The Craziest Story You've Ever Heard

oh hello there my name is John McAfee an American Tech Mogul at the center of an international murder mystery American internet Tycoon John McAfee is believed to be hiding in Biz after the murder of his neighbor John McAfee he built a fortune creating the antivirus software that protects millions of computers around the world but now he's being chased by police across a tiny country in Central America he's been running for almost a month tweeting and blogging along the way he's nuts government corruption terrorists poisoned dogs a murdered neighbor a body double and that's not even the half of it he was talking about taking over the country I started to think this guy is a mad then there was the gang of convicted criminals mcae proudly says he hired as his armed bodyguards his own private militia he told me repeatedly that he could have people hurt taken out if he wanted to everybody I hired was an ex-felon and had spent half of her life in prison it sounds like that's a recipe for disaster are you a Madman are you paranoid are you an entrepreneur all the above I do have teenage girlfriends and many at a time nothing illegal did these women really try to kill me well not all of them of course in fact you're than 50% tried to kill me zero to crazy in like 2 seconds it's always there it's watching 15 years ago I had some beautiful software and they took it over I don't know what they did it was like the time I hired that Bangkok prostitute to do my taxes while I [ __ ] my [Music] account so is maae a successful entrepreneur who went mad and killed his neighbor or is he the potential savior of America John McAfee has been described as many things eccentric Tech millionaire International fugitive presidential candidate and suspected murderer honestly John McAfee's life is one of the most fascinating and bizarre stories I've ever heard and opinion is split on whether he was a hero or the devil you see John mcae was once hailed as a Pioneer in cyber security but his life then took a series of dark and crazy turns and became a complex web of paranoia and controversy this is the tale of a man who embodied both genius and Madness a millionaire willing to break any laws he wanted and I promise you this the deeper down this rabbit hole we go the crazier things we'll get as every layer we peel back reveals an even darker mystery it's time to step into the insane world of John [Music] McAfee John McAfee was born in 1945 and grew up in an unstable home where his alcoholic father would physically abuse him and his mother and when John was just 15 years old his father took his own life John was left traumatized and went off to college to study mathematics hoping for a fresh start but this is where his own heavy drinking and drug use began as a broke college student John needed a way to make money to fund his expensive addictions and so Jon started his first small business selling magazines which helped him develop his skills as a Salesman however Jon soon realized he could make a lot more money if he was willing to break the law and so he decided to start selling a different product cocaine I used to sell drugs because if you take enough drugs the only way you can support your habit is to sell to others so um um and and for many years I did despite the drink and drugs John learned the basics of early computer programming which helped him land a job after college as a programmer at NASA's Institute for space studies where he worked on the Apollo program he then moved to Silicon Valley where his computer skills were in extremely high demand which allowed him to get several prestigious programming jobs at places like loed and Xerox however John often found corporate life very dull and so he continued using all kinds of drugs and even took LSD in the mornings on his way to work at one job his daily routine consisted of drinking a bottle of scotch and doing coke at his desk although he was eventually C and fired there was also another job where he took the psychedelic drug DMT into work with him he tried just a small amount at first but he didn't feel anything so he decided to take the entire bag as a result he was tripping so badly that he no longer knew what the function of his job was and he fled the office and hid behind a trash can needless to say he got fired from that job too luckily though all of that soon wouldn't matter as JN had a new business idea of his [Music] own in 1986 the first computer virus to affect IBM personal computers was discovered it was called brain and after looking into the virus John quickly came up with a code that could stop it from infecting the target computer I was reading think what the heck is is this and then it came me oh I know what they did I got some code that really replicates itself and as soon as I got that I got you know that's easy things I wrote a little program and that was the beginning of my it only took John a day and a half to come up with the antivirus software but that one day's work would soon change his life forever at the time very few people had even heard of a computer virus you really had to be a computer programmer to even care about it but John McAfee saw the potential for this to be a high demand regular consumer product if people learned what computer viruses were they would become afraid of those threats and once they were afraid they would surely want to protect themselves by buying the Cure so in 1987 John founded a business called McAfee Associates and began selling his product called virus scan he would start customers on a free trial of the product and then charge companies to use the full version however Jon needed to bring more attention to computer viruses in order to sell more of his product so here arranged to be interviewed on news stations to talk about it and this is where John's salesman skills really paid off JN used fear tactics to make people believe if they didn't download his antivirus software it could mean losing all of the information on their computers I see infections of small companies where every computer has become infected and the company is near collapsed from Financial loss this was enough to convince businesses that they needed to prepare for these potential threats by 1992 more than half