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Update:

We have just heard from John.

Amy and Samantha have safely crossed the border into Honduras, and are in an undisclosed village there, where they will remain until such time as they are brought to the United States. John shall post an update sometime next week.

 

94 Responses to “Update on Amy and Samantha”

  2. Hi Sam! Thanks for checking in with us. Glad to know you are ok. I’m sure you and John will be together soon and have many happy years ahead of you. Keep smiling. Merry Christmas to you both!

    “Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” ~Michael Leunig

  3. There are more posts coming on the corruption in Belize. You’re seeing articles about John relaxing after having been in a Guatemalan cell, as a reminder. You would buy clothes and eat sushi too, after that. Stay tuned, and have patience.. -C

  4. Hi Craig,
    Still looking at finishing the book by the end of Febuary, if I can manage it. Possibly published a month or so later. If I finish sooner, that date could get moved up a bit. Someone whose real name I shall not mention, stole some of John’s diaries and sold them to Gizmodo, which contained my original photographs I had lent to John. These were meant for a private audience, and caused me to go back and revise / rewrite a lot of the book. John stopped his future sales, by releasing the other available diary to Wired magazine directly, preventing this person from making another fast buck from stolen material. What I’m amazed at, is that John didn’t sue this person. By the way, the person’s handle on the private message board was “Lev”, and now whenever someone mentions something they would rather not be spread around in public, the thing to say is “Please don’t LEV me on this..” Ha.

    You are correct, that drawing is of Amy E. Both characters in that panel are being revised slightly in terms of style, but you will recognize all of the players..!

    Huge regards,
    Chad

  5. Chad – Will the Hinterland ever be published? If so what is the ETA?
    P.S. Is this Amy Emshwiller in the panel
    http://twitter.com/chad_essley/status/272028028803088384/photo/1

  6. Sam! 🙂 So good to hear from you. My heart broke too, just looking at that picture of you outside the airport. Things are moving much slower than we had hoped, but an article I just read said John is working hard trying to get you 3 back together. We all know if he sets his mind to something, it’s going to happen, so I am very confident you guys will be reunited soon. Keep smiling & stay safe.

  7. I have a question that maybe someone can answer, would John be able to transfer the deed to his properties in Belize to a US citizen that could in turn sell those properties for him? If he is only wanted for questioning then I would think they would not be able to freeze his properties? Anyone have any insiite on this?

  8. Whoa – who is that guy in the blue shirt and the sunglasses on his head in the background on the picture showing John on the stretcher (Sun article)??? Beautiful!

  9. I hope you’re transferring your assets out of Belize, and arranging for the sale of your properties.

  10. John has not quit. A big update is coming soon! -Chad

  11. I thought this was supposed to be a blog about belize corruption and helping the poor people of belize………..now all we read about is John buying clothes, eating sushi, ect ect…… John went on and on about how he wanted to help expose all the problems in Belize. This blog has become very disappointing.

  13. Samantha vanegas
    December 21, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    Hey Sam here thank you all for all the great comments everyone who has beenon the blog trought out all of this you should a lot f love and care and i really think that this will be better as soon as we are properly safe. The smile I had on my face is not the same when John left on that plan that morning my heart was broken in millions and it left a hole in my heart the part that hurt even more is not seeing him the only thing I can do is speek to him through the phone I hope and pray he is well and to be safe and happy so thanks to everyone who were on our side good. Less andtjanks for showing you care about my safety .ia just nhurt by not seeing John I miss him. So bad and love him.thank you to all the readers love sam

  14. ExPat stuck in Belize
    December 21, 2012 at 8:01 pm

    Have you given up on bringing down the corrupt government of Belize?
    Please do not quit.
    Please bring them down along with the BTB who has been terrorizing my business for many years now.
    I am stuck and can not sell for what it is worth and BTB is almost as bad as the GSU

  15. typo above, use http.www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage
    you really have to scroll WAY down to find the story,

  16. httpL..www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage

    “I’m planning a new life with my girlfriends … in Southampton

    It seems like I am no longer allowed to cut and paste into this website, if you log onto the site though, just scroll WAY down for the story, lots of photos too — Southampton is the first city you get to if you go by boat to the U.K. Rather a gritty industrial place – but still the gateway to the UK by sea going vessel. Definitely NOT some place you would choose to live. My family lives in the U.K. and my mother had a great aversion to air travel, so I have gone to U.K. many many times via sea vessle.
    I figured there would be no easy way, without it taking years and years, to get Miss Sam into the U.S. U.K. definitely would be the quickest route, nasty nasty weather though.

