Belize - Gregory Faull, 52, shot to death, San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, 11 Nov 2012

[Elley Mae]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20121115/DA2I76HG0.html

"I barely knew him, I barely spoke ten words to him in the last three years," McAfee said, speaking on a cellphone. "Certainly he was not my favorite person and I was not his."

"He was a heavy drinker and an annoyance. But the world is full of annoyances; if we killed all of our annoyances, there would be nobody left," McAfee said.


http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21983416/mcafee-anti-virus-founder-sought-belize-murder-probe

In San Pedro Town, the heart of the island, McAfee, 67, is "very well known," Mayor Daniel Guerrero told this
newspaper. "He just gave a huge donation to the police force and donated a very huge boat to the coast guard. I know him as a good person. Now things are changing."

I smell a shake down jmo

 

[SurfieTX]

In a telephone interview, conducted from a secret location, McAfee said he did not recognise Belize prime minister Dean Barrow's description of him as "bonkers."

He added: "I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. The world chooses to think what the world thinks."

McAfee sounded calm and coherent as he denied any involvement in the shooting of Gregory Viant Faull, 52, who lived 300 yards from him on Ambergris Caye, an island off Belize, on Saturday night.

He told the Telegraph he was at his villa that night, adding: "I was at home. I heard nothing. I knew nothing until the following day."

McAfee said he was now accompanied in hiding by a woman, and was following developments in the hunt for him intermittently. He has been described by police as a "person of interest" but is not a suspect.

He said: "I wish I had a TV, that would be very informative. I'm keeping tabs through friends. I have intermittent access to the internet, again through friends.

"They nationalised the phone company and so they can trace calls and triangulate. I cannot talk on this phone for long.

"My plan is a day-to-day plan, simply to avoid detection."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...fears-execution-and-will-never-surrender.html

 

[SurfieTX]

Joshua Davis ‏@JoshuaDavisNow
@DDERSS McAfee was almost always armed in the time I spent with him. He carried a revolver, either in his hand or in a holster.

View conversation
1h Joshua Davis ‏@JoshuaDavisNow

McAfee on the phone just now: He's still at large. No raid yet.

16h Joshua Davis ‏@JoshuaDavisNow
McAfee just emailed me. "Rumors are rife of imminent raid," he writes.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaDavisNow

 

[Dion]

Keith Morrison is in Belize filming a Dateline episode on McAfee - should be interesting. He has already been in touch with him. It seems McAfee has no problem reaching out to everyone (except the local authorities) either by phone or email. He even has his own website, where he gives periodic updates at www.whoismcafee.com

 

[zoomom]

Keith Morrison is in Belize filming a Dateline episode on McAfee - should be interesting. He has already been in touch with him. It seems McAfee has no problem reaching out to everyone (except the local authorities) either by phone or email. He even has his own website, where he gives periodic updates at www.whoismcafee.com

http://www.sanpedrosun.com/communit...ion-leading-to-the-arrest-of-faulls-murderer/

 

[princesspjs]

Am I the only one who is really nervous and scared for him? I keep Googling his name to see if there's any new news on him. He and Samantha must be terrified. Not to mention his friends who are STILL being held in the prison!

Praying for you all...

 

[Peliman]

I'm not about to question his innocence or guilt on the murder next door. I will say it sounds like it's time to get out of there, hire a lawyer until things get cleared up. I've read his blogs, his text and messages on another message board.

His days are numbered there as a free man and he will be captured or shot. Maybe that's the legacy he wants but when in other countries the rule is when in Rome, do as the Romans do, they own the country.

 

[princesspjs]

I agree, I have no idea what happened with the guy next door. I just know that this must be very scary for them. It would be terrifying to me.

 

[danzn16]

How would he be able to get out of the country?

 

[Peliman]

How would he be able to get out of the country?

Money and/or a fast boat, not to mention he probably has a good low flying air machine around.

 

[Dion]

Things just get stranger and stranger - this is part of his latest post where he describes his latest "disguise".

The first day I colored my full beard and my hair light grey- almost white. I darkened the skin of my face, neck and hands carefully with shoe polish and put on an LA Saints baseball cap with the brim facing backwards and tufts of the front of my hair sticking out unkempt through the band. I stuffed my cheeks with chewed bubble gum stuck to the outside of my upper and lower molars – making my face appear much fatter. I darkened and browned my front teeth. 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.

http://www.whoismcafee.com/


He then goes on to describe how he sold wooden carvings to passers while using one disguise, and tamales etc. using yet another one.

Oh right, draw attention to yourself by not only wearing weird disguises outside your own home, but interact with people (including the police!) while not only disguised, but using different accents, including German!

 

[Dion]

I had wondered why the police cut off and removed the (dead and buried) dogs heads and didn't remove the entire bodies to test for poison, and it seems McAfee wondered the same thing, albeit from the point of view that they would be unable to perform an autopsy due to the length of time that had passed.

