It's been over two years now, and Janice McAfee is still trying to make sense of it all. She lives in Spain, hiding somewhere, doing odd jobs to survive. Friends saved her from the streets, but she can't really move forward. Why? Because she still doesn't know exactly what happened to her husband.



When John McAfee died in a prison in Barcelona, everything stopped for her. A Catalan court ruled in September: suicide. Case closed. Except Janice doesn't really believe it, or at least she needs answers. Spanish authorities refuse to share the autopsy results. She has tried, begged, but nothing. She wants an independent autopsy to really find out what happened, but it costs 30,000 euros. She doesn't have that money.

The $100 million fortune John had after leaving his antivirus company in 1994? Disappeared. At the time of his death, it was estimated at only 4 million. In 2019, he claimed to have nothing, unable to pay a $25 million wrongful death judgment. The following year, he was arrested for tax evasion. Authorities said he earned $11 million promoting cryptocurrencies. From his cell, he tweets to his millions of followers: "I have nothing. But I have no regrets."

Janice, she inherited nothing. No will, no hiding places she has access to. Her husband deliberately kept her away from certain things to protect her. But now, she's asking questions. She talks about the details she was told: when they found John in his cell, he still had a pulse, he was breathing. Weak, but present. The doctors supposedly tried CPR without even removing what was around his neck. Janice, who trained as a nurse, finds that strange.

"I don't know if he committed suicide," she says. "We talked every day. I don't understand how it ended like that." She's not seeking justice, she makes that clear. She just wants to know. She wants to see the report. She wants to honor John's last wish: to be cremated. His body is still at the prison morgue.

After his death, Janice was afraid. John told her that the authorities were after him, not her. But she was still scared. He had disclosed 31 terabytes of information. She doesn't know where it is, or if it's real. Now, she feels a bit safer. She has nothing to hide, she doesn't even really know what he had.

The Netflix documentary released last year, "Walking with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee," depicted them as fugitives. But Janice thinks that's not the real story. It's just journalists trying to sensationalize. The real question is why John was willing to become a fugitive, why she stayed with him. "People forget quickly," she says. "I just hope we remember him properly."

All she wants now is to cremate her husband, remember him with love, and move on. She deserves at least that. Everyone deserves a chance to turn the page.
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