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Hello, there.

My name is John McAfee.

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[ Women talking excitedly ]

[ Gunshot ]

Just coming in right now...

John McAfee, the creator of an antivirus software,

found dead in a Spanish prison.

He's dead. They killed him.

Within 30 minutes of McAfee's death,

the hashtag "JohnMcAfeeDidntKillHimself"

went viral.

McAfee said if he ever wound up dead

by suicide in a prison cell,

he was whacked by the U.S. government.

"They did to him what they did to Epstein."

You cannot make this crap up, folks.

This is... This is real life.

McAfee was seen as a rebel,

an outlaw, a truth-teller.

The Deep State rules everything.

I don't believe he killed himself.

I believe he was murdered.

We don't have an autopsy report.

We don't have any crime-scene photos.

It's like a game,

and there were people that got caught up in it,

and it was dangerous.

??

911. Emergency.

The official narrative doesn't tell the whole story.

But you really have to look at everything.

You still have to go down that rabbit hole.

You still have to go down that path.

When a celebrity dies,

the search for answers moves online,

and the truth may be one click away.

It's the morning of June 23, 2021,

in a small prison outside of Barcelona,

and John McAfee has just received the news

he had been dreading.

Spain's National Court

has ordered his extradition to the United States.

If convicted, it means the 75-year-old

could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

According to his wife, McAfee spoke to her briefly

on the phone that morning.

His last words to me were,

"I love you and I will call you in the evening."

But the call never came.

Around 4:00 p.m., McAfee asked prison guards

to let him stay in his cell during his scheduled free time.

But when they return two hours later,

they make a shocking discovery.

John McAfee's lifeless body is found hanging.

John McAfee, the creator of an antivirus software,

found dead in a Spanish prison.

John McAfee was a multimillionaire entrepreneur,

famous for the McAfee antivirus software that he invented.

But to many, he's best known for his outlandish exploits,

colorful personality, and wild conspiracy theories.

His death was a bonanza of conspiracy theories,

and I knew it would be as soon as it happened.

He was involved in money.

There were drugs. There were women.

There was weird stuff. There were flights From the law.

My name is Jimmy Watson.

Can't talk about the missions that I was on,

but I did 12 combat deployments

between the Marine Corps and the Navy SEALs.

John McAfee... he said,

"I need you to come over to my house immediately

'cause I'm in fear for my life."

I was like, "Sir, I'm here to protect you."

I started seeing what John was seeing through his eyes.

Then we started becoming closer.

Most people see these documentaries

out there and stuff about him.

Nothing has been accurate about him so far.

He's portrayed as the bad guy.

Because that's all they know of him.

That's all he wanted them to know about him.

That's why there's so much misportrayal out there

about him because they don't have the real story.

When I heard that John McAfee had died,

everything about it seemed suspicious

because everything in his life was so weird

and so public and so outsized.

[ Gun cocks, gunshot ]

And so many people may have had good reason

to think his death was suspicious

because just three days before his alleged suicide,

his wife tweeted that powerful forces were out to get him.

- "Somebody got to him. - Somebody took him out.

There's no way this happened by his own hand.

There has to be a conspiracy here."

When Spanish authorities

released little information about his death,

online sleuths turned to the Internet

for clues about who might have wanted John McAfee dead and why.

My name is Deanna Thompson, and I am an Internet sleuth.

From 2010 to 2012, I tracked down a killer,

and he was eventually arrested.

I was always fascinated with McAfee

because I spend a lot of time in dark places on the Internet,

and so did John.

So when he died, I became fascinated

with all the conspiracies surrounding his death.

When you're talking about conspiracy theories

like John McAfee didn't kill himself,

there's not one narrative leading throughout.

In the hours after his death,

three theories begin to spread online.

Some claim he was taken out by the U.S. government

because he knew too much about the so-called Deep State.

He said he's going to release information to the news outlets

about Hollywood elites and corporate America elites

that are, you know, in this evil cabal

that are raping and murdering children.

Another theory is he was targeted

by a Central American government

because he was going to expose their corruption.

And on the fringes of the Web,

an even more bizarre idea begins to spread...

