Wanted McAfee taunts police with blog posts
Former tech-company founder says he is still around town, but living in disguise
Software company founder John McAfee says he’s hiding in plain sight, wearing a disguise as he watches police and reporters stake out his home – and blogging about it all.
In phones interviews McAfee has never said where he’s hiding. But in his blog this week, he claims to have disguised himself as a grungy street peddler and a foul-mouthed German tourist, and claims he approached an Associated Press reporter outside his staked-out home on the Caribbean island of Ambergris Caye, and almost sold the reporter a wood carving.
It’s hard to separate fact from fiction in the whole account, but one thing is clear – seldom has there been more detailed coverage of someone on the run since O.J. Simpson led police on a low-speed chase in 1994, and much of that detail is being provided by McAfee himself.
The internet-savvy former tech-company founder has talked about his case with reporters via e-mail, on mobile phone calls from undisclosed locations, and now in his blog, “Who is McAfee? The official blog of John McAfee,” whose creation he announced on Saturday.
“Anyone who would like to read the blog and check out the references, will understand my reluctance to turn myself in,” he said, referring to his distrust of the Belizean government and particularly its Gang Suppression Unit, a quasi-military police squad. McAfee also described life on the run as “very fearful” and said it has “not been comfortable”.