John McAfee Wanted for Murder
CHO: Welcome back. John McAfee, does that ring a bell? Your computer could be a McAfee product. The millionaire is now wanted for questioning in the murder of an American ex-patriot in Belize. McAfee left the Internet security firm he founded back in 1994, and after that, he moved to Belize four years ago. Police say the victim, Gregory fall, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the back of his head at his home over the weekend. In an interview with "Wired" magazine, he says he knows nothing about the death of his neighbor and he says, when police came to search his property, he hid by burying himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head so he could breathe. He says, if they find him, they will kill him. Richard Roth is following all the developments for us and he joins me now. This is such a bizarre story, Richard. What's the latest?</s>RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: It's not the only wild story going around these days. Well, according to the writer for "Wired," he had another phone interview earlier today with McAfee and he says in these tweets that McAfee is saying, "Power was just cut to the house I'm in; I think this is it." And in a later tweet, "I will not turn myself in. The police have set up roadblocks across the country to trap me in." He is described as a person of interest, no formal charges against him. The police telling CNN over the phone that someone was detained for questioning, but no formal charges made against anyone. Now, another writer, Jeff Wise, told CNN earlier today that when he talked again to McAfee and spent a lot of time with him he and others who came in contact with this former security expert were apprehensive.</s>JEFF WISE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY COLUMNIST: I'll put it this way. Listen, we're all innocent until proven guilty, but the people in his community were frightened of him. I was frightened. The last time I visited him, he invited me to spend the night at his house, stay for dinner, and yet the hairs on the back of my neck were up.</s>ROTH: He definitely had entanglements, contentious arguments with a lot of people there in Belize, but no formal accusations yet.</s>CHO: Yes, I read that interview. It's bizarre what he says. He thinks he's being framed by the government. Meanwhile, he also says he loves his country, doesn't want to leave Belize. He's believed to be inside the country, right, Richard?</s>ROTH: Not that far from Mexico, if he decided he didn't love Belize that much.</s>CHO: Tell me more about his relationship with the victim. Because when you're looking at these cases, obviously, if he's the prime suspect, you have to consider motive. Would he have had a motive?</s>ROTH: Well, sounds like a familiar neighborly argument. Barking dogs, it may have come down to that. We may not know for sure. The neighbor shot in the head complained that the dogs of McAfee were very loud, barking, had trespassed on his property, McAfee said that the dogs were poisoned Friday night according to one of the interviews he did with "Wired."</s>CHO: And the government says that's categorically not true.</s>ROTH: Right.</s>CHO: Richard Roth following the developments for us. Thank you very much.