That he faked his own death and is still out there.

His ex believes that he faked his own death.

This is a case where the people who knew him best

are the ones adding fuel to the fire.

- [ Ding! ] - I've been working as

an investigative journalist for over a decade now.

I've been really focusing in

on the spread of myths and disinformation

and how conspiracy theories take hold of society.

I have a background

in army counterintelligence and anti-terrorism operations,

and I'm a criminal investigator

for my local sheriff's department.

What Justin, Deanna, and I are going to do here

is evaluate some of these theories

and see where they lead us

and see if they lead us in a plausible direction.

When we're missing key pieces of evidence in a case,

we have to think outside the box a little bit

and start looking at the next...

ring, if you will, of information.

As online sleuths start poring over the details

of McAfee's strange and troubled life,

they immediately discover patterns.

In order to understand who John McAfee is,

you really have to know about his origins.

He seemed to have it all,

but in learning about him, he definitely had a dark side.

So, when you learn that somebody committed suicide,

one of the first things you ask yourself is,

does that person have a family history of mental-health issues?

He grew up in a very abusive household,

being abused by his alcoholic father.

And one thing we do know

is that John's father was abusive to him.

And he said that his father committed suicide with a gun

when John was 15.

That's a really important data point.

In 1986, the world's first computer virus

crossed over from Pakistan to America,

and McAfee saw an opportunity.

He developed the world's first antivirus program.

McAfee stumbled on a brilliant idea.

Within five years of launching his company,

half of Fortune 500 companies

were using McAfee antivirus software.

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McAfee left his namesake company with a $100-million fortune

and, over the decade that followed,

managed to squander almost all of it.

He spent a lot of money on, like, weird ventures.

One of McAfee's startup ideas

was an aviation sport called aerotrekking,

which basically involved people flying around in giant kites,

but the sport had a deadly end.

It led to the death of his nephew,

as well as a father of three.

And not long afterwards, probably facing

a wrongful-death lawsuit, McAfee fled to Belize.

This would become kind of a pattern for McAfee.

He'd get in trouble, he'd flee the country.

He reinvented himself as a tycoon.

He was constantly surrounded

with scantily clad women and heavily armed bodyguards.

When he arrives in Belize,

McAfee makes friends with local authorities

when he donates stun guns, radios,

and other gear to the police.

And at first, they appear to look the other way

while he parties, shoots guns, and does whatever he wants.

But he claims the government got greedy

and tried to extort him for more money.

The local political authority and police came to me

and said, "Mr. McAfee, if you would donate $2 million,

we'll give you a million acres."

I said no.

They wanted him to pay the president at the time

$2 million for his campaign coming up.

He refused to. Bad things happened.

McAfee allegedly tries to turn the tables on the government

using his knowledge of Internet security.

He donated these computers to the government

with a keystroke technology software on them

so he could collect dirt from them.

He was collecting vital information on them.

He claims that his spy software had uncovered corruption

at the highest levels of the Belize government.

His conflict with Belizean authorities

reaches a boiling point in 2012.

McAfee got in all sorts of new legal hot water

when his neighbor was found shot in the back of the head.

McAfee and the neighbor had been disputing for quite some time.

The neighbor had allegedly complained

about McAfee's aggressive dogs.

And shortly thereafter, McAfee claims

he discovered the dogs had been poisoned.

Unsurprisingly, Belizean police

looked at McAfee as the prime suspect.

McAfee publicly denied any involvement

in his neighbor's death.

- Did I kill Mr. Faull? No. - Let me be clear.

But privately, he implied a different story.

One day, he leaned in to me, and he says, "Son..."

He said, "You know how much I love my dogs, right?"

And I said, "Yes, sir. I know you love your dogs."

'Cause he loved them dogs.

And he said, you know...

"I'll just leave it at that."

Fearing arrest, McAfee flees Belize for Guatemala,

but he's detained upon arrival

for entering the country illegally.

McAfee finally surfaced in Guatemala...

How many people at the checkpoint?

...where he was arrested.

- John, where are you going? - To jail.

McAfee fled the U.S.

after his "sky kite" game killed two people.

Now he's fleeing Belize after his neighbor winds up dead.

