Hunt. Everything just seemed like fiction, it didnt seem real. He may have eluded the police, but he didnt elude us. So neither you nor anyone 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 happened. Im lester holt. Get ready for some serious heart of darkness [ bleep ] here. And this is dateline. Tonight, Keith Morrison with the fugitive millionaire. Reporter an american murdered in a tropical paradise, while a famous and wealthy man is on the run. Im trying to delay my imminent capture. Reporter why was he hiding . He is bonkers, in my view, without a doubt. Reporter the story is a strange brew of dogs, guns and girls. Teenage girls. I was ready to shoot him, and for some reason i missed. Reporter an interconnected web with one man at its center. John is smart. He knows what hes doioing. Reporter tonights case will take us from the hightech world of Silicon Valley to the jungles central america. And finally to a small town in alabama. Get ready for some serious heart of darkness [ bleep ] here. Reporter heart of darkness . Oh yes. And a wildly strange tale about a highflying business tycoon named john mcafee and the bizarre chain of events that would make him the focus of an International Manhunt. Theres little doubt you know the name, mcafee, even if you dont recognize his face. Thats because youve probably had Antivirus Software on your computer at one time or another. In the past three weeks weve seen five new viruses. Reporter back in the 80s 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 a 100 million when it was really something to make 100 million. Reporter but faber knew that 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 find out about. Reporter 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 then64yearold made a fascinating case study. Well, 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. Reporter and he did, whenever he perceived an opportunity to make buck. Water taxis, ultralights. 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 fairly unique pharmaceuticals. Reporter with a beach home on an island off the coast called Ambergris Caye, and a jungle compound on the mainland 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 had invited me over to his home. Its on the water, and it was very dark. And then we pulled into his home, which was lit up. 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 is your villain in some ways. He didnt turn to me and say, hello, mr. Faber. But it almost had that feel to it. It was unlike anything ive sort of ive ever kind of experienced. Reporter david faber, here to meet a man who took business risks, had caught a glimpse of another mcafee. I think he likes drama. He likes intense experiences. Reporter joshua davis met that other mcafee in 2012. Davis, a contributing editor at wired magazine, and onetime got to know mcafee after he learned that Belizean Police had raided the millionaires mainland compound looking for Illegal Drugs. I heard about this raid on april 30th when the Belizean Police force burst into his compound in the jungle. And that struck me as extraordinary. Reporter as it turned out, the police did not find any Illegal Drugs at mcafees compound in that raid, though the millionaire was charged with having an unlicensed gun. The fact that police even suspected mcafee of making drugs was intriguing. Mcafee had been an outspoken teetotaler ever since kicking a drug habit back in the 80s, so davis went to belize to investigate. It was there, said davis, that mcafee told him that the belizean government 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 sicked the gsu on him. Reporter to which the belizean government replied, nonsense. They raided him because they didnt know what was going on. He was heavily armed. 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. Reporter davis went to carmelita, the tiny town nearest to 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. What he said to his friends was, my fragile connection with Polite Society has been severed. Reporter after that raid mcafee moved back to his house on Ambergris Caye, where davis reported he surrounded himself with guard dogs, armed men and several teenaged 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 quickie, and then he brought one of his girls out to confirm the point. She said, yep, thats true. Reporter mcafee was 67, living a schoolboys dream, albeit, a rather heavily armed schoolboy. Davis was soon convinced that the man who once 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 wesson. 38 special strapped to his chest in a holster. He takes the gun out. He opens the chamber. Theres six bullets in. He drops them out. He takes one of the bullets and he chambers it, closes it, spins the cylinder and he puts it to his head. And im like, john, we dont have to do this. And 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 then he pulls it a sixth time and nothing happens. He says, you have missed something about reality. And i say, oh, its a trick. And 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. Reporter paranoid eccentrics, make good stories, but rarely make good neighbors. The armed guards and snarling dogs were an aggravation to 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. Darkness was about to fall on this sunny stretch of paradise. When we come back there was blood all over the floor. An International Man hunt was about to fascinate the world. 