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 to

US aid 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,

Cellebrite, 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 thirty-one

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 23rd,

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 ninety-eight

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

American 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?