Carradine "Gasper" theory confirmed.

So it's true. The Bangkok Post (warning, graphic)

"American actor David Carradine might have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS) director Porntip Rojanasunan said on Friday morning.

The 72-year-old actor's body was found inside a closet in his suite in Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel about 11am on Thursday.

One end of a shoelace was tied around his penis and the other end fastened around his neck, while his hands were bound with a cord which was also tied around his neck.

He could have been be trying auto-erotic asphyxiation and may have suffocated during the act, Kunying Porntip said.

She said other evidence supporting this theory included a penis shrine inside his room.

She did not believe anyone else was involved, but admitted she could not be 100 per cent sure.

Carradine arrived in Bangkok a few days ago to star in a new movie, Strand."

Of course with the way the story has trickled out piece by piece, the notion that David was alone when he died, should not be entirely trusted. Murdered? Maybe. Accidental death with a participant? Also a maybe. In my book someone who flirts with death for a thrill gets what they bargained for. What a legacy to be remembered by.

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David Carradine a "Gasper?" (UPDATED)

Someone or several someones continue to aggressively, and apparently correctly update "Wikipedia's" David Carradine page.

"On June 4, 2009, Carradine was found dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel on Wireless Road, near Sukhumvit, in central Bangkok, Thailand. A police official said Carradine was found hanging by a rope in the room's closet. Meanwhile, the Bangkok Post reported that his body was found curled up in the wardrobe with a shoelace tied around his penis and neck.

Khunying Pornthip Rojanasunand, a Thai forensic pathologist and Director of Forensic Science Institute, stated the incident met four of the criteria for accidental death involving Autoerotic asphyxiation. Pol Lt Gen Worapong Chewprecha, Commander of the Metropolitan Police, remarked that the closed circuit television installed within the hotel supported the theory that no other persons were involved with the death. Carradine's representative and family members told the press that they believed the death to be accidental and not a suicide.

Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot his latest movie, Stretch, but the film crew were aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant on June 3."

This continues to be interesting because very little of what appears new on the "Wikipedia" page has turned out to be false, if any of it has. It has been updated regularly and to my knowledge, as I said, accurately.

So if David's death was NOT a suicide, but accidental. how did he end up wrapped in curtain cords and naked/half naked, hanging in his closet with no signs of a struggle, dead?

The only answer I know of is Erotic Asphyxiation, something I alluded to earlier but tried to stay away from. The initial reports of David's death, if scanned and combined together, including information found at the Wikipedia site all suggested a kinky something that was being hidden. Relatives claiming that a man "hanging" in his closet half to fully naked and wrapped in the cord that killed him are pretty much saying that David was into this kind of abnormal sexual gratification.

It just about shouts too that someone else was there, and something went wrong. It's hard to wrap yourself up in a rope and hang yourself accidentally. It sounds like people in his family kind know what went on in David's life.

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