Thai Rath

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 11:45am on Thursday, June 11th, 2009

On June 4, 2009, American movie and television actor David Carradine (December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was found dead in his room at the Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Hotel in central Bangkok, Thailand. A police official said Carradine was found hanging by a rope in the room's closet.

The Bangkok newspaper Thai Rath published a photo of Carradine's body in the hotel room. The photo is thought to have been sold to the newspaper by a forensic photographer working at the scene.

On June 5, the Carradine family lawyer Mark Geragos appeared on the CNN Larry King Live show. Attempting to deflect talk of autoeroticism and suicide, Geragos stated that David Carradine could have been murdered by a "secret sect of kung fu assassins," after it was revealed that Carradine had been attempting to uncover groups working in the martial-arts underworld.