Report: That Thing That Killed David Carradine Probably Killed Him If Michael Jackson meets David Carradine in heaven - as unlikely as that'd be - he should expect a great big hug. Why? Because thanks to Michael Jackson's death, the world has forgotten about David Carradine and how he died in a Bangkok hotel cupboard wearing a lady's wig, a set of fishnet stockings and a shoelace that was somehow tied and his neck and penis at the same time. So that's good. But David Carradine is back in the news again - a private pathologist has stated that he probably died of asphyxia. Funny, we had money on the cause being embarrassment.