Actor David Carradine, whose body was found hanging in a closet of his Bangkok hotel room on June 4, did not commit suicide, according to celebrity pathologist Michael Baden.
The Carradine family hired Baden, former chief medical examiner for New York, to perform a second autopsy when Thai officials had completed their own. He has not, however, determined exactly how and why Carradine, 72, died.
“To reach a final determination as to the cause and the manner of death we must wait for further information from Thailand, as to the scene findings and the completion of the crime laboratory and toxicology studies that are still being performed,” Baden wrote in a statement released to the Associated Press by Carradine’s actor brothers, Keith and Robert.
Because David Carradine was found with cords tied around his neck, genitals, and hands, and bolstered by two ex-wives who claim he had outside-the-box sexual proclivities, there has been widespread public speculation that he was an accidental fatality of autoerotic asphyxiation.
A veteran of many hit movies, as well as a number of not so successful films, Carradine was best known as the star of the popular 1970s TV series “Kung Fu.”
Baden’s credits include the HBO TV show “Autopsy.”
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