In a bombshell announcement, David Carradine’s death by hanging was more likely a disastrous result of auto-erotic asphyxiation than a suicide, Thai police said Friday.

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“There was a rope tied around his neck and another rope tied to his genitals, and the two ropes were tied together and they hung in the closet,” Lieutenant General Worapong Siewpreecha said, the Times Online reported. “Under these circumstances we cannot be sure that he committed suicide.”

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Siewpreecha said crew members, working on the Kung Fu actor’s new film Stretch, told police “drank beer from morning until evening the day before he was found dead”. (Photo: WENN)