I've really no doubt that FD's gassing himself was intended to end his life and not a manipulative attempt for sympathy. Not only was his game up-- but he was about to be presented to the Court as a fraud to the same Judge that had already threatened to double his bond after he pounced on JD's memorial.
I believe FD knew that he was going to jail on Monday -- with no chance of redeeming himself --given his inability to manipulate from behind bars.
I suspect that FD had a heads up prior to Monday that his bond was under scrutiny. He obviously knew that he misrepresented his collateral to the surety on his bond application, and I think he was hearing chatter.
As to chatter, there's a lot of greed in the high bond industry. It was reported that before the State Insurance regulators contacted Palmetto Surety to advise that FD's collateral was believed defective, another bonding company had called the State Insurance fraud line-- suggesting that Fotis bond needed to be looked at.
I suspect that just days before the emergency hearing, FD and AC probably went into overdrive on rumors of the audit of his application, and I think AC attempted to smooth things over with Palmetto Surety by reportedly signing a 3 Mil promissory note with them. I think they hoped that by shoring up FD's bond collateral with AC's note, it would put an end to the investigation of his bond application, and the whole thing would go away.
Fortunately -- the ploy did not work. FD gambled and lost big time. No matter how much money (belonging to others) FD threw at his self-created problem, it was over. Knowing FD's reputation, it was probably on the advice of counsel that Palmetto made the immediate decision to pull their bond on Monday. They didn't want any of FD/NP's courtroom drama and only needed to present FD's fraudulent bond application and be done.
To stay out of jail, FD was going to need immediate cash for the nonrefundable bondsman fee --before they'd even look at perfecting his collateral. We already know that AC had been supporting FD for months, and she already threw away $400k+ on the last nonrefundable bond fee. FD tapped her out.
I think what's worse here is that FD had no remorse over murdering his wife and the mother of his children. That was simply the means to an end. I think FD's only remorse was that he ran out of financial supply and was about to be financially unmasked before the world. For FD, that would be worse than death.
MOO