Netflix’s upcoming Running with the Devil documents John McAfee on the run
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Image: John McAfee in Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix (C) 2022
Netflix's new documentary depicts the antivirus founder turned fugitive John McAfee and his life on the run after becoming a suspect in the 2012 murder of his neighbor in Belize (via Deadline). McAfee asked a film crew to document his experience as he evaded the authorities - and the Mexican cartel, apparently.
The documentary, called Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee, has video journalists thrown into the whirlwind that is McAfee's life. With guns, drugs, and alcohol in tow, the group traverses through Belize and Guatemala and somehow winds up on a boat headed to the Bahamas.
To say McAfee had an interesting history would be an understatement. After making a name for himself as the creator of the McAfee antivirus...