John McAfee Starts Blog While in Hiding

Disguises, secret blogs and cash rewards for the truth—no its not part of the next 007 movie, but the real-life drama of a well-known fugitive. Software pioneer John McAfee has started a blog detailing his life on the lam. Belizean authorities allege McAffee may have played a part in the Nov. 11 murder of his neighbor, American businessman Gregory Viant Faull, but McAfee insists he is innocent.

Police labeled McAfee a person of interest in the case and wanted to question him in relation to Faull’s death, caused by a gunshot wound to the head. Faull and McAfee had allegedly quarreled about McAfee’s dogs prior to the homicide. Rather than speaking to police, McAfee went on the run, for fear he would be killed in Belizean jail cells before a trial took place.

“Things do not operate here as they do in the states,” McAfee said in a CNBC interview where he explained he would fight the allegations as long as he continues to breath. “We are living in a near dictatorship where the legal system is subservient to the cabinet.”

In the recently published blog, McAfee claims he donned disguises and returned to his San Pedro residence following his disappearance to watch police search the property. He said he saw police dig up the bodies of four dogs he claims they poisoned, before cutting off their heads and reburying them. McAfee said he first dressed as a peasant hawker and then as a drunk German tourist.

McAfee claims the blog is being maintained by Chad Essley, a graphic novelist who is also working on a publication of McAfee’s story. In a post Nov. 19 post, McAfee wrote he has enough pre-written material to keep the blog, whoismcafee.com, alive for at least a year.

In the first disguise, McAfee said he darkened his skin with shoe polish and stuffed bubble gum in his cheeks to make his face look fuller. Then he dressed in rags instead of normal clothes.

“I stuffed a shaved down tampon deep into my right nostril and died the tip dark brown, giving my nose an awkward, lopsided, disgusting appearance,” he wrote in his blog Nov. 19.

His second disguise consisted of swimming trunks, an oversized Hawaiian shirt and a bandaged face. He then yelled in German to all who would listen.

According to McAfee’s blog posts, police searched his home seven times.

“What I discovered is that the police are more concerned with finding me than catching Mr. Faull’s killer,” he wrote.

Through the blog, McAfee also offered $25,000 for the “capture of person or persons responsible for Mr. Faull’s murder.”

McAfee earned his fortune when he founded his namesake anit-virus software before moving to Belize in 2008. Reports have alluded to his dwindling wealth, as well as mental health, since that time.