Posted on 02/04/2022 3:03:07 PM PST by algore
Even in death, the John McAfee saga grows stranger.
More than seven months after he died in a Spanish jail, McAfee’s body remains in a prison morgue freezer somewhere in or near Barcelona. His daughter and ex-wife waged a legal fight over the body and a Spanish judge is continuing to conduct an investigation over the cause of his death.
At the same time, the first of what is expected to be several attempts to detail the hard-to-believe exploits of the antivirus-software pioneer has arrived, a book whose contents are vigorously denied by McAfee’s family.
It is unclear to those who were closest to McAfee why exactly his body has not yet been released. Two family factions had separately petitioned a Spanish court for possession of the body. The McAfee family, meanwhile, is still awaiting a Spanish judge’s final investigation report on the cause of his death. While deaths in the U.S. are determined by coroners who issue reports within a few months, authorities in Spain issue death reports under a court system led by a judge. Emails to the Spanish court were not answered after several days.
The convoluted case of John McAfee’s body and contentious fight over facts about his last years is a fitting bookend to a fantastical and eccentric life that continues to enrapture his followers. Much like when he was alive, it is hard to separate what is real from the fever dream that was McAfee’s final decade.
“It was usually smoke and mirrors with John,” Kyle Sandler told MarketWatch in a phone interview from an Arkansas prison. Sandler, who managed the British-born McAfee’s bid for the 2016 U.S. presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, is serving the final year of a five-year sentence for stealing about $1.9 million from investors while working with McAfee
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RIP
Update: John McAfee provided the following statement in an email to SiliconANGLE:
The day of my arrest I obtained a prescription for Xanax. People are trying to kill me and while most people might sail through such a situation unperturbed, I myself at time’s feel stressed. The Doctor said Xanax would calm me down. Unfortunately. It calmed me down too much.
The Police acted responsibly, politely and with restraint. At the sound of gunshots I naturally assumed that my ex wife had caught up with me and returned fire. Who wouldn’t? The only casualty was a 50 mph speed limit sign the intervened between myself and presumed ex wife. I can’t shoot for shit on Xanax.
https://siliconangle.com/2015/08/05/exclusive-mcafee-didnt-shoot-the-sheriff-says-henderson-county/
John McAfee didn’t hang himself...
John McAfee’s body lies a-moldering in the morgue...
In the fwiw department, McAfee did kill himself.
5.56mm
Didn’t.
Sorry.
5.56mm
Just killing the Americans that won’t kill themselves.
Freezing will alter much ability to perform an adequate autopsy to identify anything except gunshot evidence or toxic/ poisoning.
And it would seem that there is little interest in anything other than “ who gets to cremate?”
Maybe he is on ice so they can revive him one day. It was all the rage back in the 1970s.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cryonics-putting-your-future-plans-for-life-on-ice/
“I can’t shoot for shit on Xanax.”
Great epitaph.
Pretty sure he never wanted to be a corpsicle
Besos, gates, soros, I absolutely believe they do
NUMLOCK
Is this a story about Biden, 0bama or Buttplug?
Reminds of the story of what happened to Eric Fleming’s body (Eric Fleming - Gil Favor of the Rawhide TV show) when he died in South America filming a movie. Nobody came to claim it! He finally ended up being buried in a cemetery next to a college campus in Peru or Chile.
The claim in Spain is played mainly by the dames.
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