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You'Re listening to an Ono Media podcast. Hey everyone, welcome back to the into the Dark podcast. I'm your host Peyton Moreland. I am so glad you are here listening to this show. If you didn't know, this is a true crime show that also ventures into everything dark and spooky. We usually start the show by jumping into my 10 seconds, which is just a thing we do to start off on a lighter foot. But before I do that, please please please please please please share this show or episode with someone that you love. Okay? It's an easy way to support the show. I will love you forever. Please, anyone, anyone who you think would love it, please send it to them. Please share it. Okay, for my 10 seconds it is almost if you didn't know is one of my favorite days of the year. I just think all of the traditions that I do on the 4th of July is literally a combination of my favorite things and so I'm really excited. Obviously this is besides Halloween, but Halloween's like its own. I mean to me Halloween's tier like a different level. It's not even a holiday for me. Okay? It's just like a different a different day. If you usually watch my Twitch streams, I'm trying so hard to get back into it. I'm sorry that I have been a little absent, but it hasn't been because I can't get out of bed anymore. It is because I have found a couple new hobbies at home that are taking up my time. I talked about it before, but I've been playing Fortnite on my iPad which just makes it so much easier and accessible to jump on. So I've been playing it a lot more and then also I have started coloring on my iPad as well, which is so fun. Okay. If there is one thing that I can pride myself on that I would give as a suggestion to you to give your life a boost, because that's what it's done for me. Find hobbies at home that make you happy and it might take a minute for you to do them and then realize that you like them. But I have so many little different things I can do at home. I am never bored. I. I am never bored at home. In fact, it's make it. It's kind of made it hard for me to leave my house because I do so many things I love at home that it's made it hard for me to want to leave. I really have to be wanting where I'm going in order for the sacrifice to be worth it. So yeah, I've talked about doing the lawn, the long nighttime routine. I take a really long time. I know that's not a luxury everyone can afford, but it's something I love. It's loving myself. It makes me feel good. And I just have a whole bunch of little hobbies. So even if it's that you can pick up at home that you look forward to, I love that for you. That being said, let's get into today's episode now. Trigger Warning this episode includes discussions of suicide, domestic violence, and violence against animals. I will give you another warning, so please listen with care. Now, I don't think I need to tell you how important a good antivirus program is. It keeps your computers safe from malware and hackers. So it might actually surprise you to hear that up until around 1987, antivirus programs didn't exist. Every time anyone went on the Internet, they were taking a risk. But that year, the first online security program hit the market, and it was called McAfee. And that name probably sounds familiar to you because it is a well known brand. Even Today, people respect McAfee software because it keeps them safe. Or at least it keeps them safe online. But no matter how good your computer's security is, that can't stop violence in the real world. And that is a fact that became all too real for a particular housekeeper back on November 11, 2012. Now, their identity hasn't been released to the public, so for simplicity, I'm going to refer to this housekeeper as Jules. Now, they worked in a beautiful beach house on an island off the shores of Belize. And it was an upscale area where a lot of tourists would come to sit in the sand and swim in the ocean. And the house itself was also nice and expensive. Well, when Jules arrived at work that day, they found the door open of this beach house, and it was unlocked, but that wasn't unusual. On hot evenings, the homeowner liked to sleep with the door open so the ocean breeze could keep the house cool. It was more efficient, honestly, than running an air conditioner. And the neighborhood had a very low crime rate, so the people on the street didn't worry too much about break ins. So Jules didn't think anything of it. They let themselves in and got to work cleaning the house. But when they went up to the second floor, they walked into a scene straight from a nightmare. Jules found a dead man lying in a pool of his own blood in this beach house in Belize. He was face up, and Jules couldn't see any fatal injuries on the man, but that was because he had actually been shot in the back of the head. There were also burn marks all over his body, which police later determined were from a taser. So clearly, this dead man had been tortured and then murdered, probably during the night. And Jules actually recognized the dead man as their boss, the man who lived in this beach house, Gregory Fall. Now, I know we're in Belize, but Gregory was a 52 year old American. He had spent most of his adult life in Florida, working in home construction, which was a great job because Gregory loved building and fixing things. He had ever since he was young. He had bought his first saw when he was just 10 or 11 years old. And according to his parents, he actually traded his bike for it because the saw just was more valuable to him. And then he used it to make wooden crafts. And his love of building and fixing things only grew from there. So after he graduated from high school, Gregory enlisted in the navy and had a chance to see the world while also using his skills. At the end of his tour, he came back to Florida. He actually got married, and he found a job building things at Disney World. It was a chance for him to experiment and try new things. His job involved a lot of variety that he wouldn't typically get from just building houses. And Gregory was successful enough to eventually open his own business. He grows up, his life goes on, and he's making lots of money and had several employees who reported to him. But as time went on, his good luck actually began to run out. He ended up going through a very contentious divorce. His soon to Be ex wife accused him of domestic violence. Gregory always disputed the allegations and insisted that he had never seriously hurt her. But he also admitted that he