A new Netflix documentary premiered yesterday (August 24) about the bizarre life story of McAfee Anti-Virus software creator John McAfee. The feature-length documentary called Running With The Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee shows hours of unseen footage of an increasingly paranoid man on the run.
Based on true events, the former presidential candidate goes into hiding in Guatemala after being implicated in the murder of his neighbour in Belize in 2012. After evading the US authorities, McAfee, 75, was discovered hanged in a Spanish police cell 2021 whilst facing extradition for ten counts of tax evasion and seven counts of fraud in the US.
The Netflix TV show delves deep into the life of the outlandish tech mogul throwing up many conspiracies theories along the way. These include murdering his own father and faking his own death.