of Fortune 100 companies had maca antivirus software on their computers and John was making millions of dollars in licensing and later that Year John would get an even bigger opportunity to profit from Fear One of the first big viruses to get a lot of mainstream media attention was dubbed Michelangelo this was a virus that was said to be lying dormant in computers and that it would wake up on March 6th Michelangelo's birthday and overwrite all your data this was the perfect virus to create a panic because until March 6th you would have no idea if you were infected so John went on the news claiming that as many as 5 million computers could already be affected by the virus but they just didn't know it yet this is the number one virus it is the number one computer threat it's real and it's going to happen on the 6th of March and thus people began to Panic by his antivirus software to protect themselves however once March 6th rolled around it turns out that only 10,000 to 20,000 computers were actually affected sales of MAA software had skyrocketed though and many people accused JN of exaggerating the virus as impact in order to sell more copies of his antivirus program but either way by 1993 he owned 67% of the antivirus Market the company was bringing in millions of dollars in annual revenue and yet John only had 20 employees and instead of looking for qualified professionals John would simply hire people he liked he would keep them in the office for days at a time with them sleeping at their desks a former employee of the company said the work environment was borderline cult-like because the employees were willing to do almost anything John asked they had a group called little foxes where they um would give points for uh having sex in different spots of the office it's fair to say it wasn't your typical company and yet because they're antivirus software was in such high demand they were making a lot of money and when JN took the company public on the stock market it brought his net worth up to $80 million but now that the company was publicly traded investors began to have a say in and how things were run they wanted to make the company into a much larger and more professional Corporation of course John did not want that so less than 2 years after the IPO Jon sold his shares of the company for $100 million and separated himself completely from the business he had started and this is where things started to get crazy [Music] now that Jon had left his antivirus company he was a multi-millionaire and had enough money to never work another day in his life but having all of this wealth made John paranoid he began to carry a gun with him everywhere and he was still taking lots of drugs which only enhanced his constant paranoia all of this led Jon towards more spiritual Pursuits in the year 2000 he bought nearly 300 acres of land in Colorado and opened a yoga and meditation center and then invited yoga students to come stay at this home for free John then went on to write several books about yoga and soon dozens of students flocked to his Yoga Center claiming that they were captivated by his personality rumors began to spread that John was actually running a cult it was during this time that John became obsessed with a new hobby that he called aot trekking which is where you fly an ultra light aircraft low to the ground over a rugged terrain which is extremely dangerous but John thrived on doing dangerous things he soon began creating websites and ads to get other people interested in aerot trekking and he even started a company that offered aerot treking flights across the New Mexico desert however this ended in tragedy you see John trained his 22-year-old nephew to be one of the pilots but in 2006 his nephew crashed his plane into a remote Canyon in Arizona and was killed there was also a passenger on board named Robert who died as well and since John owned the aerot trekking company Robert's family wanted to sue Jon for $5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit now at this point paying $5 million would have been very doable for Jon but of course he certainly didn't want to pay and in truth this wasn't the first lawsuit someone had filed against him johon believed that his wealth made him a Target so instead of facing the courts John decided to flee to the country of bise where his lawsuits in the United States would no longer be valid before he left John made a big show of selling his assets including his Colorado Yoga Retreat he invited news crews to broadcast the auction of his airplanes boats and Estates and he told the reporters that he had lost most of his fortune he was basically trying to convince the world he was going broke it was only in later years John admitted that was a lie he was just trying to stop people suing him it's nobody's business so the numbers that I throw out or numbers that I just randomly feel like thr out if the number four looks good today I'll say we're 4 million you know it's meaningless believe nothing I say when it comes to my [Music] work John moved to Biz and had the opportunity to retire and sell down in a tropical Paradise he considered it the perfect society as if you had enough money in B you could buy anything or anyone who you wanted and one of the first things John did was byy guns and computers for the local police presumably to get them on side John then spent the first few months snorkeling and relaxing on the beach with the many different girls he was simultaneously dating however John was always looking for his next business venture and that would begin when he met a microbiologist from Harvard named Allison Adano Allison was visiting Biz because she had heard about local healers using plant medicine these plants contained a chemical which stops bacteria from spreading and Allison was hoping to make a herbal antibiotic out of these plants when Allison met John in bise he loved the idea and offered to set up a lab in the middle of the bise jungle for them to work on creating these plant-based antibiotics it was such an exciting opportunity that Allison left behind her life in America and moved to B however very soon after the project began John started inviting press to come to B to see the lab except this was too soon Allison had nothing to show