Antivirus software mogul John McAfee wanted for murder

John McAfee, the millionaire genius behind the super popular McAfee antivirus programs, is a leading suspect in the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull who was found dead at his home in Belize Sunday. According to reports, the two men had been at odds for weeks with Faul filing a report against McAfee just days before he was killed.

The  head of the national police force’s Gang Suppression Unit in Belize told the press that Faull, whose friends claim was a well-liked builder, was gunned down on November 10th at his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye. He was found floating face up in a pool of blood. On Wednesday, November 7, Faull had filed a formal complaint against McAfee with the mayor’s office, alleging that McAfee had fired off guns and displayed “roguish behavior.”

Below is the official statement from Belize police:

On Sunday the 11th November, 2012 at 8:00am acting upon information received, San Pedro Police visited 5 ¾ miles North of San Pedro Town where they saw 52 year old U.S National Mr. GREGORY VIANT FAULL, of the said address, lying face up in a pool of blood with an apparent gunshot wound on the upper rear part of his head apparently dead. Initial investigation revealed that on the said date at 7:20am LUARA TUN, 39years, Belizean Housekeeper of Boca Del Rio Area, San Pedro Town went to the house of Mr. Faull to do her daily chores when she saw him laying inside of the hall motionless, Faull was last seen alive around 10:00pm on 10.11.12 and he lived alone. No signs of forced entry was seen, A (1) laptop computer brand and serial number unknown and (1) I-Phone was discovered missing. The body was found in the hall of the upper flat of the house. A single luger brand 9 mm expended shells was found at the first stairs leading up to the upper flat of the building. The body of Faull was taken to KHMH Morgue where it awaits a Post Mortem Examination. Police have not established a motive so far but are following several leads.

Several people close to the situation claim to have witnessed McAfee’s odd behavior in recent months. According to research done by Gizmodo.com, McAfee had been posting on the Russian message board Bluelight describing “his attempts to purify the psychoactive compounds colloquially known as ‘bath salts.'”

From Gizmodo:

Writing under the name “stuffmonger,” a handle he has used on other online message boards, McAfee posted more than 200 times over the next nine months about his ongoing quest to purify psychoactive drugs from compounds commercially available over the internet. “I’m a huge fan of MDPV,” he wrote. “I think it’s the finest drug ever conceived, not just for the indescribable hypersexuality, but also for the smooth euphoria and mild comedown.”

Elsewhere, he described his pursuit of “super perv powder” and warned about the dangers of handling the freebase version of the drug: “I had visual and auditory hallucinations and the worst paranoia of my life.” He recommended that the most effective way to take a dose is via rectal insertion, a procedure known as “plugging,” writing: “Measure your dose, apply a small amount of saliva to just the tip of your middle finger, press it against the dose, insert. Doesn’t really hurt as much as it sounds. We’re in an arena (drugs/libido) that I navigate as well as anyone on the planet here. If you take my advice about this (may sound gross to some of you perhaps), you will be well rewarded.”

McAfee, who sold his antivirus programs to Intel in 2010 for 7 billion, is currently “on the run from murder charges.”