  17. I think that John just wants to be with Sam and Amy for Christmas. He will put out whatever red herrings he has to in order to keep everyone safe. Plus immigration is a big hassle and takes up a lot of time. I keep thinking of the interview where he looked at the camera and said “Why are you living your lives through me?” We’ll know what we’re meant to know, when he’s ready to tell us. He’s busy, we should let him be! Merry Christmas to all of you John and friends, wherever you are 🙂

  18. Thanks Gaby! I’ve been in and out. Just looking for updates….

  19. Does your president normally meet with persons of interest in a criminal case ? I am doubtful of that, so why would you expect the head of a country ( albeit a small country) meet with the same.

  20. I hope you read this blog, John. I want to wish you a Happy Christmas. Just remember how your Mum loved it this time of year. Hope that Sam & Amy are with you to enjoy this special time. I hope that things will settle down for you and you can begin with 2013, fresh. Merry Christmas.

  21. Oh, good, Chad! That means the 3 will soon be in the U.S. and will tell us what happened.

    Hope all is ok with inmigration and can arrive safe in the US!!

  22. Sorry folks, misconfiguration on my end. Local server time properly set to Pacific time, US.

  23. Hey all: John is truly traveling at the moment, and dealing with immigration. He will be posting shortly. -Chad

  24. After seeing when my comment was just posted , it is still coming from the UK, I am 7 hours behind GMT , I am on MST…..

  25. There was a point in time when this was on GMT, UK time zone.
    There was also a point in time when we all thought we were helping someone , I guess we did and now this blog is all but forgotten. Funny how that works…..

  26. what is all this really about?

  27. ‘wonders’ John posting incognito again?

  28. It just occured to me that perhaps the reason we are getting so little information from John is that since he signed the life rights to the Candian media company, he may have some restrictions on releasing information as who would see the movie if we already know everything?It is evident that there is much strategy happening behind the scene. Just a thought.

  29. Yeah that’s the Wired photographer. The print version of Wired magazine does not contain a story about John. They made the story into an eBook so they could sell it.
    .
    Brian Finke’s photos are in that. It’s online and available for purchase from Amazon for 99 cents.
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    Amy, you should read back in the blog. John said that he was not happy with what Josh Davis had written, and here you are urging us to go read it. John mentions you here in this blog, and yes you are mentioned in the eBook because you were with John in Orange Walk when they raided the place.
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    I believe you are also mentioned in the first of the 3 part journal thingy that Jeff Wise published. Odd choice of words, all of John’s girls. John made it sound like he is in love with Sam and she is his girlfriend.

  30. Glad to see you back Connie. Just wondering if Amy or anyone can tell us how this article in Wired is different than the ebook he has already published. John? Comment? I live in France and tried to download the digital copy but the January issue is not yet available, only December which has no mention of John Mcafee. Also, what has happened to the Vice piece? Under litagation? Seems they have just dropped it. Again ,perhaps John can comment on this?

  31. the “assassin”? LOL

  32. which photographer?
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    Which article?
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    One by Josh Davis of Wired magazine? Interesting you kept in touch with the photographer and he’s sending you a “tear sheet”. You learn stuff quick.

  33. John had previously stated that he would release information that would be more detailed prior to wired”s article. What happened?

  34. lol, didn’t want you to tell me where you were 😉

  35. Wired. A guy Brian finke came down to san pedro. He took the shots.

  36. Happy holidays John, Sam, and Amy. All the bestwishes. I hope you all are safe, happy and can relax. Kind regards.

  37. What time zone is this blog on?

  38. Wired? Or Vice? I thought wired was out of the picture for a while?

  39. It’s not online. It just came out today. Besides, I don’t have a copy of the magazine, but John gave me a call and told me the news. Secondly I kept I touch with the photographer and he’s sending the tear out sheet for me. When I get to the US however, John will give me a hard copy of it.

  40. That would be tricky! Finding a current copy of Wired Magazine in a small town in Honduras.

  41. She might be talking about an article in the print edition.

  42. Is the article online? i can’t seem to locate it on the Wired website.

  43. Hey all (John mcAfee) fans, me again. The wired article about John mcAfee, came out today. You can, we’ll I hope get the magazine and read the article. It should be interesting and you all will find out about me and all of johns girl. Am one of the white girls, with my dog mellow, that was poisoned. Give me feed back on it.
    Thanks

  44. Thank you.

  45. Claudette Walker
    December 20, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    Congratulations, Amy and Samantha! Having spent time in Central America, I am aware of the corruption and murder rates. This gave me great fear for you and your friends over the last month. I never imagined when I created Jacqueline’s escape route from Central America to the US in my political thriller C Street… that someone would be forced by corruption to take a similar dangerous journey while fleeing for their life. I did not want to say a word until you made it to the USA. However, I had no doubt that you were on your way home, I would have been! Claudette Walker, Author

