I personally don't see this as a case for the FBI, but J. Edgar Hoover might have wanted to go balls to the wall with it:
The family of American actor David Carradine has asked the FBI to help investigate his death after his body was found in a hotel closet in Thailand's capital with a rope tied to his neck, wrist and genitals.Carradine's family does not believe he committed suicide and is troubled by conflicting accounts about the circumstances of his death, Mark Geragos, an attorney for brother Keith Carradine, told CNN's Larry King late Friday.
"They want an investigation," Geragos said. "I would think that the people in Bangkok would want to support an investigation and allow the FBI to go over there and assist in the investigation so we can get the answers to the questions."
Thai police said Saturday they have not been contacted by the FBI.
Police initially said Carradine's body was found "naked, hanging in a closet," causing them to suspect he committed suicide, though no suicide note was found.
On Friday, however, police said the actor may have died from accidental suffocation or heart failure after revealing that he was found with a rope tied around his neck and penis — leading to speculation that Carradine may have engaged in a dangerous form of sex play.
Can't imagine why the family would want it publicized either way, but the ways of B-list acting dynasties are not for me to fathom.
Posted by floridacracker at June 6, 2009 03:15 PMSure is a hellava way to check out! Very undignified! The worse possible scenerio! TMZ the online rag mag said that a former wife divorced the actor many years ago because of his obcession with "dangerous" sexual practices. She said one day he would kill himself. well, guess what! He did!
You would think after all these years he would be over twisted stuff like that! Even if I was dead I would be so embarassed if I was him! I see you Mr Carradine, You cant hide from me, God says, I saw what you did! What a waste, what a waste!
That boy was in need of a head doctor for sure!
Posted by: Sheila at June 6, 2009 07:24 PMChokes me up...not as much as David, but still...
:(
I guess he figured, if he figured at all, rather than letting something a bit lower down do the figuring, that if he'd made it to 72 without hurting himself, he was safe. More fool he.
I guess the family just doesn't want to accept that he would do something so dumb, and dangerous, and gross.
Gives a whole new meaning to 'Come and Go Blues'.....
Posted by: mike the bike at June 7, 2009 08:45 PMCome on, let's not get all hung up in the sily puns!
I mean, how did we get roped into this?
it also gives a whole new meaning to "I wouldn't be caught dead..."
Posted by: nancy at June 7, 2009 09:29 PMWhat a nutty thing to do.
Posted by: Donnah at June 7, 2009 09:32 PMAlso gives new meaning to the phrase "Caught with your pants down."
Oh well, before the lights went out for good, I'm sure old Dave was having a ball.
Gives a whole new meaning to "choking the chicken."
Posted by: Donnah at June 7, 2009 10:12 PMHe must've been pretty cocky to think he could keep on doing that and not have it end badly eventually.
What a jerk.
He'd been famous for so long, guess he just got tired of beating off the paparazzi.
Posted by: Donnah at June 7, 2009 11:06 PMGives whole new meaning to "on the down low"!
Posted by: cindy at June 8, 2009 10:16 AMI wonder if he puposely went to Bangkok for this.
Posted by: Lisa at June 8, 2009 04:51 PMBangkok is the place to go for gentlemen with, shall we say, eccentric sexual habits.
Posted by: Starla Darling at June 8, 2009 04:58 PMConfucius say: "Man who turn sideways in airport turnstile going to Bangkok." I know that's just awful but I had to share.
Posted by: Lisa at June 8, 2009 05:23 PMI think for this all you really need is a rope and some alone time.
Kevin Gilbert, the guy who wrote Sheryl Crow's first album died this way too. And the INXS singer. And some English MP, but English MPs are always up to something. It's like you're just waiting for the other shoe to drop with those English MP guys.
Posted by: Donnah at June 8, 2009 06:08 PMMichael Hutchence also apparently beat himself up beforehand; he had a broken nose and cuts and bruiss all over him.
Albert Dekker, an American actor turned some sort of minor politician, turned up dead in his shower, hanging from the curtain rod with his hands bound, wearing ladies' lingerie and with various obscenities written on himself in lipstick.
Some people just get all out of whack.
I guess we beat this to death.....
Posted by: mike the bike at June 9, 2009 10:24 PMNew slogan for the tourism industiry:
"Come to Bangkok, if you're fit to be Thai-ed!"
gives a whole new meaning to "out of the closet".
Posted by: nancy at June 11, 2009 06:19 AMOne night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
"Ouch" springs immediately to mind...
Posted by: panhandle cooter at June 14, 2009 11:41 PMHe kind of gave a stiff, wooden performance, didn't he? That's where the "ouch" came from.
Posted by: Starla Darling at June 14, 2009 11:57 PM