Carradine's Widow Files Wrongful Death Suit

Hard sell.

June 4, 2010 at 4:04PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

David Carradine's death by rope in a Thailand closet was one of those sad, needless things fans and admirers prefer to forget. Remember the work, not how he went out. To be honest, I'd forgotten - but his wife has filed a wrongful death suit, and that brings the whole sorry mess up again. She's suing the production company that hired him for his last movie, because - well, you figure this out:

So if she'd knocked louder, he wouldn't have tried to conjure up dinner by slinging a rope over the closet rod. Accidental strangulation is one thing, but when it happens in the course of intentional strangulation, that's another.

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