ANTIVIRUS guru John McAfee was constantly on the run, claiming he feared for his life and that the US government was out to get him.
Spookily, his Instagram account posted a mysterious ‘Q’ just minutes after his suicide death in prison in Spain was reported.
What is the John McAfee QAnon conspiracy theory?
Within 30 minutes of a news source reporting on the death of John McAfee in a prison cell in Spain, his Instagram uploaded a photo of the capital letter Q.
The 75-year-old technology magnate is said to have committed suicide in prison Barcelonaaccording to the local newspaper El Pais.
And the ‘Q’ photo on his social media appears to be a reference to QANON, the bizarre conspiracy theory linked to the fate of former President Donald Trump.
McAfee’s latest Instagram post was shared without a caption and showed a black letter “Q” on a white background, the Independent reported.
The letter ‘Q’ represents a refuted and discredited far-right conspiracy theory, known as QANON, about pedophiles running a global child sex trafficking ring.
Instagram users responded to the post by commenting: ‘RIP’, ‘this man didn’t commit suicide’, ‘Q’ and ‘Epstein 2.0’.
According to the news outlet, McAfee once shared a photo of himself in 2019 with an altered image of Jeffrey Epstein – who was found dead in a prison cell that same year.
He wrote next to the image: ‘I never said Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. I said he didn’t commit suicide. Not the same.
‘It could still be alive. It could never exist. Maybe murdered. Don’t know. All I know is that he didn’t commit suicide.’
Epstein was arrested in July 2019, just a month before his death, and charged with sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underage girls.
Furthermore, McAfee once claimed that if he were ever found dead by suicide, he would not have committed suicide.
In 2019, McAfee appeared to show off a tattoo that said “$whackd” in a tweet while blaming US officials for targeting him.
“I’m getting subtle messages from US officials that basically say, ‘We’re coming after McAfee! We’re going to kill ourselves,'” he wrote.
‘I got a tattoo today, just in case. If I was going to kill myself, I didn’t. I’ve been hit. Check my right arm.”
In 2018, Sun Online delved into the world of the then armed ‘fugitive’ who feared he was being watched following allegations of murder and rape.
He fled Central American police after they named him a ‘person of interest’ in the death of his neighbor in Belize.
Who was John McAfee?
McAfee was born on September 18, 1945 in Cinderford, United Kingdom.
He later moved to the US, where he grew up in Virginia.
He was a computer programmer and businessman.
As a young man he developed a love for drugs, especially LSD.
According to Wired, he dropped acid in the morning before going to work.
On another occasion he experimented with a psychedelic drug called DMT. He ended up snorting the entire bag of the substance.
“Within an hour my mind was shattered,” he said, adding that he went to work but couldn’t concentrate and ended up hiding behind a garbage can and hearing voices.
During this time, around 1983, he was snorting lines of cocaine daily at work and selling it to his subordinates at the engineering firm he worked for.
He also spent the afternoon popping barbiturate quaaludes and drinking whiskey.
He eventually sobered up and in the mid-1980s got a job as a software engineer for Lockheed.
He died on June 23, 2021.
What was John McAfee’s net worth?
According to Net Worth of CelebritiesBefore he died, John McAfee had an estimated net worth of approximately $4 million.
His main source of wealth is said to be his career as a technology entrepreneur and businessman.