It's a pattern that would keep repeating itself.

In Guatemala, he suffers

what appears to be a serious medical incident,

but in reality, McAfee has pulled off a move

worthy of "Ocean's 11."

He had faked a heart attack

and soon after is deported back to the United States.

- I'm going to America. - I'm very glad to be going home.

- John, any regrets?! - No regrets.

No regrets.

The heart issue... Was that a ruse?

- Did you do that to...? - I'm sorry?

The issues with your heart.

- Of course it was ruse. - Get real.

He was a master escape artist.

If you doubted him, you just looked like a fool in the end.

It's like he's continually playing a chess game

with everyone and everything.

It's after he leaves Belize

that McAfee begins to speak publicly

about his theory that the government of Belize

is out to get him.

He said, "The Belizean government's after me,

and if something happens to me, I'm gonna release

all this information to news sources worldwide."

The Belize government has denied

all allegations of corruption

and any involvement in McAfee's death.

After he fled, the Belizean prime minister

called McAfee "bonkers."

Online conspiracy theorists still debate

whether the Belizean government played any part in his death.

But John McAfee would soon start spreading

another conspiracy theory

about a government much closer to home.

He accuses the U.S. government of trying to kill him.

- He was terrified for his life. - Somebody was hunting him down.

I don't believe he killed himself.

I believe he was murdered.

In June 2021, tech entrepreneur John McAfee

is found hanging in his Spanish prison cell.

While some people are convinced McAfee killed himself,

alternate theories begin to take over the Internet.

After stating on multiple occasions

that he would not take his own life,

Internet security mogul and conspiracy theorist John McAfee

was found dead of an apparent suicide.

Some wonder if a foreign government had got to him,

but across the Internet, another theory was going viral...

The so-called Deep State had killed him

because he was going to expose their darkest secrets.

He's dead. They killed him.

??

He certainly didn't believe that if something happened

it would be by his own hand.

Messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect,

"We're coming for you, McAfee."

Does the government have the power to do this?

Absolutely.

You cannot make this crap up, folks.

This is... This is real life.

In a whole bunch of online communities,

there's kind of a constant conversation going on about,

you know, who the Deep State is targeting

and what really happened to some of these high-profile deaths.

They have headlines like

"Deep State true believer McAfee dead, as he predicted."

McAfee said if he ever wound up dead

by suicide in a prison cell,

he was whacked by the U.S. government,

which was pursuing him for tax evasion.

Another article written by a really prominent

conspiracy theorist reads,

"John McAfee's wife claims Spanish authorities

are overseeing a cover-up of his death."

John McAfee thought

the government was after him, big-time,

and he had terrible fears about it.

And you couldn't help but think that some of it was true.

John McAfee had spent nearly four years in Belize,

but when tensions reached a boiling point

when he was suspected in his neighbor's murder,

he returns to the U.S. in 2012.

By the time he gets back to the U.S.,

McAfee is paranoid.

He figured the Belizean government was after him,

drug traffickers, maybe the U.S. government.

Who knows who else.

He was so worried about his own safety

that he hired a crack team of former military personnel

to serve as his personal bodyguards.

??

- His place was like a compound. - I walk in.

It seemed like a dangerous environment.

Filled with smoke like a casino.

He had holes in the walls all by his room

where he had shot holes through the wall.

So I was like, "Man, I got to get out of here."

You know, in the SEAL teams, we don't play that game.

McAfee would stay in his room for days trading cryptocurrency.

- He always seemed very intense. - He was always thinking.

He would just sit there and just stare

and just tap his foot, you know?

The early days of cryptocurrency

were a nearly lawless world

full of conspiracy theorists and anti-government outlaws.

And it's here, in the dark reaches of the Web,

that online investigators begin digging into the theory

that the U.S. government had him killed.

When I got this case,

I was like, "I really know a lot about him."

You know, I had been immersed in John McAfee's world

for... eight or nine years.

I was a member of these Telegram channels

where people would talk about John McAfee.

My impression was that he liked infamy.

I think he enjoyed the renegade,

rebellious kind of persona that he portrayed,

but his persona that he portrayed

was so hard to like.

