Masturbation, quite clearly. But that hasn’t stopped his family from putting forward the theory that he was killed. By a Kung Fu gang.
Think of the most embarrassing moment of your life. Think of it, relive it, be there right now.
Bad, huh? Now fast forward a bit and imagine your 72-year old body being found in a Bangkok hotel room closet, naked but for a shoelace tied around your shrivelled old winky.
Puts that bachelor’s party into perspective, doesn’t it?
So, no wonder that David Carradine‘s family are going with the “he was murdered” line. To be honest, if it was us we’d hope that our relatives had the decency to claim we had “drowned in a bathtub filled with tramp’s piss while cleaning the underside of Susan Boyle‘s breasts with their tongue and listening to Coldplay albums” rather than “okay, okay, they choked on the bit of string they’d been using to heighten their masturbatory experience in an Asian hotel wardrobe“.
But the family haven’t stopped at simply proposing an explanation which doesn’t involve autoerotic asphixiation. They’ve put some thought into this. Sadly, that thought was “Hmm, David liked martial arts. He starred in a TV series and a Quentin Tarantino film about them. Maybe we could say he was practising an ancient Shaolin meditation technique? No, that’s ridiculous. Aha: Kung Fu assassination squads!”
Dear Sydney Morning Herald, what could possibly be going on here?
“David Carradine was murdered by a secret kung fu sect, his family has claimed. Relatives of the Kill Bill star believe he was “assassinated” because he was trying to expose an underworld martial arts group. Speaking on the Larry King Live US talk show, attorney Mark Geragos said: ‘David was very interested in investigating and disclosing secret societies – absolutely.’
We’re no experts, but we just can’t buy this story. For a start, everyone knows ninjas kill people using knives, throwing-stars and slow-motion flying kicks. And for a finish, Carradine’s ex-wife filed for divorce partly on the grounds of his demands for:
“…deviant sexual behaviour which was potentially deadly”
Nice try. But let us at least hope that the world remembers David Carradine as the charming young star of stylish, action-packed blockbuster films.
And definitely not as a pensioner who died while tugging away at himself.
Narrative says
Does someone masturbate in a closet? Somebody must have hung the victim and put him where he was found. What are the results of securing evidences in the hotel room? What’s about witnesses? When was he last seen? With whom was he last seen? With
whom was David in contact? Could not find any disclosures and reporting about such eminent questions. I’d strongly assume homicide.
Mike says
David Carradine’s ex-wife, Marina Anderson, has written a book about his death called “David Carradine: The Eye of My Tornado”. It will be interesting to see what the book says about the cause of the actor’s death.
Paul David Gates says
I WOULD SAY IT WAS MURDER! I DO NOT THINK DAVID CARRADINE WAS REALLY INTO “KINKY SEX” I AM NOT SOME OBSESSED FAN, BUT I KNOW WHAT KNOW, AND I HAVE ACCUSED OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHEN I WAS ONLY 7 YEARS OLD, UNTIL MY MOM FOUND OUT WHO IT REALLY WAS.
I not only know how and why David Carradine died, I have been a victim, even though I am not dead, much more than he was. The torture I have been through in my life is absolutely indescribable. The torture started when 3 people, with false names, became a part of our family in the 1950’s, in Florida. Not only did they use false names, but one of them had been trained as a STASI agent by Fidel Castro himself. I know that sounds too incredible to be true, but I have absolute proof that everything, and whole lot more is true. It seems a shame that a country that prides itself on human rights can allow slavery of children to occur, but it did and I am living proof of that happening. Not only am I living proof of that, but Neil Donnelly, a Marine Corps Hero, with a purple Heart from the Vietnam war, who was in Thailand, has fooled the United States into believing that he is a hero. When he lived in our house at 5251 SW 4th Court, he not only used a note our mom, who had just passed away, had written for my biological brother, that was 4 years older than me, he drew a triangle on my t-shirt like the ones on gypsies clothing when they were put in the concentration camps in Germany on my t-shirt, then said it was a part of a women’s body, if you can imagine that being the issue. We always think in terms that think the only thing is associated with a person being a “Child Molester” is something to do with sex. Neil used the note that asked my brother, while Neil claimed to be from an orphanage in Boston, along with his so called adopted mother, and another person that was 2 years older than Neil, her name is Pam. Eleanor, their so called adopted mother was in reality their chauffeur because Neil was too young to drive a car. They came to Florida because of an issue that I do not think you would understand, but they knew who I was, and where the Gates household was, and it was not due to telephone call that they knew that at the time.
