--- title: "Various People Are Fighting Over John McAfee’s Body, Which Is Stuck in a Spanish Morgue" description: "According to MarketWatch, John McAfee's body is the subject of a dramatic legal conflict involving his daughter, his ex-wife, and Barcelona investigators." date: "2022-02-02" modified: "2022-02-02" authors: - name: "Jon Christian" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/john-mcafee-body" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "cybersecurity" - "death" - "john mcafee" - "the digest" --- # Various People Are Fighting Over John McAfee’s Body, Which Is Stuck in a Spanish Morgue ![According to MarketWatch, John McAfee's body is the subject of a dramatic legal conflict involving his daughter, his ex-wife, and Barcelona investigators.]() *\Image: Adalberto ROQUE/AFP/Futurism\* ## Body Load The stranger-than-fiction saga of cybersecurity mogul John McAfee is still developing more than seven months after he was [found dead in a Spanish prison cell]() last year. Now, [according to *MarketWatch*](), McAfee's body is the subject of a dramatic legal conflict involving his daughter, his ex-wife, and Barcelona investigators. "To my knowledge, they have done nothing to the body," Joy Athanasiou, the lawyer representing McAfee's daughter, told *MarketWatch*. "It has been sitting there \[in a freezer\] all these months." "This is one of the strangest cases I have seen in my career," added Nishay Sanan, who was McAfee's lawyer back when he was alive. ## Mortal Remains McAfee lived a famously colorful life, gaining prominence by starting McAfee AntiVirus before jumping into antics including [claiming he'd been poisoned](), [spending years on the run]() and [launching a bizarre presidential bid](), and [threatening to unmask the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin](), among many other fictional-sounding endeavors. The drama even continued after he died last year, with his Instagram account [posting a posthumous image]() that seemed to suggest his involvement in a ridiculous conspiracy theory. And now, according to *MarketWatch*'s reporting, his body seems to be in indeterminate limbo in Spain. But even in death, those close to McAfee warned the outlet, it's possible that not as is what it seems. "It was usually smoke and mirrors with John," said Kyle Sandler, who managed McAfee's 2016 presidential run but was later convicted of stealing money from investors, told the publication from prison. **Read more:** [‘His end is a void of unknown’ — John McAfee’s body is stuck in a Spanish prison morgue as a fight rages over his legacy]() \[*MarketWatch*\] **More on John McAfee:** [*John McAfee's Manager Threatens to Release Secret Data "Payloads"*]() ## Author I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()