them yet so John instructed her to put water with colored dye in beakers to make it appear as though they were making progress on some revolutionary new drug even though they hadn't done anything yet but John beli the medeor attention would help get more investors meanwhile Jon hired over 100 locals to build a huge house for him and at first the ballian locals absolutely loved Jon because he paid $45 per day even though the average was just $25 however if it soon became clear that johon was gaining more and more control over the local community Jon started hiring bodyguards with criminal records who were armed with guns and wearing sunglasses and camouflage uniforms like they were in the military John called them his Hitmen and they were basically his own private Army everybody I hired was an ex-felon and had spent half of her life in prison John then began setting an 800 p.m curfew for the local Village of carita by 9:00 p.m. his group of bodyguards would drive through the town checking for anyone who disobeyed him now John claimed he was doing this to clean up the town which was rampant with crime but he never explained what he was doing and many locals were left terrified as well as the tourists who would unknowingly be walking on the beaches at night only to see Jon walking the streets with a gun and armed guards it felt like Jon had basically taken over the small village of carmalita Jon also had several vicious guard dogs that would roam freely on the beach and there were multiple incidents of the dogs biting and attacking people the neighbors would try to report these attacks to the police but no official action was ever taken many locals suspected this was due to the police being paid off by Jon as Jon had built them a police station and supplied them with weapons Allison eventually decided that this was all too much for her he talked about taking over the ballian government he would talk about his Hitmen he would talk about how he could have people hurt or killed and um you know honestly I was I was scared so Alison confronted Jon about wanting to go home and abandon their jungle VAP project according to Allison during this conversation she said she had a headache so John gave her two pills and a cup of orange juice soon after Allison passed out this is the next thing she remembers he was standing over me naked and I woke up the next morning and I was sick I was dry heaving and I was dizzy and I grab my clothes I don't even remember taking them off Allison claims John drugged and assaulted her and when she returned to the United States she immediately contacted the authorities however the US authorities had no jurisdiction in belies so the case never went any further and John denies her story entirely Alison Adano a mad woman well she can claim whatever she likes never had sex with her certainly never raped her she seemed rational she was not as for the lab they'd been running in the jungle that would have ually get raided by bellian authorities over suspicion JN had been making meth there they did find several chemicals they couldn't even identify but nothing illegal and no charges were filed however things would soon get darker when John McAfee would find himself accused of [Music] murder John was paranoid of anyone trying to rob or kill him which is why he paid for so much protection I have an officer living on my compound it makes me feel safe makes me feel safer to know that all the criminals that might want to rob me know there's a policeman living there yet somehow despite all of this security someone managed to break into Jon's house and steal from him words spread around the local community and John heard that the robbery was committed by a man named David Middleton instead of reporting it to the police it's alleged that John py group of SP thousands of dollars to kidnap David from his home and make an example of him one morning CH McAfee called me and he said I need to chastise this guy to teach him a little respect so Jan asked me if I could bring three guys up here three bad mean ass looking guy to slap him up a little and tell him be careful it's claimed they beat and tased David then dropped him off in the middle of the street in front of multiple Witnesses David went to the hospital but the beating had been so brutal that he slipped into a coma and died a few days later even though it was widely believed Jon was behind the attack the police did nothing however pretty soon after one of Jon's neighbors an American named Greg fall wanted to try and stand up to JN Greg had come to biz for a peaceful retirement and he hated how Jon allowed his dogs to run freely on the beach and attack people greed confronted Jon several times about how aggressive his dogs were and how they bitten people just trying to walk along the beach eventually Greg had had enough and he threatened to poison the dogs if John didn't do anything to control them shortly after this Jon's dogs were poisoned since this happened so soon after the confrontation with Greg Jon felt that only one person could be responsible when someone says they're going to poison your dogs and the following day your dogs get poisoned I don't think there's too many people that wouldn't have a thought in their mind about killing that person the very next day Greg fall was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head and thus John became the prime suspect in Greg Fall's murder and went on the Run John MFE news from B John McAfee who's been on John mcaf is a person of interest American Tech Mogul at the center of an international murder mystery mcafe is being hunted for questioning in the murder of his neighbor but of course JN had a very different story let me make this perfectly clear I had nothing to do with the murder of Gregory Fall John claimed that in fact he had hacked the bise government and had proof of intense corruption as a result the bise government had been trying to kill him but shot his neighbor by mistake and that's why John fled he's dead yeah they killed him um so it It sped me out when I heard oh my God they were coming from me they came for me they got the wrong house now where this gets even Messier is that in 2016 Showtime released a documentary about this called Gringo the dangerous life of John McAfee