Actor David Carradine Found Hanged

Dizzyblonde

The Kill Bill actor David Carradine has been found hanged in a Bangkok hotel room. He was always an odd character but this is very sad.
RIP

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Rev Hellfire

From the registers report it sounds more like misadventure than suicide.

big b

RIP David, I enjoyed your work.

GlindaGale

Sad news, what a legend.

My Da will be devastated, he loved Kung Fu.

stovelid

Always remember him as the evil plantation owner in North and South too.

ms flywheel

Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found naked by a hotel maid in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm

Ross_Mahon

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

From the registers report it sounds more like misadventure than suicide.

'Police said he was found "with a rope around his neck and genitals", according to a BBC report this afternoon. The Nation notes that preliminary investigations found "no sign of fighting and assaults" and that Carradine hanged himself'

JP Liz

Kung Fu star David Carradine might have died after an auto-erotic asphyxiation game went wrong, according to police.
The 72-year-old was found dead by a maid in a Bangkok hotel room on Thursday. He was discovered hanging naked in a wardrobe with ropes tied around his neck and genitals.
Speaking to reporters, Thai Police Lt. Gen. Worapong Chrewprecha said: "The two ropes were tied together. It is unclear whether he committed suicide or not or he died of suffocation or heart failure due to an orgasm."
He added that production crew told police that Carradine had been drinking beer "from morning until evening the day before he was found dead".
The results of an autopsy completed earlier today have yet to be released - however, officials have speculated that the cause of death might have been accidental suffocation.
Friends and family of the star were quick to dismiss early speculation that he had taken his own life, with his personal manager saying: "He really appreciated everything life has to give...and that's not something David would ever do to himself."
She added that he was "in good spirits" when he left for Thailand on May 29 and was looking forward to starting work on Stretch.
Carradine rose to fame as the martial arts expert Kwai Chang Caine in the Kung Fu series. He went on to appear in over one hunded films, including the recent Quentin Tarantino saga Kill Bill.
He is survived by his wife and four children.

RIP

SalthillGuy

He was one of the best and always looked the part..... very sad.

Roaster

Are you Hutchence in disguise? Are you Hutchence, Are you Hutchence in disguise....

Red Sleeping Beauty

I wasn't too fussed when I heard about this . Kung Fu should've been Bruce Lee's show.
But anyways, odd way to go.

mediafreak

sad story. rest in peace, old man.

Raffo

so he died in a perverted sex act gone horribly wrong...??
with a "rope tied around his sex organ" as the post morten said....

What a way to go out.......

Red Sleeping Beauty

Raffo wrote: »

so he died in a perverted sex act gone horribly wrong...??
with a "rope tied around his sex organ" as the post morten said....

What a way to go out.......

It might be perverse to you but that doesn't mean it was perverted to him... or was it ?

JP Liz

Source WENN

A medical examiner who carried out an autopsy on David Carradine's body insists the actor did not commit suicide.
The Kill Bill star, 72, was found hanging in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room last month. Some local reports suggested he took his own life, while Thai police believe he died accidentally during a dangerous solo sex game involving auto-erotic asphyxiation - where victims achieve heightened sexual pleasure by restricting their air supply.
An autopsy was conducted in Thailand shortly after the actor's death, but his family hired forensic specialist Dr. Michael Baden to re-examine Carradine's body in his native America.
Baden has now revealed details of his findings, which back up his opinion that the star did not take his own life. The medical expert is adamant the way Carradine's body was tied up rules out suicide.
He says, "The cause of death was asphyxiation, an inability to breathe. Now why that happened is still what we're working on.
"He didn't die of natural causes, and he didn't die of suicidal causes from the nature of the ligatures around the body, so that leaves some kind of accidental death."
Baden will release a full report of his findings later this month and is currently awaiting news from the Thai police and security staff at the hotel to help rule out the possibility another person could have been involved in Carradine's death.