At FDs court appearance, NP said they could account for FDs whereabouts most of the day on the 24th and that he had an early morning meeting with an attorney at his home that day.(NP also mentioned a phone call to Greece). Not to trust anything NP says, but this was said on the record in court. I have not heard it mentioned since.
How early would that meeting had to have been, given the short time frame for JD to leave for her appointments in NYC? 7 or 7:30 am? Was it just incredible bad luck that FD arrived just as JD was getting into her car to leave to NY? Thus the encounter in the garage?
If the early morning meeting did happen, it could be that FD realized he was cornered, no way out (note that one of his “divorce attorneys” named in the media, MR, is a specialist in employment law, not divorce and custody, as JDs motion for contempt dealt with FD hiding his business assets, so maybe FD realized at that meeting he had no way out). And this drove him into a rage and he immediately went down to take her out.
I have not heard NP mention anything more about the early morning attorney meeting since then, so maybe it was just NP blowing smoke, but he said it in court on the record. MR is also one of the attorneys who has asked to be dismissed from representing FD, so perhaps if there was such a meeting that morning, something FD said makes MR, in retrospect, need to withdraw (“for good cause”). Assuming it was MR he met with, he had other attorneys as well.
All MOO, more hypotheses, but I’ve been wondering about the morning meeting.