A few weeks ago, founder of McAfee Security John McAfee (he no longer has any connection to the company), was named by Belizean authorities as a "person of interest" in the murder of another American expatriate also living in the Central American country. Since then, McAfee has been on the lam, somehow managing to evade authorities in a country with 300,000 residents living in an area slightly smaller than Massachusetts.

After rumors of his arrest on his own website over the weekend, McAfee now reports that he is "safe" and outside of Belize for the moment, but he plans on returning. "I apologize for the silence, and misdirection," he wrote on his own blog on Monday morning. "I am currently safe and in the company of two intrepid journalist [sic] from Vice Magazine, and, of course, Sam," using the name of his 20-year-old female companion.

The New York Times aptly described McAfee's blog in a lengthy profile over the weekend as "Amnesty International meets Hugh Hefner as played by Jean Valjean, the unfairly hounded peasant of 'Les Misérables'."

Since leaving the well-known security firm that he helped to create, McAfee, 67, has been on a strange odyssey of adventurism, entrepreneurialism and pranks that may verge on hucksterism.

The bottom line, as many reporters who have tried to follow this story and all the weirdness that preceded it, is that it's hard to know how much of McAfee's story is true.

"We are not in Belize, but not quite out of the woods yet. I will do a more detailed posting later today if all goes well," McAfee continued. "My 'double,' carrying on a North Korean passport under my name, was in fact detained in Mexico for pre-planned misbehavior, but due to indifference on the part of authorities was evicted from the jail and was unable to serve his intended purpose in our exit plan. He is now safely out of Mexico."

Assuming McAfee can be taken at his word, combined with confirmation from Time reporter Sam Gustin that McAfee left Belize by land, means that McAfee is either in Mexico or Guatemala, the only two countries that border it.

Still, McAfee managed to find time to speak with CNN on Friday in Belize, replete with changing phone numbers and passphrases ("Sorry I'm late." / "That's OK, we are waiting for our co-worker.") "It hasn't been a lot of fun," McAfee told CNN. "I miss my prior life. Much of it has been deprivation. No baths, poor food."