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Four thoughts strike me on reading this story.

The first is that this is the only reasonable outcome. The second is that this clearly speaks of a man who for whatever reason embarked upon a - possibly unplanned - course of action that was not only clearly profoundly wrong but also conspicuously inexplicable. The third is that this is likely to have become both self-perpetuating and increasingly psychologically injurious. The fourth arises from the second and third, and is an overwhelming sense of frustration and sadness that an evidently intelligent person did not at an earlier stage blow the whistle on himself and seek help. Why didn't he stop digging?

Terribly, terribly sad.