and in that several former employees of Jon's gave interviews where they openly talk about Jon paying for Hitmen and make it seem pretty clearcut that John was responsible for the murder of Greg fall but after this some of those exact same employees appeared on John McAfee's YouTube channel saying that Showtime had paid them to say those statements and that they were untrue so now those same people were claiming John was innocent he would never ever hire or kill someone of course John could be paying them and either way they're clearly unreliable sources if they're willing to claim two entirely different stories so it's all a little blurry and even Jon's girlfriend at the time wasn't sure when anyone asked me do you think John killed his neighbor my response is I don't know so whilst it's all extremely suspicious there were never any charges so we can't say definitively what happened the night of Greg Fall's murder what we do know is that as soon as John heard that the police wanted to question him as a suspecting Greg's death he immediately went on the run it was time for him to leave Biz and never look back John mcafe is a wanted man the one Silicon Valley Golden Boy is now in hiding somewhere in Central [Music] America John was very deliberate in his efforts to avoid the police he started wearing disguises dyed his hair and dressed like an old man he'd walk around with a walking stick and even pretend he'd had a stroke but instead of going on the run in secret John immediately invited two reporters from Vice news to be with him while he was on the Run he felt this would help him get his side of the story across and maybe provide some extra protection he also just thought it would be entertaining content and sure enough this footage would later become the Netflix documentary called Running With the Devil the wild world of John mcaf John explained to the reporters his view that this was all one big setup by the bellian government to put him in jail and assassinate him and so after hiding in a sand bunker for hours John managed to escape to the neighboring country of Guatemala by illegally crossing the border by boats once he was out of bise John thought he was going to be safe but then something quite ridiculous happened the reporters from Vice he'd invited to join him on the Run uploaded their interview with John to the internet however this included a photo they takeen which contain their exact GPS location in the metadata metadata gives the file authenticity but a part of that metad dat is also geolocations the Geo data was on the image and the gave GPS coordinates so John was supposed to be hiding in Guatemala and yet now the entire world knew the exact coordinates of where he was it didn't take long for the authorities to find him in fact all kinds of people showed up guys submachine guns the literal equivalent of the FBI here's interpole here's a guy with a DEA jacket on Dr surrounded and so he did what anyone would do in that situation he uh started playing the flute from here since the vice reporters were there with John they captured video footage of his arrest John where are you going to jail since John was in Guatemala legally interpo wanted to send Jon back to bise for questioning about Greg's death however Jon's lawyer informed him that he could file an appeal at 3:00 p.m. that was hours away so Jon somehow needed to buy a little more time so JN faked a heart attack you faked the heart attack sure I faked it what would you have done John was rushed to hospital and then at once 300 p.m. rolled around JN suddenly said he was feeling much better but because the appeal was now filed they couldn't just send him back to believe so Guatemalan authorities deported him back to the United States instead which is exactly what John wanted just like that John McAfee was a free man he was still wanted in B for questioning but since he hadn't been officially charged with any crime he was able to live his life normally back in the US which led some to question had John McAfee just gotten away with [Music] murder hey guys I know some of you have been asking when my YouTube course will be ready it's been in the works for about a year now as I wanted to make sure it's the best on the market by far and the good news is it's now in the final stages so if you're interested in learning everything I know about writing videos editing videos growing a channel building a team and how to make lots of money from it then just click the course Link in the description [Music] below once John McAfee was sent back to the USA in December of 2012 it didn't take long for him to settle into his new life on literally his first day back in Miami he met a prostitute 38 years younger than him who would soon become his third wife he then started his own YouTube channel and his very first upload was called how to uninstall mcafe antivirus in the video he shows himself surrounded by women snorting bath salts and just generally acting like a madman This was meant to be a parody of what the media was making him out to be but many would argue it was pretty accurate 15 years ago I had some beautiful software and they took it over I don't know what they did it was like the time I hired that Bangkok prostitute to do my taxes while I [ __ ] my accountant it was terrible it was clear johnelle had a talent for manipulating the media and getting attention he soon started getting lots of news coverage as a security expert where he warned of the Cyber threats the US was facing in fact when you Googled him you no longer saw that he was suspected of murder he had successfully rebranded himself and he even grew a decent following on Twitter his fans loved his bold opinions and wild takes he became so popular in fact that in 2016 John McAfee decided to run for president of the United States is it official are you running for president have you filed the papers to run for president I filed the papers on Tuesday uh I'm officially running yes ma'am then in 2017 John started promoting cryptocurrencies as a way to avoid paying tax he would promote an altcoin on his Twitter and then once people invested and the price went up he'd cash out it was a pump and dump scheme and according to the Department of Justice John personally made over $2 million from this