The Mysterious Death of John McAfee

What would you say if I told you a man was killed

in prison under extremely strange circumstances?

That his home was demolished right after his death?

And that the search and rescue team was from Israel?

That man was John McAfee, and he created one of the first commercial antivirus programs.

He later became a fugitive, a presidential candidate, and a man who paid for his own private security

because he believed rogue intelligence agencies and deep state governments were coming for him.

He even got a tattoo that referenced to a dark web assassination market where people bet on when public figures would be killed.

McAfee publicly warned that if he ever appeared to hang himself,

it would be murder, not suicide.

He also opposed USA to Israel.

In 2016, during the San Bernardino shooting case, the FBI demanded Apple build a backdoor into an iPhone they couldn't unlock.

When the FBI later said they bypassed the phone without Apple's help, With the assistance of the Israeli cyber-intelligence firm Cellbrite,

McAfee reached out to Forbes,

where he publicly protested and pointed out the implications.

McAfee also claimed to have massive amounts of damaging data,

tweeting about holding 31 terabytes of corrupted data that he said exposed global government corruption.

He was arrested soon after this for what the government said was tax evasion,

but McAfee insisted it was their way of isolating him so they could kill him.

And on June 23, 2021, a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States.

Hours later, he was found hanging in his prison cell.

His attorney said he had spoken with McAfee constantly and saw no sign the man intended to take his own life.

His widow met with him shortly before his death.

She insists he was not suicidal and claims he was still breathing when the guards found him.

Spanish authorities performed a single autopsy.

They refused an independent second examination requested by the family.

His body remained in a morgue refrigerator for an entire year before it was finally released and quickly cremated before a second autopsy could be performed.

The very next day, a condominium building in Surfside, Florida partially collapsed, killing 98 people.

Persistent rumors claimed John McAfee had stored hard drives of intelligence in a unit there.

A foreign military search and rescue team was invited onto a marathon. soil for this domestic disaster.

That team came from, you guessed it, the Israel Defense Force Homefront Command in Tel Aviv.

After McAfee's death, dark web forums and independent military blogs published theories linking his demise to international espionage networks, including Israel's Mossad.

But any evidence that could have proved these claims would have been recovered by Israeli recovery efforts.

This is one of those cases that is too strange to just file away and forget.

For the official story, they call it a suicide.

But what do you think happened to John McAfee?

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