Especially as, like, a woman in the cryptocurrency space,

he was just so... aggressive.

McAfee's alpha-male personality

helps make him an early cryptocurrency influencer.

He had a million followers,

and 75% of them were doing what he suggested.

John McAfee was a figurehead in the cryptocurrency community.

I call them "crypto bros."

They're all very machismo.

They're all very conspiratorial.

Crypto wasn't just a way to make money.

For McAfee, it's also part of a political movement.

For the last couple of years of his life,

he had reinvented himself as a messiah

in the crypto libertarian movement.

McAfee was an early booster of cryptocurrencies.

Publicly, he was extolling the virtue

of a decentralized, private currency,

but really what was going on is that he found a way

to move his money far away from the prying eyes of government.

He saw crypto as the freest commodity.

He wanted others to enjoy the freedoms

that we're supposed to have, you see.

With all existing fiat currencies,

you must trust somebody, the U.S. government.

They own you. They control you.

Cryptocurrency, you don't need

anybody's permission to do anything.

I can send whatever I want anywhere instantly.

It's all part of McAfee's libertarian philosophy

of limited government and maximum freedom.

John McAfee was a big libertarian.

He tried twice to run

on the Libertarian Party banner for president.

McAfee was seen as an outlaw, a truth-teller,

somebody that the MSM and the politicians

were trying to silence.

Elected officials, presidents, Congress, whatever.

The true power in the government is not those people.

The Seep State, which is the career,

99% of our government, rules everything.

He bragged about avoiding taxes.

I have not paid taxes for eight years.

I've made no secret of it. I have not filed returns.

When privacy coins are widely used,

governments will no longer be able to collect income taxes.

And as McAfee's anti-government rants

become more and more popular,

his fears grow that he's now a target.

He was terrified for his life.

I started to realize that somebody

was following John McAfee.

Somebody was hunting him down.

Somebody had it out for him.

I would see certain things, like these black SUVs

circling the property over and over and over.

That doesn't happen to anybody unless you're being watched

or somebody wants to appear to threaten you.

As the months went by,

what other people call paranoia,

I call complacency on their behalf.

In June 2019,

McAfee's paranoia pushes him to the edge

and he flees the country again,

this time for Cuba.

And while on the run, he announces that he's amassed

31 terabytes of incriminating evidence

on his enemies in the so-called Deep State.

He threatens to release the information

if anything happens to him.

He was very involved

in his own fairy tale of being this, like...

"on the run, everybody's out to get me.

I have all these secrets about everybody,

and they're afraid I'm gonna release

31 terabytes of data to, you know, the world

about all the corruption in the U.S. government."

He tweeted, "Why am I keeping this information private

if it could help the world?

Because I am a dead man the moment it's released."

McAfee even permanently marks his own body

to let the world know

if anything happens to him He didn't do it.

He got out a tattoo of "Whackd" on his arm.

He's obviously telling the world,

"Look. I'm not gonna kill myself."

He would tell me all the time.

He said, "Jimmy, you know, if I die,

somebody poisoned me, somebody killed me.

Do you understand that?" And I'd say, "Yes, sir."

But in October 2020,

the long arm of the U.S. justice system

finally catches up with him,

proving his paranoia isn't total fantasy.

Just because you're paranoid

doesn't mean the government's not out to get you.

And in McAfee's case, they were.

McAfee is charged with multiple counts of tax evasion.

Which he basically confessed to publicly, repeatedly.

But here they were not looking to kill him.

They were looking to prosecute him.

But once again, McAfee flees authorities

and he heads to Europe.

He was always trying to play that chess game

and be one step ahead.

But this time it's checkmate,

and he's arrested by Spanish authorities

while trying to board a flight to Istanbul.

Nine months later, he'd be dead of an apparent suicide.

And his death will ignite a wave of speculation

connected to one of the Internet's

most infamous conspiracy theories.

It was instantly spread around as, "They took him out.

They did to him what they did to Epstein."

It was just there immediately, and it was everywhere.

When antivirus-software pioneer John McAfee is found dead

in a Spanish prison in June 2021,

media reports around the world

only focus on the official cause of death.

