Since David Carradine’s family refused to believe that he died of a suicide, a second autopsy was performed on the late actor, who died in Bangkok on June 4. The results of the second autopsy show that he died of asphyxiation.
“The cause of death was asphyxiation, an inability to breathe, now why that happened is still what we’re working on,” said Dr. Michael Baden, hired by Carradine’s family to perform the second autopsy.
These results exclude the theory that the 72-year-old actor died of suicide. “He didn’t die of natural causes, and he didn’t die of suicidal causes from the nature of the ligatures around the body, so that leaves some kind of accidental death,” he said.