Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Page #6

And said, "John, you gotta

take care of these dogs.

And said, "John, you gotta

take care of these dogs.

They're disturbing

the neighborhood."

And John reached over

to one side

and came back

with a 12gauge shotgun,

cycled the shotgun,

says, "Get off my property

or I'll shoot your ass."

Greg came to me

and he says,

"Eddie, I got this problem

that is not going

to go away."

So I told him, "This is not

something to play with.

Go to the police.

Make a report."

Greg did put a

complaint against John's dogs.

Greg did put a

complaint against John's dogs.

And I did respond to Greg.

The Mayor says,

"I've talked to the police

to go up there

and deal with it,"

but that didn't change him.

Why would it change a man

who is buttering the police

with Tasers, with vehicle,

with guns?

Greg Faull had

had it with those dogs,

and said,

"I'm gonna poison those dogs."

A day later,

John's dogs were poisoned.

About 12 in the night,

one of the security came

and said that the dogs

is foaming through their mouth.

So he went

and he saw the dog.

And then he said, you know,

"The dogs have been poisoned."

That's what he said.

The first thing

came in his mind

was that it was his neighbor.

Greg?

Mm, Gregory Faull.

He got his shotgun.

And I said,

"What are you gonna do?"

And he said he is gonna take

the dog out of their misery.

And then he started crying.

I never saw him cry

until that day.

And, um, he went to the dogs

and he shot the dogs.

He was walking, like,

from one side of the room

to the other side.

While he was walking,

he was smoking

cigarette after cigarette,

cigarette after cigarette,

cigarette after cigarette.

He said, "I wonder

if it's Greg Faull

that poisoned my dogs."

You know?

Oh, look.

Look who's here.

Nice to see you, man.

Oh, how are you?

He left me a message

that night,

saying that, "There's somebody

in my yard."

And I said,

"Do you want me to come up?"

"No, no," he says.

"It's okay.

I just wanted you to know."

He was nervous,

that's why he called me.

He says, um,

"I don't feel good about it."

The next day,

Mr. Faull was found dead.

In the morning, early,

my nephew, Finn,

calls me and he says,

"Tio, have you heard?"

I said, "Heard what, Finn?"

He says, "Greg is dead."

I says, "Oh, sh*t."

I still can't believe it.

There's no sign

of burglary.

Nothing was missing.

The place wasn't ransacked.

It just appeared that he had

basically been executed.

And were there any

other marks on his body?

And were there any

other marks on his body?

His whole body

covered in Taser marks,

which were not necessary.

Sometimes I have visions

of what happens

when you get shot

in the head.

When you get shot

in the head.

And I just can't believe

it ever happened to my son.

Why were you looking

for John?

Well, because...

Yeah.

A murder in paradise.

Police launch

a fullscale search

for an eccentric American

tycoon, John McAfee.

Some breaking news

from Belize.

Some breaking news

from Belize.

John McAfee, who's been

on the run

John McAfee is a person

of interest

in the murder of his neighbor.

Tech mogul at the center of an

international murder mystery.

Tonight, McAfee is being hunted

for questioning

in the murder of his neighbor.

We had CNN in English,

we had CNN in Spanish,

NBC, ABC, the whole alphabet.

If you're fearing

for your safety,

why not just go in and tell them

what you don't know

about this murder?

If I am detained,

this is where people

just simply disappear.

They choke on their own vomit

or hang themselves

or are beaten to death

by fellow prisoners.

Or are beaten to death

by fellow prisoners.

John sent me a text

and said,

"We have to move."

And I went to take out money

from John's account.

$2,000.

And I took it where he was

hiding at the boat place.

Two days after

the Greg Faull thing,

John calls me and says,

"I need you to keep me safe

and get me

out of the country alive."

We went to, like,

a Chinese place,

where he started

painting his hair

and that's where

Tom took us.

I had some sleepless nights

because I'd have to get up

and move him

to another location.

Then I start

meeting journalists.

He, um,

contacted the press

'cause he said he wanted

to clear

his side of the story

and why he is on the run.

The search to find John McAfee

began right here

at the airport,

not long after I landed.

And it began

with three simple words.

"Sorry, I'm late."

A prearranged code word

to let me know

A prearranged code word

to let me know

I'd met the person who would

take me to McAfee.

And so we get in this cab

and take off on just a crazy

drive through Belize City.

It was like a bad movie.

We were doing, you know,

switchbacks and turnarounds

and then it's like,

"Get out! Get out!"

And then wehe's like,

"No, get in there!"

And it's another cab we get in.

It's not the Belize you see

in the travel pictures.

It's not the Belize you see

in the travel pictures.

You know, this is not

the pretty part.

And then eventually,

we stop in the parking lot

of a really

lowrent looking hotel.

When we finally got

to John McAfee,

he's wearing

an outlandish disguise.

Kind of like an old man

with a crippled arm,

powder in his hair

to make himself look old.

And he's walking with a cane.

John McAfee

is coming towards us.

Only it wasn't John McAfee.

It was John McAfee in really

in a really bad disguise.

In a really bad disguise.

We all knew

it was John McAfee.

But your problem is that you

really wanna talk to him,

and I'm afraid that if I say,

"Hey John, how you doing?"

He's going to explode

andand storm off,

and our opportunity

to interview him would be lost.

So we did what we thought

was the prudent thing to do,

and that was ignore him.

We get up to his hotel room.

And 20 seconds later,

he bursts into the room.

And the shawl he had over his

shoulders, he flings off.

And the shawl he had over his

shoulders, he flings off.

And he shakes his hair

of all this powder.

"Fooled you, didn't I?"

And, of course,

you're like, "Yeah.

You sure did."

And then, there we were.

Face to face.

Did you kill Greg Faull?

I barely knew the man.

And why would I kill him?

He was a neighbor that lived

200 yards down the beach.

Do you really believe

that this is a vendetta

by the government of Belize

to take you down and kill you?

Absolutely, sir.

You're sincerely concerned

that if you somehow wind up

You're sincerely concerned

that if you somehow wind up

in their custody, they're going

to assassinate you?

Absolutely.

Do you really think

they would kill you?

Absolutely, I do, sir.

It was all about McAfee.

Everything that we've ever seen

was McAfee, McAfee, McAfee,

who murdered

an American businessman.

McAfee who did this,

McAfee who did that.

But there wasn't very much,

uh, publicity for my son.

McAfee found a way

to keep the attention on him.

We have a President,

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