Antivirus-software entrepreneur John McAfee

has reportedly been found dead in his Spanish jail cell.

All signs point to suicide.

But online conspiracy theorists

refuse to believe he killed himself.

They say John McAfee was murdered by the U.S. government.

To try and separate fact from fiction

in this explosive allegation,

Internet investigators begin examining

McAfee's digital footprint while he was incarcerated.

The events leading up to his death are important.

It's always crucial to look at the hours,

the days, maybe even the months prior.

In the first months of captivity,

McAfee begins sending tweets from prison.

They appear to paint a picture

of a man familiar to those who know him,

defiant in the face of adversity.

His tweet is this.

"I am content in here. I have friends.

The food is good. All is well.

Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein,

it will be no fault of mine."

So at face value, this tweet makes it sound

like he's making it clear

that if he is ever found hanging in his cell

that it was not his own doing.

He is putting the idea out there in people's minds now.

But McAfee's lawyer claims his client was isolated

as part of a larger plot to break him.

My name is Nishay Sanan.

I do federal criminal defense work

all over the country.

John McAfee's wife, Janice,

asked if I'd be interested in representing him

in both the tax criminal case in Tennessee

and in the securities fraud case.

We had a lot of problems with this prison, dealing with this prison.

I wasn't even able to go see him.

They were blocking my ability as his U.S. attorney,

basically saying I'm not his attorney in Spain.

They didn't want him in a big prison

where he would become popular

and, again, where he could use the media.

And, you know, if you follow the conspiracy theories,

if he was murdered, it's a lot easier

to do it in a small prison than a big prison.

McAfee's wife, Janice,

claims he's determined to fight his case to the end.

Three days before he died, she tweeted this.

"Now the U.S. authorities are determined

to have John die in prison to make an example of him

for speaking out against the corruption

within their government agencies."

Janice was certain that John was being targeted.

On the morning of June 23, 2021,

John McAfee is told he has lost

his extradition appeal to the U.S.

John McAfee was not suicidal.

I spoke with him a few hours before he was found dead.

We spoke about the court's decision

to extradite him to the U.S.

It did not come as a surprise to either of us.

We were prepared for that decision

and had a plan of action already in place

to appeal that decision.

Immediately after John McAfee's death is announced,

one online conspiracy community in particular

begins lighting up the Internet.

A lot of right-wing online communities

really freaked out over McAfee's death.

As 4chan user posted, "It was DEFCON 1."

When I first heard about John's death,

one of the first things that came to mind

was the similarities

between John's death and Jeffrey Epstein's death.

They both allegedly hung themselves

in prison or in a jail.

And I thought to myself,

could there possibly be a connection between these two?

John McAfee was super into

the "Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself,"

like, conspiracy rabbit hole

that, you know, is really prevalent on the Internet.

And he made a lot of references to that,

you know, the whole controversy,

including, like, Hillary Clinton was involved

and Pizzagate is somehow involved

and Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.

Like many online conspiracy theorists,

McAfee believed convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

was murdered by the so-called Deep State

because he had damaging information

about high-profile people.

Now McAfee himself is dead,

and conspiracy message boards around the world

begin spreading the theory

that he was taken out because he knew too much.

Within a half-hour of McAfee's death,

an Instagram account was opened in his name,

and it posted only the letter "Q."

Naturally, QAnon went hog wild.

In 2019, McAfee had claimed he had amassed

31 terabytes of incriminating evidence

about some of the most powerful people in the world.

He said he had this compromising information

on politicians, media members, finance elites...

All of the same people who are caught up

in the "pedophile rings" and the Deep State.

McAfee said if he died under suspicious circumstances,

a so-called "dead man's switch" would be triggered

and the information would be released online.

A dead man's switch is literally a switch

that will be activated by your death.

You know, the physical version

is sort of the switch that you're holding,

that, when you die, your body releases it

and the bomb goes off or the nukes launch.

There are real things like that.

There are military dead man's switches that we know about.

So the John McAfee dead man's switch

might be something that triggers

if he doesn't post on Instagram for two days.

It is intrinsically plausible

that John McAfee could have had that dead man's switch.

