Carradine may have died from sex act: Thai
police
BANGKOK (AFP) - - A Thai police commander said Friday
that US actor David Carradine, found hanged in his Bangkok hotel
room, may have died from a sex act gone wrong.
"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 United States 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."
--AFP
