtubetv on us. A 449 value. Plus, get a free Samsung Galaxy z flip5. Only on verizon. 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Samantha, she has been with me loyally for the past couple of months. He insisted he knew nothing whatever about his neighbors murder. Let me ask you for the record, point blank, because i dont think i did before, did you kill him . [laughs] no, sir. No, sir. Not even funny. Okay. Not only did he deny committing the murder, he proposed an astonishing idea. The bullet that killed faull had really been meant for him. The first thing i thought about was, oh, my god. Hes a white man, im a white man, someone, you know, the governments finally decided to off me. They got the wrong white man. So, he says, the last thing im going to do is turn myself into the police because they will kill me. Kill him . Yes. He truly believed the belizian