shortly after Greg Fall's family sued John McAfee for his wrongful death technically John was still wanted for questioning impes about Greg's death but because John had fled the country the criminal charges against him weren't pursued so now Greg F's family was seeking civil action using the American court system however John never responded or showed up to court this this meant that the judge decided he should pay $25 million in Damages by default John publicly responded on his Twitter to say that he had been sued dozens of times and know well over $200 million in total but he claimed he didn't have any money to give them in reality John was still a multi-millionaire but he was hiding his money in Shell companies and eventually this would all catch up with John when he picked a battle he couldn't win the IRS you see John had publicly stated that he hadn't paid any taxes in 8 years firstly he claims he simply hadn't made any income and then he also said it was for ideological reasons as he'd already paid T of millions in taxes already and felt he received nothing in return I have not paid taxes for a years I've made no secret of it I have not filed returns every year I tell the IRS I'm not filing return I have no intention of doing so come and find me of course this couldn't Last Forever Without facing the [Music] consequences before we get to the next chapter I want to help you save time and money with today's video sponsor ship station ship station integrates everywhere you sell online including Amazon Etsy eBay Shopify and more ship station then makes it easy to automate shipping tasks and manage your business's orders in one simple dashboard you can print shipping labels compare rates organize every shipment 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was once again on the run but this time from American authorities however that didn't stop him from running a campaign for the 2020 US Presidency they want to silence me I will not allow that I am running my campaign in Exile on this boat for the duration for almost 2 years John sailed around the world once again he wore various disguises although he would randomly just tell people who he was and even take selfies with them you're Ma I use you for my um yes for your antivirus yes ma' but on October 6th 2020 John was found and arrested by authorities in Spain in video footage of him in jail Jon tried to explain his way out of the situation but claiming he had Insider knowledge about corruption in the IRS however in June 2021 the Spanish National Court approved his extradition back to America to face his tax evasion charges John was 75 at this point and knew he would spend the rest of his life in jail and so just hours later John hanged himself in his prison cell computer software entrepreneur John maafi has been found dead in a prison in Barcelona just hours earlier a Spanish Court agreed to extradite him to the United States to face tax evasion charges however even though it was confirmed as a suicide in the autopsy John's wife Janice claims that he would never have taken his own life and instead blamed us authorities for his death John McAfee was not suicidal I spoke with him a few hours before he was found dead this Spar theories that John had been murdered especially because 2 years before his death John posted on Twitter if I suicide myself I didn't I was whacked he even got a tattoo that said whacked and started a cryptocurrency with the same name on top of that after his death there was a post on his Instagram account was simply the letter Q soon after the account was deleted spar even more conspiracy theories and in yet another twist in the Netflix documentary released after his death one of Jon's ex-girlfriends claimed he paid people to fake his death and is actually still alive although there is no evidence of this at all the documentary also had another big claim though as there's a recording of John saying that when he was younger he got sick of his father's abuse and did something about it suggesting Jon killed his own father and just made it look like a suicide and this is the problem problem there are so many wild claims and theories about John that establishing what's true is difficult if all the allegations against John are true he is responsible for the death of at least three different people and was an incredibly dangerous and violent man but on the other hand none of these were proven and many believe John was set up and is actually a hero for trying to expose corruption by the end of May I had every computer wired in the government and I'm listening I'm in your office I'm hearing everything you're saying they didn't anticipate they forgot who I was I can get inside your computer and screw with you and so that's what I did but did Jon actually have all these documents of corruption that he claimed John had promised that if he died there was a dead man switch where all the terabytes of damning information he had on government corruption would be released but so far at least nothing has come out now on this channel I never tried to take sides and instead just present the information and with this story I highly recommend looking into it more yourself to draw your own conclusions all I will say is that I think it's clear Jon was extremely smart but he was also definitely paranoid and regularly using drugs it's also clear he was good at manipulating the media which only makes it even harder to figure out the truth what's undeniable is that there are very few people with a life as insane as John McAfee and so we really can't be surprised that even after his death he's left behind a legacy of chaos as for McAfee's company it was purchased by Intel in 2011 for 7.6 billion and is now valued at around 14 billion it continues to be one of the most popular antivirus softwares and is still used by millions of people to this very day now if you enjoyed this story there is one specific video I recommend you watch next which is the insane true story of the world's biggest online Black Market Silk Road aka the most illegal business in the world just like McAfee this story is so bizarre it feels like a Hollywood movie so just click here to check it out now and I'll see you there cheers

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