RIP David, how very sad

Yep, differing account, but most are consistent with the hanging story

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Carradine was found dead early this morning local time at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel in Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, according to Michael Turner, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy. He was found hanging from a rope in what appeared to be a suicide, Pirom Chantrapirom, deputy chief of the Lumpini police station, said in a telephone interview.


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ET has new details regarding the autopsy of David Carradine, who was found dead in his Bangkok hotel room Thursday morning.
ET spoke with a representative at Chulalongkorn Hospital, where David's body was taken for an autopsy. Early reports indicate the star may have taken his own life. Thai newspaper The Nation quotes a police source as saying he was found hanged.
The Chulalongkorn Hospital tells ET that initial autopsy results will be released in two days.
The actor was best known for his roles in the 1970s TV Western "Kung Fu" and Quentin Tarantino's two 'Kill Bill' movies. He was 72.


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David Carradine, star of the 1970s television series Kung Fu and Quentin Tarantino's 2003 motion picture Kill Bill, has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room.

BBC is quoting Thai police as saying that Carradine, 72, was found sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his body and neck.

Brew wrote on Jun 4^th, 2009 at 3:25pm:

Now the Thai police are speculating that it may have been accidental:

By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writer Michael Casey, Associated Press Writer   Fri Jun 5, 4:09 pm ET

BANGKOK – Police are speculating that accidental suffocation, not suicide, may have caused the death of American cult actor David Carradine, whose body was found in a hotel closet in the Thai capital with a rope tied to his neck, wrist and genitals.

Celebrity blogs and social networking Web sites were abuzz with news of the death of Carradine — best known for the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu." The circumstances under which he died have led to speculation that the 72-year-old actor may have been engaged in a dangerous form of sex play known as auto-erotic asphyxiation.

It is only speculation amongst the entertainment community, but I hear ya.

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June 05, 2009
Article from:  Agence France-Presse
US actor David Carradine, found hanged in his Bangkok hotel room, may have died from a sex act gone wrong, a Thai police commander said today.

“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,'' Lieutenant General Worapong Siewpreecha told reporters.

“Under these circumstances we cannot be sure that he committed suicide but he may have died from masturbation,” he said.

Carradine, star of 1970s TV series “Kung Fu'' and the “Kill Bill” movies, was found naked and hanging in a closet in his hotel room by a housekeeper on Thursday morning. He was 72.
He was in the Thai capital to shoot a film called “Stretch”.

Worapong said police had questioned the production crew working on the film on the day of Carradine's death, who told them the actor “drank beer from morning until evening the day before he was found dead,” he said.

Police said an autopsy report was expected within the next day, while forensic police had dusted the hotel room and were testing a drink found in Carradine's room.

They have also asked the US embassy for permission to question his wife, Worapong said.

Forensic expert Porntip Rojanasunan, who works with Thailand's Ministry of Justice, said the death appeared to be caused by an “auto-erotic accident”.

“It's not suicide or murder but he died ... after masturbation,” Porntip told AFP.

Police officer Pirom Janthapirom told AFP that there was no sign of bruising on Carradine's body. Security cameras showed no one going in or out of Carradine's room, which had been locked from the inside, he said.

The producer of Stretch, French firm MK2, said Carradine was found at the Nai Lert Park hotel three days before the end of filming for the movie.

A spokesman for the company said Carradine's death “could be accidental”.