had a temper and he had shoved her during an argument. Now, I want to be clear here. A light shove is still not okay. That is still domestic violence. But the point is that the charges were dropped and he wasn't convicted of anything. Still, Gregory, after this, wanted a fresh start, somewhere new. And when a friend offered to take him on a trip, vacation to Belize, Gregory was thrilled to get out of the United States. And then he fell in love with the Caribbean nation. And not too long before his visit, a hurricane had actually swept through the region and destroyed a bunch of houses. So Gregory bought one of them and got to work rebuilding it. And once it was stable and standing, he moved in. Now, his plan was that once the house was in a good enough condition, he would rent it out to vacationers to make a little extra money. Very common in tourist areas. But the house wasn't to that point yet. And so he was still living in it full time on November 11, the day he was found murdered in said house. Now, as soon as Gregory's housekeeper found him, they called the police and investigators rushed to the scene. And they confirmed there were no signs of forced entry. It seemed clear that the killer had come in through the open, unlocked door. Now, Gregory's laptop and his iPhone were missing, but besides that, nothing valuable had been taken. And his home was very neat and tidy overall. In a robbery, you would expect the intruder to open drawers and closets, searching for things and not close them. So they quickly ruled robbery out as a motive, and instead, they thought the murder of Gregory was why this person was there. So their next step was to question Gregory's neighbors and friends to see if he had any enemies. And all of them gave the same answer. They were sure that Gregory had actually been killed by one of his neighbors, a 67 year old man named John McAfee. Now, yes, this is the man who founded the McAfee Antivirus Company back in 1987. 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Now, the problem was that John hired a head instructor who actually didn't have a full pilot's license, which is illegal and also very dangerous because the person who was teaching people how to fly wasn't properly qualified for the job. And then in 2006, one of John's students was flying with the head instructor when the plane went down and they both died in the crash. And once their families learned about the school and that it actually wasn't being run very ethically, they sued and won. And John was ordered to pay them $2.5 million in damages. Now, he has this money, but he doesn't pay. Basically, he just ignored the lawsuit and pretended it never happened. He even posted on Twitter that he disagreed with the judge's ruling and he wasn't going to comply with it. I don't like you, okay? Anyways, except the courts don't actually go after him or force him to pay. They let him ignore the ruling, and he basically got away with breaking the law and contributing to someone's wrongful death. Now, that wasn't the only time he lost a lawsuit or the only time that he refused to pay fines that the courts imposed on him. It also wasn't the only time that he got into serious legal trouble, which I will discuss more later. All of this to say John wanted to get a fresh start. And he ended up moving to Belize in 2008. He ended up living in a house on the same street as Gregory, running from the law. Okay? And their homes weren't right next to each other. There were a few properties between the two, but all of the houses on that land, like I said, had been destroyed in the hurricane and they hadn't been rebuilt yet. So there was some open space between their homes, but they were still next Door neighbors, if that makes sense. And according to other people on the block, it didn't take long for John to become very paranoid. Now, it may have been because allegedly, John broke even more laws in his new home in Belize. So he ran from the law in America, moves to Belize, and begins breaking the law again. In April of 2012, the police actually raided his house, and afterward they charged him with illegal weapons possession and with running a meth ring. I don't know how credible those charges are because they were dropped before it ever went to trial. To hear John McAfee tell it, he was doing other illegal things that got him into even hotter water. Supposedly around this time, he developed a new computer program that could hack into any device on earth, even very secure computers with strong protections like those used by top military and intelligence officials. So John is claiming that he created this new thing and he knew government secrets. And he believed that different officials, including the leaders of Belize, wanted to murder him for what he knew. He complained to his neighbors that police officers were surveilling him from the bushes outside of his home and tailing him everywhere he went. John also claimed that the supposed meth bust was actually an attempt on the government's part to just intimidate him. Now, I don't know if he actually did develop this spyware or if it was as powerful as he claimed. It is interesting that he developed a security wear and then a spyware, but I digress. John really seemed to genuinely fear for his life. According to all his neighbors, he hired armed security guards to patrol his property. He adopted nine vicious attack dogs, which was a problem because John's house was very close to a public beach. People crossed through his backyard all of the time on their way down to the water. And each time anyone set foot near his property, not even on it, but near it, his dogs and his guards would close in on them. On more than one occasion, the watchmen approached people on the beach after dark. They shined flashlights into those guests eyes and intimidated them. Sometimes they would even release the safeties on their guns just to be scary. All because people were on a public beach in the evening, minding their own business and not hurting anyone. I want to be clear. John's dogs were not kept behind a fence. They've roamed this neighborhood freely, and they were very aggressive against anyone they came across. This included people who were just walking down the street or working or relaxing in their own yards or strolling in the sand. It was impossible to say when a pack of aggressive dogs would come Barreling down on them, barking, snapping or snarling. And John's neighbors hated this. They thought it was only a matter of time before someone got hurt by John's dogs. In fact, three