David Carradine’s Manager: ‘I Really Feel Like They Are Trying To Hide Something’

The circumstances of David Carradine’s death are under police investigation, a spokesperson for the Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, confirmed to Access Hollywood.

“The Thai police have confirmed the death of US actor Mr. David Carradine who was found dead in his room” at the hotel, the spokesperson said in a statement. “Our main focus now is to assist the Police in their investigations.”

Carradine, who was on location in Bangkok to film his latest movie, “Stretch,” was found dead in his room on Thursday morning. According to the Bangkok Post, the “Kill Bill” star — who was reportedly found with his hands tied and a rope around his neck — may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation.

“Under these circumstances we cannot be sure that he committed suicide, but he may have died while masturbating,” police chief Lt. Gen Vorapong Chiewpreecha told the newspaper. An autopsy has been completed, but no results have been disclosed as of yet.

The star’s manager, Chuck Binder, told Access on Friday that the star was an unlikely suicide candidate — and implied that police were not being forthcoming in their information.

“My gut is that he did not commit suicide,” he said. “I really feel like they are trying to hide something over there.”

He noted that he had gotten only second-hand information on some of the reports coming from the hotel.

“The information about his hands being tied– I was told that by a producer in Thailand who said that was what he was told by someone in the hotel. I don’t know if that’s true,” he said.

On Thursday, a member of the star’s management told Access that Carradine “never would have committed suicide,” adding, “it was an accidental death.”

Meanwhile, the prolific actor’s next slated project, “Portland,” mourns his loss but will move forward with pre-production.

“An actor of David Carradine’s stature behind our film meant the world to us,” executive producers Adrian Salpeter and Elizabeth Levine of Random Bench Productions told Access in a statement. “Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time.”

The film is moving forward and looking for other actors to step into Carradine’s “irreplaceable” shoes.