He is a technical genius.

He knows his way around programming.

He's also very wealthy,

and he goes in the circles of the wealthy.

So it is plausible that he could have gotten

all of this information, used his expertise

to design this system that would protect him

or at the very least take out all of these people

if he himself got taken out.

Followers of the right-wing QAnon conspiracy

instantly latch on to his "Q" Instagram post

as the signal they had been waiting for.

QAnon is built around an event called the Great Awakening,

and this will be the mass purge of the Deep State,

the mass arrests, the great cleansing of the Western soul.

And they've been promising it for years,

and it was always about to happen.

So when you have McAfee dying and then posting a giant "Q,"

they're looking at this as an unmistakable sign from Q

that the Awakening is upon us.

"Here we go. At last."

In the immediate aftermath of the "Q" image being posted,

the sleuths of QAnon

immediately looked at the metadata for the image.

They looked at the pixels for the image.

They started looking at all the different ways

that the dead man's switch,

that the terabytes of information

could have been hidden.

They're all thinking, "We just have to figure it out.

This is the last clue that he left us,

that the normies and the mainstream media

will never be able to figure out,

but we'll be able to figure out because we're special."

They looked into the metadata of the image

and found what they claimed was a cryptographic key

that could have unlocked this dead man's switch.

What's more, within days, a website popped up

bearing a countdown that many thought

would be the release of that trove of information.

And as the countdown clock winds down,

excitement reaches a fever pitch.

Some believe the crown jewels of Deep State secrets

are finally going to be exposed.

Crypto fam, listen up.

3 hours, 41 minutes

until the potential John McAfee dead's man switch

information being released.

Stay tuned. I will be reporting on this.

"Here's all this information,

and we've been fighting to get it out."

And they look at McAfee as kind of a fallen soldier

who gave his life for the cause

and he was taken out by these people

and now he's going to expose them.

But like everything associated with John McAfee,

the countdown clock soon begins to look like more of a hoax.

This website with the countdown clock

claimed at the end of 28 days

there would be a live video link,

also that something would be uploaded to the blockchain

which could never be removed.

None of this amounted to anything.

Nothing got uploaded to the blockchain.

There was no video at the end of the countdown.

John was a famous liar.

Even when he was saying things

like that he had this dead man's switch

and he was gonna release it,

people on Twitter loved it, right?

'Cause they're all into that,

"Get Hillary Clinton. Get, you know...

Take down the pedophile elites."

You know, they're into all that.

Online sleuths see it all as part of a long pattern.

I think it's very possible this 31 terabytes of data

was total bullshit from the beginning.

But even as McAfee's dead man's switch is a bust,

new questions arise about his death.

Why kill yourself

until you've lost every last try, right?

I don't believe he killed himself.

I believe he was murdered.

We will likely never know if John McAfee actually had

31 terabytes of incriminating evidence

against the so-called Deep State,

but the fact McAfee's treasure trove of secrets

never materialized doesn't stop speculation

swirling around his state of mind.

If convicted, McAfee faces the possibility

of serious prison time.

The U.S. government had charged him with tax evasion,

and they added on additional charges of fraud

related to his crypto trading.

But as online investigators

dig into the last months of his life,

they begin to paint a much different picture

of his legal battles than had been reported.

John knew that even if we had lost the first round

of extradition on the Tennessee case,

there was still round two and round three

on the higher levels of court, even in the Spanish system.

So we were still six to nine months out

before, in my opinion, he would have ever step foot

in the United States.

Top legal experts back in the U.S. agree.

McAfee still had many legal moves left to make.

My name is Hope Lefeber.

I am a criminal defense lawyer.

Mr. McAfee was facing a slew of charges.

He was charged with conspiracy

to commit commodities and securities fraud.

But when things seem impossible, then you cut a deal.

You hedge your bets.

John McAfee had many defenses available to him.

Why kill yourself

until you've lost every last try, right?

Problems with the law are nothing new for John McAfee.

There had been lawsuits and criminal charges

throughout his chaotic career.

But he always found ways to get out of them.

And even if he was extradited to the U.S.,

experts note legal precedents

around cryptocurrency are uncertain.

