Posted on 08/25/2022 2:48:00 PM PDT by dynachrome
McAfee was widely reported to have hanged himself inside a Spanish jail in June 2021 while awaiting US extradition on tax evasion charges. But, according to his Belizean ex-girlfriend Samantha Herrera, he faked his own death, moved to Texas and is still alive.
“I don’t know if I should say, but two weeks ago, after his death, I got a call from Texas: ‘It’s me, John. I paid off people to pretend that I am dead, but I am not dead,'” Herrera claims in the Netflix documentary “Running With the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee,” out Wednesday.
Herrera says he told her that “there are only three persons in this world that know I’m still alive” and then asked her to run away with him.
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He’s hiding with Elvis now. He must be over 80 years old, and having access to funds, even with a new identity seems to be getting harder all the time as governments clamp down.
Excepting, of course, ours with respect to illegal aliens.
I’d love to see one of these type of faked death stories come true. 😂
I don’t really care about John McAfee’s state of animation; I was looking for something else.
He was another one who supposedly had a “dead man’s switch”.
Maybe he could run for president on the Libertarian Party ticket.
I faked my own death to get out of that Columbia House record thingy, back in the 80s.
I think she’s just making this up for attention. I wish he was alive though.
If he is really dead he will be busy voting for Democrats.
I'm waiting for Andy Kaufman to come back, impersonating Elvis.
Yep, and he’s working for Taylor Sheridan on the four sixes ranch.
When I was a kid I signed my dog up for that, he turned out to be a terrible deadbeat...
I just saw him in Lampasas with DB Cooper and Jimmy Hoffa sharing picture of Shiner Bock! The waiter was refusing Cooper’s moldy fifty dollar bills.
>>>>Columbia House record thingy<<<<
I vividly recall that club in the 70s and, IIRC, it cost me 10 cents or something along those lines.
I joined and realized the quality of the LPs were very, very bad as they were most likely using 3rd and 4th generation copies of “masters” to press the vinyl...at best.
They'll file a claim with compound interest against your estate one day.
Now try to sleep at night.
Now that was the absolute worst. I joined as a 16 year old back in 1978. It was the old "8 cassettes/LPs for a penny" ruse. So I taped a penny to the return envelope, wrote the codes down for my eight albums (i.e. LLP-443789 for the "Some Girls" album by The Rolling Stones) and made perhaps the biggest mistake in my entire life.
From that point on, Columbia House would automatically send me the "selection of the month" every month unless I responded within 7 days that I did not want it. But that was harder then it sounds because mail moved slow in those days.
So more times than not, I ended up getting something like Slim Whitman's Greatest Hits or something from Pablo Cruise or Captain & Tennille. I was stuck with it at the list price of $16.98. Plus tax. Plus shipping and handling. Total bill was around $20 which was big money at the time. I was making $2.65 an hour bagging groceries so that full priced album I didn't want and would never listen to was almost two part time shifts at the grocery store.
You had to purchase something like fifteen full priced albums over two years to get out of the club. But even after that, any efforts to cancel your membership were resisted. I got on the phone with them and they told me they would ship me six additional albums at no charge if I gave them another chance. Like a sucker, I accepted and I was reset back to the 15 full-priced albums to get out of the club.
Then I went to boot camp for the Marines in 1981 and I gave my mother explicit instructions to watch the mail and return any Columbia House mailings right away so they would not send me album of the month.
So I graduate from boot camp and come home to albums from Air Supply, Englebert Humperdinck and Spyro Gyra.
I was so pissed.
“He was another one who supposedly had a “dead man’s switch”.”
They must have found the switch first.
Maybe his firewall failed
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