True Crime Vault: The Rise, Fall and Rise of John McAfee

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True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The inventor of McAfee anti-virus software gives a no-holds-barred interview about his very colorful life. He had fame and fortune. Then, he said, he lost it all. But did he? An interlude in Central America, questions about a murder. And now, he’s back. Originally Broadcast 05/12/2017 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Deborah Roberts. Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault. Each week we reach back into our archives and bring you a story we found unforgettable.
0:11.0	Only a true psychopath could do this.
0:14.0	Pull of blood coming from his head.
0:16.0	Somebody had been paid to kill me.
0:18.0	Why would you want your husband killed?
0:20.0	Take a listen. A listen.
0:23.0	Coming up.
0:27.0	John McAfee, one of the most famous and infamous entrepreneurs in the world.
0:32.0	A computer virus is written by a... and infamous entrepreneurs in the world.
0:32.8	A computer virus is written by a hacker.
0:35.8	In the cybersecurity community, there are legends.
0:39.0	He falls into that category.
0:41.4	A household name on millions of computers with a fortune one, then
0:46.1	lost. How to kiss nearly a hundred million dollars goodbye. Setting up a new life and new business in Central America.
0:55.0	That story continues to get even more strange.
0:59.0	How did he go from Millionaire to this?
1:02.0	I'm pretty confident that he ordered the murderer. Was he behind
1:06.7	the killing of his beachside neighbor who hated his barking dogs?
1:10.5	Greg had told him that he was going to poison the dogs.
1:13.0	Of course he's the main suspect.
1:15.0	I mean, do you order a hit on him?
1:16.0	Of course not, please.
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