David Carradine: Thai coroner investigates cause of death

David Carradine: Thai coroner investigates cause of death

On Friday Thai coroners completed an autopsy on the body of actor David Carradine . It was done one  day after the star of 1970s-era U.S. television show "Kung Fu" was found naked and hanging dead in his lavish hotel room.

Sources have highlighted on this news of David Carradine. Coroners at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn hospital further added that they had not yet determined how the seventy two year old actor passed away and were waiting for the results of a toxicology screen. Police further added that it could take several weeks before the reason was known.

"We are now running tests and then we will decide the cause of death." "This certainly was not a natural cause of death." The hospital's chief coroner, Nantana Sirisap, told this to the reporters of a news agency.

A maid found Carradine hanging naked by a rope in the closet of his hotel suite at the plush Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel on Thursday. The  police has revealed this information.

Initial reports gave the indication of  a possible suicide. However his family representatives in Los Angeles have repeatedly said that the actor was not suicidal.

Representatives for Carradine also declined to put forth comment on media reports that the death was related to autoerotic asphyxiation, which involved intentionally cutting off oxygen supply for strong sexual arousal. A former lawyer for Carradine said that she suspected a foul play.

However the investigators in Bangkok said that there was no indication that other people had been in the room where Carradine was staying while shooting the movie titled "Stretch." Police and forensics teams were still gathering evidence as of Friday.

"We are currently interviewing witnesses, film crew, hotel staff and the last person who saw David alive."Lumpini police chief Colonel Somprasong Yentuam told this to the reporters of the news agency.

David continued, "So far, no one saw anyone enter David's room around the estimated time of death."

A hotel employee, who gave her name as Oi, said that Carradine was in good spirits in the final few hours he was seen alive.

She added, "He was in the hotel lobby, relaxing and playing the piano -- he looked very happy."

Tiffany Smith of Carradine's Los Angeles-based talent manager Binder & Assoc. repeated assertions that the family of the actor believed that Carradine could not have committed suicide.

"It's not where he is in his life right now, he was completely full of life, extremely happy to be going to Bangkok and doing this film," added David.

Smith has declined comment on media reports about the possibility of an accidental death by the autoerotic asphyxiation, thereby pending the police report.

When long-time family friend and Carradine's former lawyer Vicki Roberts, who represented the actor in a past divorce, was asked whether he had a history of using autoerotic asphyxiation, she replied, "No, absolutely not."

Roberts added that the details of the way the actor was found in his hotel caused her to suspect foul play, but she conceded she was only reading news accounts out of Bangkok.

In the meantime  Smith added that  Carradine's family was making arrangements to have his body flown back to Los Angeles, but as of Friday there were no details on when that might occur.

Carradine is married to Annie Bierman and he comes from a family of performers, including actor Keith Carradine, whose father is the late character actor John Carradine.

He enjoyed a long career on Broadway, TV and in movies such as Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" and "Kill Bill: Vol. 2." But he was most famous for his role in "Kung Fu," playing a martial arts specialist known as Caine who wandered through the American Old West seeking wisdom and beating up bad guys.