  46. Seems like McAfee (anti virus company), or at least those reporting on the brand have found a scapegoat in John. If you look at the graphs that show brand reputation, there were ups and downs with both McAfee and Symantec from the beginning (of what’s shown). The steady decline began around September 9th this year, indicating there was a reason other that JM ~ who wasn’t in the news then. Actually, if you look carefully, the two large increases (albeit short lived) occurred near November 12th and near December 3rd. Hmmmm…. what was going on around that time? Oh yeah, the news of the murder, and the escape to
    Guatemala. So brand reputation increased when John was in the headlines. Whatever the existing problems of McAfee Antivirus, John is not the cause of their decline from what the graph shows. It is however, a very convenient spin on the truth for all the haters to latch on to. Yet another sorry example of what passes for journalism these days. Any techies out there who know the real reason for the decline?

  47. Fox on the run
    You scream and everybody comes a running
    Take a run and hide yourself away
    Foxy on the run 🙂

    sweet

  48. Thanks to everyone about the positive comments. I do appreciate it. I don’t know about SAMs smile, cause I hang mostly alone. We are safe. And our location will not be disclosed. All you guys need to know is that we are safe and somehow still healthy.

  49. Thanks for the update. Glad to hear Sam and Amy are safe. Can’t wait to hear when they are reunited with John. Best of luck and stay safe.
    Heather

  50. I saw that article. The one where he said Amy hadn’t tried to kill him since he stopped sleeping with her. And that he was still deaf in one ear from when she tried to shoot him. I personally think John’s been having some fun with the reporters. With some truth mixed in.

  51. Ha..Now I’M unsure! I will get the facts straight from John. The point is, she was related. Ok *end discussion* -Chad disappears again. * zip! *
    😀

  52. Chad, you have made me laugh … this forum is a lot more fun now that John’s out of danger. I’m enjoying the story too.

    But I thought the official line was that she was “apparently John’s ex-wife’s sister”. Or maybe I’ve missed something about nieces? 🙂

  53. John had a .38 revolver in the picture on Wired. I’m assuming that is what he shot the dogs with.
    .
    Mr. Faull was murdered with a 9mm. It doesn’t take a forensic genius to notice the difference between a .38 bullet and a 5mm bullet. Don’t even have to look at striations for goodness sake.
    .
    Whoever shot Mr. Faull was pretty good with a gun. The neighbors complained about John’s dogs and the armed guards but I have never read anything about John shooting his gun off a lot or ever.
    .

  54. Hi Amy!!!! You are famous and I hope you and Sam stay safe. We are fans of you and especially Sam so we hope you get over hear soon (maybe you both are more famous and popular that John?) -hope we can meet you sometime soon in the very near future -best to you!

  55. No there are two Amys, one who was with John in Orange Walk and one who is the gf of the gang guy.
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    John confirmed which Amy this is in one of his interviews.

  56. lmao….The guy is obviously an idiot. He must have missed English class all through college (presuming he has a journalism degree). 😉
    He states in part “…… whose founder, John McAfee, is now wanted for an alleged murder in Belize. ” Excuse me, say what?
    Talk about a conspiracy theory…..I guess this guy doesn’t know if anyone was actually murdered. Dumb ass. Apparently the author, Jim Edwards is a Deputy Editor. WTF?

  57. same Amy, unless JM is twisting the tail of that Miami reporter he spent the afternoon with a day or so ago. But that would not be so shocking or novel now,would it?

  58. …that should be #! & #5

  59. Hi Amy, thanks for letting us know you and Sam are safe. 🙂 Hope you’re not in San Pedro Sula or Distro Central though. They came in #1 & #3 on the 50 most murderous cities!! Scary. Has Sam got her smile back? Hope so. Take care of each other, John should have you in Miami soon.

  60. Sounds like the military (Belize) needs to remove the Belize government, root out corruption, and hold new elections.

  61. Yo chad!!!

  62. I figured my last post would be deleted. I wrote about 10 positive posts….alll which were shown. I post one thats about 10% negative and it doesn’t make the cut. Not a very realstic blog. OK you read it…now you can delete it.

  63. Not MY wife’s sister. John’s niece. It isn’t my imagination.. you might be having trouble with the facts of the story so far.. 😐

  64. U cant….this is a Bourne story in the making.

  65. Lololol

  66. SK…..I love u man…….lolol

  67. Confirmed via email address. This is the real Amy guys. Safe travels you two! See you stateside!

  68. Wishing them all the best! God bless and have a great holiday! Keep good thoughts as soon this will be over and you will be reunited with your loved ones! 🙂

  69. The answer to the question, “who is Amy?” I am Amy. One of johns best friend. He has not posted much about me on this blog cause I asked him not to. I was not on the run with him the entire time, but on special occasions I was there. Am currently on the run with Sam now cause, the cops are looking for me.