On paper, it looks terrible

and it looks like he will be facing

8 to 12 years or possibly more in jail.

However, it has not ever been determined

by Congress or the Supreme Court

precisely what cryptocurrency is.

Believe it or not, there is no standing precedent

that controls right now on these issues.

If he wanted to be the martyr and commit suicide,

why wouldn't he wait till he got back to the United States

and do it in a U.S. prison cell and shove it up their asses?

He said, "I'm not gonna kill myself.

If I'm found hung or found dead, I was Epstein'd."

That's the way I look at this.

I don't think he would have killed himself

in a Spanish prison, and I don't believe he killed himself.

I believe he was murdered.

And when online investigators

begin looking into his alleged suicide note,

even more questions emerge.

There was a suicide note found,

and he was hanging from the bunk bed.

John's suicide note... Janice tweeted a copy of it.

You know your family members' handwriting.

If you laid out a bunch of pieces of paper

with each one of your family members' writing on it,

you would be able to say, "That's my sisters.

That's my brothers.

That's my dad's. That's my mom's."

When I saw John McAfee's suicide note, I said,

"That's not John McAfee's, and that's that."

It's not.

The handwriting in John's suicide note

is very hard to read.

So I did dig into what the suicide note said on Twitter.

So I found the most popular one, and this is it.

It says, "I am a phantom parasite.

The present moments..." And there's a question mark

because the handwriting's terrible.

"I use it to attain my own ends.

Instead of fully living it, I want to control my future,

which does not exist.

By using the present and the past as controller

through the knowledge of my past,

which are mere ashes of memory."

And then there's a bunch of things, like, crossed out.

These are the things that are crossed out.

"But the here and now are beyond me.

And all reality is truth. And truth is immutable.

I use it to attain my own will.

I use it to attain my own ends."

So the things that he crosses out

lead people to believe that there's some sort of

hidden message in the suicide note.

People start taking random ciphers from, like,

a WikiLeaks tweet that was done on the same day that John died,

think that there's some sort of hidden message

to the suicide note.

And online sleuths keep uncovering

more and more information to help resolve the case.

They parse through the physical evidence

and can't believe what they find.

We don't have any crime-scene photos.

We have the word of basically one person in Spain

telling us what they want us to hear.

No one will ever know what was going through

John McAfee's head in the final days of his life,

but forensic science can often

definitively explain how someone died.

So when online investigators turn to Spanish authorities

for answers about his cause of death,

they are shocked at what they find.

When we're missing key pieces of evidence in a case,

we have to think outside the box a little bit.

If we can examine the statements made

by those who maybe worked in the prison where John died,

those who worked at the medical examiner

where he was autopsied...

If we can look at all of their statements

and see what matches up and what's consistent,

that may help us nail down some of the facts.

Key pieces of evidence are not publicly available.

We don't have the hard facts surrounding his death.

We don't have an autopsy report.

We don't have any crime-scene photos.

We have the word of basically one person in Spain

telling us what they want us to hear.

And that may be the truth, but we don't know.

The Spanish government has refused

to release McAfee's body or an autopsy report.

John's family has a lawsuit

filed against the Spanish authorities

because they won't release his body

or the autopsy report to them.

The courts in Spain sided with the Spanish authorities

and agreed that the authorities

did not need to release the autopsy report

or John's body to his family.

After that ruling, John's family filed an appeal,

and currently that appeal is ongoing in the court system

and has not been settled yet.

With so little physical evidence,

another wild theory begins to gain traction online.

Did John McAfee pull the ultimate great escape

and fake his own death?

John McAfee did not kill himself.

He may have been murdered, but since when is there no body?

I mean, what are we talking about? Osama bin Laden here?

It is very rare that there's no body.

It's very rare there's no funeral,

there's no... There's no certificates.

There's nothing... Nothing has come about it.

You would have someone come forward and say,

"Yeah, we cremated him in this certain prison.

We cremated him. I saw his body."

Nobody's saying that. There's nobody.

It's a seemingly implausible idea

that goes viral in online forums and social-media posts

when McAfee's Belizean ex-girlfriend

is featured in a Netflix documentary.

