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

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. 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' 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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