Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Page #7

a Prime Minister,

you have the Mayor of San Pedro,

the Minister of Tourism,

all giving interviews

about a man who's just

batshit crazy.

Well, I've never met the man.

Don't know what

he looks like.

Uh, I don't want

to be unkind,

but it strikes me

that he's extremely paranoid.

In fact, I would go so far

as to say bonkers.

By then, everybody know

who is John McAfee.

I couldn't hide him no more.

So we drove

to the southernmost border

with Guatemala.

It's 200 miles south

of Belize City.

He saw me bullshit my way

through many checkpoints

in the time we knew each other.

He knew I could get him out.

So how did you

get him out of the country?

Iwe just put him on a boat

and dump him on land

in Guatemala.

And dump him on land

in Guatemala.

We didn'tno customs,

no immigration, no nothing.

That's illegal.

I told him I could've gotten

his passport legally stamped

in a place called

Puerto Barrios.

But once he knew he was

getting out in a boat,

he took complete control.

He's John again.

He does what he wants to do.

All my advice to him never

really mattered anymore.

All my advice to him never

really mattered anymore.

He's John McAfee now.

The great escape.

I could walk into

the police station,

ask directions, and they would

give me directions.

VICE TV followed him

and they just decide to take

a picture with the iPhone.

They found out his location.

How did that happen?

With some picture

that VICE took with GPS

With some picture

that VICE took with GPS

where it was on

or something like that.

You know, you had VICE TV

posting that picture

that does give away

his location.

He was undone by that

in Guatemala.

You know, the tech guy.

Who would have thunk?

Now he's in trouble

with Guatemala

by entering the country

illegally.

That's when I told him,

you know,

"I have an uncle

who could help you.

I think he could be your lawyer

and take you out of

the country if you want."

McAfee, who is wanted

for questioning

McAfee, who is wanted

for questioning

in connection

with a murder in Belize,

says he will be seeking

asylum in Guatemala

and has retained highprofile

Guatemalan attorney

and former attorney general

Telsforo Guerra.

So when he was

in Guatemala,

was he still considered

a suspect, or was he

So you tried

to have him extradited?

Interpol discovered

John's exact location.

Interpol discovered

John's exact location.

And VICE was the only camera

crew to capture his arrest.

What's the problem?

They're trying to arrest me

for coming into the country

illegally.

Can't they take me back

to Belize tonight?

No, never. Never, never.

Are you sure?

Can you promise me, sir?

Because I'm not worried

about anything else.

Of course, they won't

take you to Belize, no.

Never, never.

I will go with you.

Whoa, whoa, wait.

"Thank God I'm in a place

where there is some sanity."

Those were the words John McAfee

said before being arrested

in Guatemala City

on Wednesday night

in Guatemala City

on Wednesday night

for illegal entry.

I was put in jail,

and the following morning,

they were intending

to deport me

back to Belize.

My lawyer came to my cell.

"He said, I cannot file

an appeal until three o'clock.

So until three,

they can deport you."

He said,

"Do you understand?"

I go, "Yes,

I understand fully."

I go, "Yes,

I understand fully."

Within sight

of the assembled cameras,

John McAfee suddenly swooned,

and appeared

to lose consciousness.

So I chose to fake

a heart attack.

John McAfee

was rushed to a hospital,

complaining of chest pains.

Quite a scene

was created,

as an ambulance took him

from an immigration

detention center.

They took me to

the hospital at three o'clock,

when I knew the appeal

had been filed.

I said, "I feel better.

I wanna go back to prison,

to my cell, thank you."

To my cell, thank you."

And that's what they did.

And an appeal meant

that it would be

15 years before they could

deport me back to Belize.

Well, it was not in Guatemala's

interest to keep me in prison

for that many years,

so I was deported

to the States,

which is what I wanted.

This afternoon, he boarded

a flight back to Florida.

Amid a media frenzy,

Guatemalan police

forced him aboard

a U. S.bound flight.

Software developer

John McAfee

has returned

to the United States.

The software pioneer

is still wanted

for questioning in the murder

of an American citizen

in Belize,

but he's free for now.

And at the moment,

he's still not charged

with any crime.

I cannot help but feel

that he enjoyed,

in his mind, playing the role

of kind of a puppet master.

He had a plan,

and he was orchestrating

that plan.

What's a better story?

What's a better story?

Millionaire mad man

on the run.

But you saved my.

Why?

'Cause you paid attention

to the story.

Because you acted

like a mad man?

I did, and it worked.

It's something

that I guess I have to learn

to realize that it's something

that I can't do anything about.

I can't rectify it.

I can't solve it.

I can't punish anybody.

I can't do anything except

regret the loss of my son.

Regret the loss of my son.

And, uh

I don't know what else

to say about it.

Mmhmm.

Is it DNA tested?

We do not have the level

of forensic expertise

to prosecute a crime like that.

Right.

That is a matter of fact.

We've barely begun

to touch fingerprinting,

that sort of thing.

And our murder/conviction rate

is below 3 %.

And our murder/conviction rate

is below 3 %.

Really?

No.

And who was

at John's house at the time?

Mmhmm.

Cash had not

been easy to find.

Because he didn't want

to be found.

Because he didn't want

to be found.

Finally, his friend

Eddie Halliday

urged him to talk to me.

You know?

He was asking

to put money

in people's bank accounts?

To put money

in people's bank accounts?

So, tell me about

what happened

with Greg Faull.

What guy's account?

I was with him the night

when his neighbor got shot.

He was with me in the room.

Like, four in the morning,

he was still there.

And what was he like?

You know, this, that.

Any time in that

period that Greg was killed,

did you ever see Eddie Mac,

or MAC10 at the house?

He wasn't there the night

dog was poisoned.

In morning he was there.

I saw that guy

this darkskinned guy.

MAC10 they call him, yeah.

I only saw him, like,

just I got a glimpse of him.

He was in the hall

talking to him.

He was in the hall

talking to him.

And I just came in,

got a juice,

and I went back in the room.

Did you ever

see him again?

No, I never saw him again.

To do what?

You know, to kill the guy.

Did the police

ever question you

about the murder

of Greg Faull?

Well, you know

You know?

I was trying to find

Eddie McKoy

to ask him about

these new allegations.

Eventually, he agreed

to meet me a second time.

Eventually, he agreed

to meet me a second time.

What new information

do you have for me?

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