They came to Florida, and had the nerve, like ghouls, to wait until our mom died, and talk Mike into believing that since I supposedly knew who they were that they needed to be a part of our household. I did not know who they were, and since they went their own ways, after our dad allowed them into our household by mistake, I have not heard from them at all, even though I know where they live.
In the last 18 years i have been through a nightmare, that I would not wish on anyone. But, up until now, am still alive. There used to be a site on the internet that really described what I have been through but it is no longer, at least as far as I know up. The site was http://www.totse.org. The totse stands for Temple of the Screaming Electron. They used to call Adolph Hitler the SCREAMER in the physical sense in the 1920’s. They created a four dimensional Hitler in the form of Temple of the Screaming Electron.
Like I said at the beginning I know exactly why David Carradine died, and it is sort of related to the show he used to be star of. The show was called Kung Fu. There was an episode that was related to book called “Zen in the Art of Archery” The person that came to Florida,and had singing and dancing talent, but had another personality, that to this day most people don’t as far as I know know about, and was jokingly mentioned in the LIFE magazine article about Gillis Patrick Flanagan. It says in the article that Patrick Flanagan was a “Twist champion and a Gymnist. Neil had a picture in our house of him dancing the “TWIST” with a polynesian waitress at a polynesian restuarant.
So, like I said Neil did torture me using the note our mom left behind asking my brother to wake me up for school. He used the note, and I don’t even know how he knew the note existed, and would wait until everyone else was asleep at night and run feathers over my ears, and put bruises all over my arms. Neil could also sing, and he probably could have been a talent. But, Neil to this day, is the type of person that is so paranoid that he has to get you before you get him. The movie PSYCHO was written about Neil. The Bates motel, you know not the Gates household. But Neil was always looking outward like Adolph Hitler for a scapegoat, rather than looking inward for answers.
So, as what seems to be as crazy as it sounds Neil’s life is tied up with David Carradine’s life as well as mine. I am not insane, and there has never been a doctor that has thought that, and I am not the type of person that is so crazy that he can trick even a psychologist into believing he is sane when he is not.
In the last 15 years I attempted to hang myself because of what I was forced to go through, and what I continue to go through to this day. I am sure that I am risking having myself go on trial, or imprisoned for what I am saying. But I think it is important and I am not trying to get attention have my name mentioned.I guarantee that this is not a joke. The part of the body that David Carradine had a rope wrapped around is the reason I continue to be tortured even at this very minute.
There is the issue of someone else related to Thailand that continues to be an issue to this day. It is the issue of John Mark Carr. The reason it is the issue is that no one that was a “child molester” would write a ransom note stating he wanted the exact amount of John Ramsey’s bonus. Why did that person supposedly live in Thailand? Why hasn’t the DNA results been published?
nemoLowkzzz! says
Maybe He Was Masturbating to a Picture of Young Men Having intercourse, and he Doesn’t want to COME OUT THE CLOSET! & He Tied him Self Cause he Like Penetration.. You People don’t know him, So no one Can Judge him, NOT EVEN GOD!!
Paul Gates says
In the so called bible (bable) that we all read, the story goes Cain killed Abel. Maybe, the story should be Abel killed Cain. David Carradine played Cain on the show Kung Fu. If someone really committed suicide, then who are the lady boys? I would like to know where masterbation was ever mentioned related to David Carradine’s death. Who the hell are Paul and June Gibson? He was probably some sort of sex addict, right? Just like Bob Crane was some sort of sex addict. Do you remember Bob Crane he was beaten over the head with a camera tripod, and the murder is still unsolved to this day. If someone did commit suicide how could he, and why would he wrap rope around his genitals
Kim Soo says
Carradine was an embaressment to asian people who hated the fact that an anglo could and would star as a Chinese Gung Fu master. He had thosuands of fans and several enemies. Thailand killers had to disgrace him like that so that it would not be just a suicide (faked or otherwise) but had to make him seem to be a creep or freak. They would not accept anything but total disgrace in death for David. Tell me why a man that rich and well known would evn have to masturbate.
Paul Gates says
I absolutely know that David Carradine was murdered him because I know who did. The lady boys do not represent Vietnam. David Carradine did not have a sex problem, and neither did Bob Crane, who was beaten to death with a camera tripod, and neither do I.
Paul D says
I absolutely know that David Carradine was merdered because “THAI” pronouced TY is not the same as “TY” even though they are pronounced the same. So, (THAI)LAND is not the same as BET(TY), as in Bet(ty) Louise Gates