I understand that the reason for removing the heads was to extract the bullets, to check them against the one removed from the man who was murdered (Greg Faull).

 

[zoomom]

How would he be able to get out of the country?

Really pretty easy. After subscribing to the local news, forums, and blogs for the last couple of years, and getting the jist of things, suspects can just cross by land into another central or south american country. Then they hide out, and email from there. Now using a visa to get back into the USA or Canada seems to be more of a sticky wicket.

The more you read and learn in the local news - it seems like witnesses to these cold blooded murders just disappear or vanish due to death threats. ie: "nobody knows nothing".

Not encouraging to the families of the victims.

 

[zoomom]

I had wondered why the police cut off and removed the (dead and buried) dogs heads and didn't remove the entire bodies to test for poison, and it seems McAfee wondered the same thing, albeit from the point of view that they would be unable to perform an autopsy due to the length of time that had passed.

I understand that the reason for removing the heads was to extract the bullets, to check them against the one removed from the man who was murdered (Greg Faull).

They SHOULD have removed the entire bodies.........and tested for poison, etc. Chain of custody, evidence gathering protocol, etc. You only get one crack at it...do it fool-proof. JMO.

 

[princesspjs]

I'm not so sure that the government in Belize is very worried about protocol or accurate testing procedures. From what I've heard about that government, the "tests" will show whatever they want the tests to show.

IMO, JMO, MOO

 

[SurfieTX]

Anything written by McAfee and posted online should be taken with a grain of salt:

In hacker culture, screwing with people's heads to get what you want is called "social engineering." McAfee's undertakings in this vein have been as plentiful and spontaneous as his ventures in capitalism, and range from the sprawling to the picayune. If, for example, you enter the search question "Where does John McAfee live?" into wiki.answers.com, you will learn that "until recently McAfee lived on Ambergris Caye in Belize. In August of 2009, he became a citizen of Honduras and now lives on the Rio Dulce near Isabal."

"You can't believe anything you read on the Web," says McAfee, who has never been to Honduras, and who, of course, put the information there himself. He also put on his Facebook page a picture of a home under construction, with a caption reading: "Became a citizen of the British Virgin Islands today, and moved into my home in Tortola -- both on the same day. A day of rejoicing."

Like many of McAfee's pranks, these gags are both fun and purposeful. There are, he mentions, five civil lawsuits against him currently pending in the United States -- "That's how it is in the States," he says. "If people know you have money, they'll sue you" -- and his Facebook sham was just a harmless game of cat and mouse. "The judge in one case, he couldn't understand why I would put incorrect information about myself on the Web," he says. "I told him, 'When I put that up, I wasn't under oath.' He asked me why I would do such a thing. I said, 'I thought that if somebody wanted to serve me papers, it would be much more enjoyable for everyone involved if they tried to serve those papers to me in Honduras.' "

I'm of the opinion that McAfee is not in Belize. He did not alter his appearance. This is all a "cat and mouse game."


http://www.fastcompany.com/1615167/plagued-lawsuits-mcafee-founder-hunts-cures-belize

 

[Dion]

They SHOULD have removed the entire bodies.........and tested for poison, etc. Chain of custody, evidence gathering protocol, etc. You only get one crack at it...do it fool-proof. JMO.

That's right. What if an autopsy showed the dogs were not poisoned in the first place?

 

[wfgodot]

Let's see....I'm not in a linking mood yet (coffee hasn't kicked in) but in the last few days we've "learned" that, according to himself, Mr McAfee is hiding in plain sight, i.e., he claims to be still within his compound, and, from other sources, that the bath salts rumors evidently have a basis in fact.

Personally speaking, I disengaged from believing anything from McAfee after he claimed to have buried his body in sand on the beach and, with a box over his head, escaped detection.

Those who move to another country should respect its laws and system of justice. He should turn himself in.

 

[tlcya]

If the country is as corrupt as he claims it is, in the long run, he still choose it as his home. He is not like many people, stuck with his decision due to finance.

I agree Woofie, after reading his blog and all the MSM reports, particularly those about him posting on forums several years back about his experimentation with bath salt type drugs, I will not be jumping on the McAfee is innocent and persecuted train just yet.

It is possible that Belize is just as corrupt as many say AND that McAfee has more than one screw loose and may be a bad dude. The two are not mutually exclusive in my mind.

 

[Peliman]

Anything written by McAfee and posted online should be taken with a grain of salt:



I'm of the opinion that McAfee is not in Belize. He did not alter his appearance. This is all a "cat and mouse game."


http://www.fastcompany.com/1615167/plagued-lawsuits-mcafee-founder-hunts-cures-belize

I tend to agree, he seems to be taunting the government of Belize. He should seek the help of a lawyer. I'm not believing what he's putting out, he may not even be in Belize.

Here's another link FWIW, if someone wants to sleuth further.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/11/murder-suspect-john-mcafee-bath-salts-experiments