separate people who lived on this beach street came forward to say that John's dogs had actually bitten them. And they knew of at least two occasions where they had attacked beachgoers, too. Then one night in the fall of 2012, they actually ambushed a third tourist. It was a young woman or girl. I'm not sure her exact age. I also don't know exactly what happened to her. All I know is that Gregory, the murder victim, saw the dog attack, and he jumped in to try to help the woman. Now, once she was safe and taken care of, he lost it. This was the last straw for him. But to be clear, everyone on this street was sick of the dog situation, and they wanted a change. Gregory himself had personally complained to John before about the dog's constant barking, but nobody had set any boundaries around the attacks, and Gregory decided it was time to stop holding his tongue and have a stern conversation with his neighbor. Sometime on the week of November 4th, Gregory confronted John and told him, hey, it is time. Get your dogs under control. As for what happened after the conversation, this is up for debate. According to Gregory, John flew into a rage. He killed some or all of his own dogs right there. And then he walked up and down the beach with a gun in his hand, screaming at tourists. His behavior was just so erratic and disturbing. It honestly logically doesn't make sense that Gregory wasn't sure how to respond. But John told his neighbors a different story. He said Gregory had threatened to poison his dogs if he didn't get them under control. And then not long after that conversation, his dogs got very sick. So the dogs die, but we're not sure how. John said he had no choice but to kill them eventually as an act of mercy because there was no way to treat the poison. And now nobody knows for sure. Did he just kill them as an act of rage and to prove a point? Or were they actually poisoned by a neighbor, and then he put them out of their misery? So, of course, this means now, once police come, Gregory has been murdered, they need to interview John once they talk to all of the neighbors. But when they went to his gated house, which was still surrounded by armed guards, he wasn't there. In fact, he hadn't actually been seen since before Gregory's murder. The police found plenty of other incriminating evidence, though. This included a huge stockpile of weapons and they found an underage girl who had been living with him. Now, the investigators also learned that several of John's armed guards didn't have the proper licenses to even own or carry weapons. And on top of that, it didn't take the police too long to realize that John wasn't just missing. He was hiding from them. It wasn't something they just suspected. They knew for a fact that he had fled. After all, he was posting about it online. Okay. John at this point, was regularly talking to American journalists. And in his posts, emails, and phone calls, John openly admitted that he was trying to escape from the police in Belize. But according to him, he wasn't a murderer. He hadn't done anything wrong. He, as he tells it, was being framed. Now, remember, before this point, John had claimed that federal officials wanted to assassinate him because he had stolen state secrets. And now he said that the government had hired hitmen to kill him for knowing too much, but they had gotten the wrong address. So allegedly, he's saying the hitmen were actually supposed to go to his house and shoot him, but by mistake, they had gone to his neighbor Gregory's home and murdered him. John also argued that he was now being framed for the government's mistake, saying that he had committed Gregory's homicide. And if the police ever caught up to him, he says he is sure they would find a way to kill him, too. Now, according to John, he had no motive to kill Gregory whatsoever. He downplayed the conflicts that had happened between them about the dogs. In fact, John claimed that in the five years that they had been neighbors, he and Gregory had only exchanged about 15 words in total. You may be wondering, if John didn't kill Gregory, how did he know to flee before police arrived to question him? Like it happened. Very it was. They found him dead and then talked to all of the neighbors. Well, John said that he was at home when Gregory's body was found. And when officers came and knocked on his door, he panicked and hid. According to John, he ran into his backyard and buried himself in the sand. And he also claimed that he held a cardboard box over his head while he was underground. Now, this is quite the tale, but he says, I did this so I could breathe. I needed to make a little pocket of air. I don't know how realistic this story is, but in his statements, all of which were publicly published, John admitted that he eventually left his home to stay in an undisclosed location. He was in hiding, and he had dyed his hair to be less recognizable, as he put it. Quote, I have Modified my appearance in a radical fashion. I'll probably look like a murderer. Unfortunately, now, the police also issued public statements of their own because John is going public with this. So they reassured John and everyone else they cared about the law in due process. They weren't planning on hurting or killing John or anybody else. Now still, John eventually fled the country for about a month. Nobody knew exactly where he was. But around mid December, John was spotted in Guatemala. And shortly after that, sometime before the New Year, John actually returned back to the United States. And once he was back in the US he didn't go on the run or into hiding. He arrived under his own name, looking like himself. He was completely open about his identity and his location. And I think it's important to keep in mind John at this point still hasn't been charged with Gregory's murder. He hadn't even been named an official suspect. He was the one that was getting on public platforms and kind of naming himself as a suspect. So as far as the authorities were concerned, John was wanted for questioning, but that's it. There were no grounds to have him extradited back to Belize, which meant he was free to go back to living his life. And that is exactly what he did for the next year. He didn't hide, but he also didn't get arrested. The murder investigation went cold, with no new leads and no suspects ever being named. Well, I think it's, you know, needless to say, Gregory's family was frustrated with this situation. It kind of just felt like Gregory had been forgotten about. They wanted him to receive justice.