How Did David Carradine Die? Thailand Police Say Death is "Abnormal"

David Carradine 1936-2009.

Reports from Bangkok, Thailand, where Kung Fu star David Carradine died say his death is "abnormal".

Thailand forensic police are a little confused as to how the Kill Bill cult action hero may have died in his Bangkok hotel room on Wednesday night/Thursday morning local time.

The body of David Carradine was found by a hotel housekeeper, half naked and apparently hanged from a curtin cord on the floor of a his hotel room closet.

72-year-old David Carradine was found at 11 am Thursday morning. David Carradine was staying in Thailand for a movie he was starring in, Stretch.

David Carradine was staying in a luxury suite at the five-star Swisshotel Park Nai Lert Hotel. Carradine had been in Thailand and at the hotel since June 2.

"David Carradine's death was an unusual one," said head of Bangkok's Chulalongkorn Hospital autopsy section, Nanthana Sirisap, who had examined the body of the cult Hollywood star.

"The case is abnormal," Nanthana Sirisap told Bangkok newspaper, The Nation.

The Bangkok newspaper speculated that Carradine may have accidentally died when he attempted a bizarre adult game involving the restriction of oxygen in order to achieved heightened orgasm.

A Delux room at the Bangkok hotel where David Carradine was found.

Carradine may have died attempting a technique known as auto-erotic asphyxiation - where heightened pleasure during sexual activity is achieved, the paper said.

The bizarre turn in the story of the death of Hollywood actor and hero to millions, David Carradine, is similar to those cirumstances surrounding the unexplained death of Australian rocker Michael Hutchence.

The INXS rock singer who was found hanged in a Sydney hotel room in 1997 and auto-erotic asphyxiation was rumoured to be the cause.

Update: Thai police now admit Carradine was found in his hotel room with a rope rapped around his neck and testicles.

"There was a rope tied around his neck and another rope tied at his sex organ, and the two ropes were tied together and hung in the closet," Bangkok police commander, Lieutenant General Worapong Siewpreecha told media.

"Under these circumstances we cannot be sure that he committed suicide but he may have died from masturbation."











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