The Final Hours of John McAfee

BARCELONA—John McAfee, whose unusual life ranged from brilliant tech engineer to extravagant global fugitive to eccentric jailbird, was strangely reclusive before prison officials in Spain found him dead around 6 p.m. local time—hanging by the neck in his cell in an apparent suicide.After the 75-year-old received official word at 4 p.m. yesterday that he would be extradited to the U.S. to face tax-evasion charges, McAfee reportedly asked jail workers at the Barcelona prison Brians 2, located in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires, if he could be alone for a few hours in his cell, according to the Spanish daily Diario AS.Normally, a prisoner deemed suicidal would be obliged to be accompanied by another inmate. And in the second case, the court said it did not see that McAfee was suffering from “serious health problems”—an issue that would at any rate only be taken into account “at the moment that the extradition is carried out.”While his death is being considered a suicide, prison workers were nevertheless shocked that McAfee had taken his life.