John McAfee Not ‘Captured’ in Belize Authorities Confirm Despite Fugitive's Post on Blog

The ballad of John McAfee just keeps getting weirder. Contrary to an announcement on his blog, fugitive software mogul John McAfee was apparently not captured by police at the Belize -Mexico border, reported the Daily Mail.

The 67-year-old founder of the McAfee anti-virus company has spent weeks on the run from authorities in Belize, but has maintained a media presence through his blog and numerous cell phone interviews from undisclosed locations with publications.

"We have received an unconfirmed report that John McAfee has been captured at the border of Belize and Mexico," his official blog, whoismcafee.com announced Saturday, Dec. 1.

McAfee's website had been launched by the tech innovator to "counter what he sees as erroneous claims by the media or authorities about him," as AFP notes. It had previously promised to provide more information about McAfee when "it became available."

Three weeks ago, authorities in the small Belizean town where expatriate McAfee lives, discovered his neighbor, 52-year old American businessman Gregory Faull, lying dead in a pool of blood with a bullet wound to the head, said the Daily Mail. Only days before that, police had been called the McAfee's beachfront residence after the eccentric millionaire shot four of his dogs, claiming they needed to be put out of their misery, because "unknown assailants" had poisoned them.

All of this is apparently why McAfee is currently on the lam. According to Belizean authorities, they aren't charging him with murder; they only want to question McAfee about the murder as he is a "person of interest," Belize police spokesman Raphael Martinez said.

"Rather than submit to questioning... McAfee freaked out and declared that he would be killed if taken into custody by Belizean authorities," reported Time.

A spokesman for McAfee who talked with Time over the phone claimed to not know where his client was, but did acknowledge that McAfee is on the run.

"We have no idea where he is," the McAfee spokesman told Time. "But it seemed very unsafe for him to remain in Belize."

"That is not true," said Officer Martinez of the claim on McAfee's blog. "He is not in police custody."

Belize national police confirmed to the Daily Mail on Sunday, Dec. 2 that the whereabouts of the multimillionaire software developer are still unknown, and that authorities have issued no arrest warrant in the murder of McAfee's neighbor Faull.

A source at the U.S. Embassy in Belize speaking anonymously to reporters said that friends of McAfee denied he'd been captured and that they and the police had no information on a possible arrest.

Earlier Saturday, CNN aired an interview with McAfee where the software magnet explained "I will certainly not turn myself in, and I will certainly not quit fighting," he told CNN. He added that running from the law had taken a toll on his previously extravagant standard of living. "It hasn't been a lot of fun," he said. "I miss my prior life. Much of it has been deprivation. No baths, poor food."

After losing an estimated $96 million due to bad investments, McAfee relocated to Belize in 2008, purchasing several tracts of property, and soon launched an herbal drug venture.

That's when things began to really get out of hand, says Time. McAfee embarked on a mad-capped hedonistic lifestyle that involved a "retinue of prostitutes," an exotic and incredibly volatile designer drug called MPVD ("bath salts"), and a personal security force armed with shotguns. Science journalist Jeff Wise, who has travelled to see McAfee in Belize, said his most recent visit "really scared the hell out of me."

"Around the time his herbal drug plan collapsed, he started to get really heavily into this kind of synthetic, hallucinogenic hyper-aphrodisiac," Wise told FoxNews.com. "Everyone was scared of McAfee. He was walking around the beach carrying a gun."

McAfee founded his namesake software company in 1987, initially running it out of his home in California. The expatriate sold his stake in McAfee Associates in 1994. His net worth is estimated to have been $100 million at its peak.