The downward spiral of a guy with too much money, made too fast with a sense of invincibility? or ......? He was onto something in his drug research? Na....poor little rich boy running away from law-suites and bedding young woman is my guess. Did he murder his neighbor? Who knows...
Murder Suspect John McAfee: I’m Innocent
As Belizean police combed the property of expat antivirus pioneer John McAfee Sunday afternoon, McAfee was closer than they could have known. He’d seen them coming, and says he hid — burying himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head so he could breathe. “It was extraordinarily uncomfortable,” he says, in an exclusive interview with Wired. “But they will kill me if they find me.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11...12_mcafee/
Plagued by Lawsuits, McAfee Founder Hunts for Cures in Belize
BY JEFF WISE | MAY 1, 2010
John McAfee, the antivirus-software pioneer, says he's lost most of his fortune -- but doesn't care. To the contrary, he now hopes to give something back by deriving antibiotics from jungle plants in Belize. Really?
"He actually sounded excited about the course his life had taken. "I'm working on a medical research project that has enormous potential," he told me. "I hired a young researcher, Dr. Adonizio, who is the leading researcher on a new branch of antibiotic development, using medicinal-type plants."
McAfee explained that infectious bacteria become dangerous only when they multiply to a certain concentration, at which point, thanks to a process called "quorum sensing," they collectively shift to a pathogenic mode. The signal that modulates this response is a certain chemical pheromone -- if a drug can block its action, the bacteria will never become dangerous. And because no bacteria are killed, the accelerated evolution that results in antibiotic resistance never occurs.
He told me that he and Adonizio had been working for two years and had found "six so far" of the medicinal plants. "The problem is that most of these plants that we've discovered don't grow in huge clumps; you've got to search for them for days to find one sample. So I have a complex of greenhouses, which I built, where we try and incubate them."
A little research revealed that, sure enough, quorum sensing is a hot new discipline -- the first peer-reviewed papers appeared about a decade ago. Could McAfee do for human health what he'd done for computers? If anyone was going to transform the world twice, in two completely different fields, it seemed like he could be the one."
http://www.fastcompany.com/1615167/plagu...res-belize
The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee, Volume 1: The Girl Assassin
http://gizmodo.com/5960138/the-crazy-sec...e-volume-1
Antivirus Founder, John McAfee, says politics caused GSU raid
May 2, 2012
McAfee has been arrested in Belize on charges related to weapons. A Gang Surpression Unit raided his research facility, according to reports. McAfee has said the police "murdered my dog in cold blood," took his passport and busted down unlocked doors. He claims the raid was a shakedown and that the weapons charges are bogus. But this isn't the first time McAfee has found himself at the center of legal or civil scuffles.
http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/69892
John McAfee, sought in slaying, was known as Silicon Valley eccentric
Early signs of the eccentric behavior of entrepreneur John McAfee, who surrounded himself with a private paramilitary security force on a Belize island and was being hunted there Tuesday night in connection with a murder, could be seen decades earlier in Silicon Valley as he created his namesake anti-virus program.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_2...-eccentric
Is John McAfee on bath salts? Fugitive software millionaire wanted for murder in Belize wrote about experimenting with dangerous drug
McAfee, who moved to Belize for lower taxes, has been in hiding since April following a raid where Belize authorities accused him of manufacturing methamphetamine
Pictured are some of the weapons that Belize's Gang Suppression Unit claim they recovered from McAfee's home. He is now wanted for murder
The age of consent in Belize is 16-years-old for both sexes.
But earlier this year his new venture fell apart when he was arrested because he refused to donate money to a local politician.
After his company suffered setbacks, the yoga lover moved to Belize in 2008 and then launched a bid to make antibiotics from jungle plants. As of 2009 his fortune, once valued at $100million, had fallen to $4million.
That year he finished liquidating his U.S. real estate holdings which included 280-acres in Colorado, a beachfront estate in Hawaii, properties in Arizona and Texas, and a ranch in Rodeo, New Mexico.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...salts.html