Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

FBI offers help in Carradine investigation

|
|
 
  
File photo of David Carradine dated February 24, 2008. (UPI Photo/David Silpa) 
License photo
Published: June 7, 2009 at 1:48 PM

BANGKOK, June 7 (UPI) -- FBI officials say they have offered authorities in Thailand assistance investigating U.S. actor David Carradine's death.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimilller confirmed the U.S. agency contacted Thai authorities after agency officials met Friday with the "Kung Fu" actor's half-brother, Keith, People.com reported Saturday.

Thai authorities have yet to respond to the FBI's offer, Eimiller said.

Mark Geragos, an attorney for Keith Carradine, said his client wants authorities to thoroughly investigate his half-brother's death at a Bangkok hotel.

Carradine's body was found hanged in a hotel suite Wednesday by a maid. Thai police said ropes had been tied around the "Kill Bill" actor's throat and genitals.

Geragos told People magazine the details surrounding the actor's death have left his friends and family unable to fully grieve.

"It's hard to start the grieving process when you don't have all the information on what happened," Geragos said. "Family members, including Keith and Hayley (DuMond, Keith's companion), are frustrated and in shock."

Topics: David Carradine
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Entertainment News Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
Photoshop this multicolored specimen having a snack
Couple married for 65 years reveals secret of marital bliss: wearing matching outfits wherever they...
Behold a pale horse
Maine soft-shell lobsters are in early this year. Marine biologists require more clarified butter...
The Death List: Cars that aren't coming back for 2013. Subby will sob for Saab, the rest shall not...
Come listen to a story about a man named John / A poor farmer, barely kept his family fed / Then...