I got to sit down with Janice McAfee for an exclusive interview, and honestly, it was one of those conversations that stays with you. Two and a half years after her husband John died in a Barcelona prison, she's still trying to piece together what actually happened to him.

What struck me most was how little closure she's had. Despite a Catalan court ruling in 2023 that John died by suicide, Janice hasn't been allowed to see the autopsy. She's been stuck in Spain this whole time, doing whatever work she can find to survive. Friends have basically kept her from homelessness. That's the reality for the widow of someone who was once worth over $100 million.

Yeah, you read that right. When John McAfee stepped away from the antivirus company bearing his name back in 1994, he had serious money. But by the time he died, his net worth at death was estimated at just $4 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. The rest? Gone. He claimed in 2019 he had nothing and couldn't even pay a $25 million judgment. Then came the tax evasion charges - authorities said he and his team pulled in $11 million promoting cryptocurrencies. From prison, he told his million Twitter followers he had zero hidden crypto stashed anywhere.

What's wild is that Janice has no access to anything. No will, no estate, nothing. And because of U.S. judgments against him, she's not inheriting squat. There are whispers about secret caches and documents, but John deliberately kept her in the dark to protect her. Smart move, maybe, but it left her with nothing.

But here's what really bothers her - she doesn't actually know how he died. She talked to him every single day after he was imprisoned. When they found him in his cell with a ligature around his neck, the prison report says he still had a pulse. He was breathing. But then she points out something that makes your skin crawl: the CPR they supposedly attempted - they never removed the ligature first. As someone trained in CPR, she knows that's not how it works. You clear the airways immediately. You don't leave something tight around someone's neck while trying to revive them.

An independent autopsy could answer these questions, but it costs 30,000 euros. Money she doesn't have. She's been trying to get the official autopsy released for years now, but Spanish authorities won't budge.

I asked her about the obvious narrative - that John was facing extradition to the U.S., that American authorities were coming for him, that a proud man might have seen the end of the road. But she shut that down. They never discussed it. What she does know is that he wanted to be cremated, and his body is still sitting in the morgue where he died. Two years later.

The Netflix doc 'Running with the Devil' came out and portrayed them as fugitives, but Janice thinks that misses the point entirely. It was more about the filmmakers trying to sensationalize things than actually understanding why John felt like he had to live that way.

What's clear is that Janice just wants answers. Not revenge, not justice - just the truth about what happened. And she wants to fulfill John's wishes to cremate him. She wants people to remember him properly, not as a punchline or a cautionary tale. She's not asking for much, really. Just closure.

The whole thing is a reminder of how quickly fortunes can disappear - not just the $100 million, but the peace of mind that comes with knowing what really happened to someone you loved. Janice McAfee deserves at least that much.