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The dogs did bite a few people. I mean, we had one group of tourists leave early because of the dog situation. Reporter shane and Brittany Mccann are Property Managers on Ambergris Caye. And like a lot of the 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. Reporter jeff speigel and his wife vivian yu say customers walking to their restaurant just down the beach from mcafees house had to first get past mcafees dogs and guards. And if youre a tourist walking up and down the beach at night and somebody shines a maglight flashlight in your face, while shouldering a shotgun, it can be disconcerting. Reporter 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, talk, and close it down. Reporter 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, and the first time he walked up the bar with moe, you know, beach bar, a guy with a tommy bahama tshirt, board shorts, and a parrot on his shoulder. And i turned him and said, you realize, greg, that youve become that guy. Reporter the happygolucky guy, but oh those dogs. Greg faull had himself been bitten. A profound dislike for john mcafee followed. A couple times, and you know john was out there and greg was yelling at him, keep your dogs inside the fence, and just, you know, like, we have tourists here. I mean, theyre biting people. Reporter it all came to a head on the night of november 9th, 2012, a friday. Thats when four 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. Reporter 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, you know, could have slipped and fell on the tile. Reporter 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, yeah. Reporter police soon determined that greg faull had been killed with a single shot to the back of the head, execution style. And there was one oddly horrifying detail the position of greg faulls tshirt. It was pulled up over, like in a hockey move or something, where you pull the center up over you head like that. It was all the way behind his neck, but his shirt was still on. It was just the center pulled up over. Reporter as he stood there looking at his friends corpse, he was struck by the fact that, in spite of the obvious violence, there seemed to be no sign a robbery or even any struggle anywhere in the house. I just found it very odd that someone could subdue somebody like greg, a guy that can freedive 50 feet for a conch at 52 years old, exmilitary. How could you just subdue somebody like that . Reporter shane figured greg, given half a chance, would have put up a fight. That was also the first thing art faull, gregs father, thought when he got the news in jacksonville, florida. I yelled, i said, no, it cant possibly happen, not greg. You know . Because nobody could, i dont think, anyone could have overpowered greg with if hed of had a chance, you know . I suspect that he just never had a chance. Reporter 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. Trouble was they couldnt find him. He had 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. Reporter 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 led us into his layer where the stories only get stranger. You try fod shoot him . I also tried to kwut his throat, but he just leaned against the wall and said, do it. When taitdateline continues. Or their family, see if youre eligible to get an Auto Insurance quote. When you fall in love, everything is brighter, bolder more intense new revlon ultra hd™ lipstick Gel Technology delivers instant, truecolor clarity. With a smooth, weightless feel revlon. Love is on. Even ragu users chose prego homestyle alfredo over ragu classic alfredo. Prego alfredo . why cant everything i try be this great . 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Reporter mcafee told davis that he had a young woman with him. Sam is quite the soldier. Samantha, she has been loyally with me for the last couple of months. Reporter he insisted he knew nothing whatever about his neighbors murder. I have to ask you this point blank did you kill him . No sir, no sir. Thats not even funny. Okay. Reporter not only did he deny committing the murder, he proposed an astonishng idea that 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, the government has finally decided to off me, and they got the wrong white man. So, he says, the last thing im going to do is turn myself into the police, because theyll kill me. Reporter kill him . Yes, he truly believed that the belizian Police Wanted to get rid of him. Rub him out. Do him in. Im trying to delay my imminent capture. Reporter armed with a laptop, a cell phone, and a flair for the dramatic, mcafee tantalized the press and taunted the police with clues that he was still on Ambergris Caye. This is a regular occurrence. Apparently, there are police in there. Armed police, with a rifle, and theyre looking through the basis, or have been ever since the beginning of this. I dont think theres any expectation really that hes going to be here, but theyre looking. Can you speak about this . Though the police admitted they had no other suspects, john mcafees classification was downgraded to the less ominous sounding person of interest. We still think hes here in belize. And we believe that he will come in. Reporter this is Police Spokesman raphael martinez. We believe that he will come in. Reporter and if you find him youll arrest him . We will detain him, and we will ask him some questions. Reporter but undermanned and underfunded, the Belizean Police force seemed illequipped to