There has been a lot of news about photographs published by the Thai Rath tabloid that reportedly show David Carradine as he was found after his death. Word is going around the Internet that they are fake, or a reenactment.
Below is the front page of the Thai Rath tabloid with what appears to be a dark-haired man hanging in a closet that they purport to be Carradine:
According to the New York Daily News, friends say that Carradine enjoyed autoerotic asphyxiation, a sexual practice that often involves tying a rope around the neck. On TMZ.com, Brenty Turvey, a forensic psychiatrist, said that it is easy to bind yourself:
Turvey says it’s simple for someone to tie rope around his/her hands, by loosely tying the hands in front — then raising them up to tighten.
Turvey says undoing the knot is easy as well, allowing for a quick escape.
That would make the photo consistent with accidental erotic asphyxiation. However, according to the Thaindian News:
The photographs displayed by the Bangkok tabloid show a man with dark skin and black hair, naked and suspended by a rope tied around his wrists and attached to a clothes bar inside what appears to be a cheap closet. A bed is less than one meter away from the closet and the room has a wooden floor – all hardly the stuff of a suite in a prestigious hotel such as the Swissotel Nai Lert Park.
Police reports have said Carradine was found with a shoelace tied around his penis and a rope around his neck. An earlier claim that the dead actor’s hands were tied has been refuted by Thai police.
Carradine’s representative stated that his hands were tied not above his head, but behind his back.
The photographs might not be real. Carradine’s family strongly dispute that idea that he may have committed suicide and they also reject the autoerotic asphyxia theory.
The small glimpse of the room layout does not look like the Swissotel Nai Lert Park rooms, except that they do share similar dark paneling and light shades next to the bed:
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I doubt the photo is real.
Interesting theory on his death though. I only know of one accidental erotic asphyxiation here in my area.
Photo doesn’t look real.
I remembered trying both the choking game and AEA in middle and high school.
My prayers are with David Carradine and his family.
Why do people care so much about this whole autoerotic shit anyways. If he liked it, it was his game. The man was an excellent actor and he is dead unfortunately. R.I.P. David.
Twitter: davidshankbone
says:
Sandy, I think people are always interested in what is different from themselves. Autoerotic asphyxiation is a stupefying way to get off, as it has the potential to kill you. It makes sense people are fascinated and interested in this aspect of Carradine; he has given them a public face to a practice few could comprehend wanting to try.
People care or more accurately are interested because they are just that….people. It’s part of the human condition to be fascinated by unusual events. How he died in no way takes away from his acting. They are two separate stories.
Ummm….hello….David Carradine didn’t have black hair….he was 72, and the man has been grey haired for a while now…makes me sick that anyone is even acknowledgeing these as real. My heart and prayers go out to his family.
this photo has to be fake. the person hanging in the closet has a darker hair color. davids hair is gray.
Twitter: davidshankbone
says:
I think it’s fake, too, but not based upon that (He could be wearing a wig, and the quality of the photo is terrible). I think most telling is that the decor in the room doesn’t match the decor of his fancy hotel, with the exception of the lampshades. It looks like a pretty dingey room.