She claims he called her in the days after his alleged suicide.

I'm not saying John McAfee is alive,

but I definitely think it's very strange

that this girl just goes, "Oh, yeah, by the way,

John McAfee called me."

Because he always was calling her.

It could be a flat-out lie.

But why? Why say that?

And it is something that John could not resist but to do,

because he would expect her to say that on camera

for everybody to realize that he was still alive.

But when Internet sleuths begin digging into the facts,

they question how someone could pull off a stunt so complex.

The first thing that John would have to figure out

is who can help him with this plan that he can trust.

It's going to rely on him

finding at least one correctional officer,

at a minimum, that he could bribe

and who would keep this a secret and help John escape the jail.

Upon getting out of the jail, he needs a change of clothes.

He needs somebody to pick him up and get him away from the jail

before it's discovered that he's missing.

Going back to the jail scenario,

there was a body hanging dead in John's cell.

Someone's got to be in on that plan

to make it look like a suicide hanging.

John would need people inside the medical examiner's office

to state that whatever body they autopsied was actually his body.

So then he's got to figure out,

"How do I get out of this country?

Is it gonna be by air?"

If so, well, he probably needs a passport.

In theory, with his money,

maybe he can keep just traveling from place to place.

But the money is another aspect. He's dead.

So in theory,

nobody should be accessing his accounts from overseas.

And I honestly think the biggest threat of all

would be keeping all of the people

who were involved in this plan silent about it.

I find it near impossible

to believe that out of those six people,

none of them would leak something.

The idea that McAfee somehow made one last great escape

may have little evidence to support it,

but it's an appealing thought for his many followers online.

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There's just people who don't want to accept

that he took his own life.

It's like a game,

and there were people that got caught up in it,

and it was dangerous.

A prediction of his own death,

a suspicious suicide note, the possibility John McAfee

could have fought his legal case for years.

For many doubters of the official story,

the facts all point in one direction...

Like Epstein before him, McAfee didn't kill himself.

But when Internet investigators begin digging deeper

into his final months, they uncover evidence of a man

who appears ready to end his life.

When John first got locked up, he was on, he was defiant.

But as I analyzed his tweets, as the months went on,

he got more and more

sort of depressive, like he was losing hope.

He doesn't speak the language. He has nobody to talk to.

He's feeling very melancholy. He has no human contact.

He constantly had this entourage around him.

This is a man who needed social interaction.

Another key piece of evidence that conspiracy theorists

conveniently overlook is,

according to Spanish authorities,

John McAfee tried to commit suicide

about four months before he died.

This was a few days before he killed himself,

on June 10th.

"There is much sorrow in prison disguised as hostility.

The sorrow is plainly visible,

even in the most angry of faces.

And my remaining assets are all seized,

my friends evaporated through the fear of association.

I have nothing. But I regret nothing."

And I feel like that's like a suicide note.

But the facts surrounding his death haven't stopped

John McAfee's myth from living on

for those who worshiped him.

There's just people who don't want to accept

that he took his own life and that he's dead.

And so any little tidbit they can find

that they feel supports the opposite,

meaning that he's still alive

and/or that he didn't actually commit suicide,

they just take hold of it and won't let it go.

There's a lot of fragile male ego

out there in the crypto-sphere.

These guys don't want to believe

that somebody they perceive as, like, "the crypto king"

could kill themselves.

They don't want to see

this person that they idolize as weak.

For some people with a really intense

distrust of the government,

John McAfee is an understandable cult hero.

And so when he dies, a lot of that hope,

a lot of that optimism dies, too.

So for a lot of them,

I think it's incumbent for their philosophy

that they find some other explanation apart from suicide.

But the truth about McAfee's death

may have a simple explanation.

He was a showman with one last trick up his sleeve.

John McAfee was a guy who loved to flout the rules.

If he could shock you, well, he did it all the better.

A con loves to get one over on people.

Sometimes people will con and fool people

or create a wild goose chase

just to make people feel stupid,

just to have it dead-end, just to be able to say,

"Oh. You fell for that? What's wrong with you?"

It's like a game,

and there were people that got caught up in it,

and it was dangerous.

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