    That’s it for sports.
    Thank you (John mcafee) fans.
    God bless…….adios!!!

  70. Hey John, you should sue Business Insider. in this article they are claiming that you are wanted for murder not simply wanted for questioning.

    You should write this idiot Jim Edwards a letter about this.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/look-how-confused-people-are-over-mcafee-the-alleged-killer-and-mcafee-the-antivirus-brand-2012-12

  71. John, your next life chapter should be moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor. I can totally see a new career in that for you.

  72. http://mashable.com/2012/12/19/john-mcafee-brand-hurt/

    “John McAfee’s Exploits Hurt the McAfee Brand, Study Says”

    Most tech pioneers stay at the company they founded because instead of being worth $100 Million, if they stay on with the company..they can be worth 10 Billion dollars.

    Maybe they bought him out to get rid of him and his antics?

    Too many practical jokes?

  73. Charges can always easily be faricated. These Clowns do not play Fair.

  74. Did they cross the border legally?

    Why this instead of sitting on a boat at sea with John? International waters is the real solution for all!

    Best wishes,
    GJ

  75. Agreed. But even IF the family of Faull DID speak out against BZ Police ineptitude, or inaction… It would most likely get silenced, with a substitute where the blame should be placed. In other words, GOB would much rather have the blame focused on JMc. Of Course.

  76. LOL! Let the saga continue!

  77. Belize Prime Minister Dean Barro was in Miami last week, so why not meet with John? PM Barro does not want the muder solved, as this case keeps some control of John. And if this blog does not keep the focus on criminal Belize Officials, then corruption wins —

  78. SL, I believe that was a different Amy.

  79. Unless they are wanted for aiding and abetting a fugitive? I still have not gotten my head wrapped around this whole thing yet.

  80. Makes perfect sense to me.Definitely not Belize.Guatemala won’t allow JM back in b/c he entered illegally and was deported from that state.Next up,Honduras.JM can fly in there w/o risk because he’s neither wanted for questioning there nor did he break any laws there.Happy re-union.Watch your back.Faull’s family in the loop?

  81. They are not on the lam are they? They are not wanted for anything, but I am glad. It sounds like they are safe.

  82. John any word from the Belize officals about a meeting/interview in a neutral location. Bet not. Suggest keeping your offer very public and to consider announcing you will fund their trip. We have a home in San Ignacio, but just returned to the US due to high crime and corruption. Good luck

  83. Amy is another of John’s ex-lovers. She is the one who tried to kill him. She is also friends with Samantha and fears for her life in Belize.
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    Why a village in Honduras when you could have sent them to England? They would be allowed in without the need for a visa. I’m sure they could stay out of trouble until you got there.
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    It’s just what i would do to make sure they are really out of harms way.
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    I’ve not read anything else on the murder investigation. They have had time to compare ballistics, that takes all of like 30 minutes. Running fingerprints is not hard, trying to track down the stolen property should also not have been difficult. That is why the family should be upset. Not at You but the incompetent police.

  84. wow.. I had hoped that they were already in the U.S. or U.K. !

    John…. stay away from the airport! no? 😉

  85. May I ask who is Amy?

  86. Hahahahahahahahahahaha, I bet they are Chad and I’m in Jupiter right now. The way I see it, your story with your wife’s sister sounds a lot more fun, the one about the Belizian girls have gotten old now. I have fun reading your imagination Chad, keep it up.

  87. Keep them safe and thanks for the updates-not a day goes by that many of us are thinking of them both and praying for their safety and daily needs.

  88. Great! I’m glad they are safe. That has to ease your mind a little bit knowing your girls are more out of harms way. Hope the process of getting them to states with you Goes smoothly and quickly. Must be bitter sweet to finally not be on the run or in detention to being free but missing the girls. They should be there with you enjoying Miami. I know your enjoying the freedom but not as much as you would with them by your side .. I can’t wait to see blog update saying they are on a plane to Miami . Hopefully my wish will come true then. God Speed Brotha

  89. Hope they are well & safe.

  90. Where’s John today? Hanging with any “nieces” or “sister-in-laws”

  91. Why did they cross the border into Honduras? Whats the rationale behind that? Please let us know! Let them know that we are rooting for them! We want those 20 year old’s to have a better start in life than the road they were headed down had they stayed in Belize. I imagine the life would have been…no college, just hanging around unmotivated to do anything, pregnancy, poverty, etc. etc.

  92. Sheesh, what a voyage..! Good Luck ..

  93. I wish them them the best of luck. Why is Honduras safer than Guatemala?
    A family member is going to be in route to Guatemala for holiday this week. Is there something about Guatemala in general that is not safe?

  94. good news 😉