John McAfee Serial Killer Ghost Writer Alex Cody Foster | Mike Drop Episode 219

Mike Ritland
Dec 23, 2024
John McAfee Serial Killer Ghost Writer Alex Cody Foster | Mike Drop Episode 219
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLW4UqqZSUs
Alex Cody Foster is one of the most successful Ghost Writers in the world. Having penned eight #1 Amazon best sellers, he's one of the most sought-after Ghosts in the field - a reputation that would eventually attract the attention of the highly controversial crypto magnate John McAfee (and the soft subject of our previous Episode 183 with John's Head of Security Jimmy Watson). Alex's travels with Team McAfee would go on to inspire his book 'The Man Who Hacked The World: A Ghostwriter's Descent Into Madness with John McAfee', along with inspiring the Netflix documentary 'Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee' in which Alex himself would also star.

Since then, Alex has continued writing, dancing along illicit lines with the story of Owen Hanson in 'The California Kid: From USC Golden Boy to International Drug Kingpin' along with his investigations into serial killers and murder theories. Recently he's taken a keen interest in one criminal conspiracy - the Smiley Face Murders, a serial killer theory alleging that the drowning of 45 men across the United States are actually the collected works of by a shadowy group of murderous individuals. It all makes for a killer conversation - now if only we had the perfect ghost to punch it up.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
09:54 - Obsessed with the Craft
19:29 - Waking Up in Different Timezones
28:39 - Growing Up in the Woods on the Cape
37:13 - Nearly Expelled from High School
51:57 - Going Homeless to Hitchhike Across the Country
01:18:51 - A Homeless Documentarian on the Streets of L.A.
01:33:49 - How to Shoot a Documentary With No Money
01:47:31 - Meeting My First Serial Killer
02:02:00 - I Remember When I Lost My Mind
02:26:30 - A Memoir in Maine
02:33:43 - Ghost Writing in Bar Harbor
02:44:08 - Finding the Next James Patterson
02:50:14 - Then I Met John McAfee (Thanks to Jimmy Watson)
03:06:33 - Team McAfee Falls Apart
03:17:59 - The Man Who Predicted John McAfee (& Jeffrey Epstein's) Demise
03:25:21 - On Body Language - Detecting Killers with Predatory Intent
03:35:25 - Stepping into the World of Serial Killers
03:57:33 - Regarding the Smiley Face Killers
04:15:05 - Starting WHSK - We Hunt Serial Killers
04:19:01 - Writing the Owen Hanson Story in 'The California Kid'

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Website: https://www.alexfosterghostwriter.com/

Instagram: / alexfosterghostwriter

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