The guy always marched to the beat of his own drummer … or is it flutist? Somehow, it’s no surprise his death would be shrouded in mystery.

David Carradine, who originally came to fame in the “Kung Fu” TV series and was known better to the current generation as “Bill” in the “Kill Bill” movies, was found dead this morning his Bangkok, Thailand hotel room. He was 72.

Carradine was always something of an odd duck, and you never really know if it was his role as Kung Fu’s Caine that changed him or if his own quirks drove the character. He very literally lived that role, reprising it for not one but two different sequels. It wasn’t until he was plucked from relative obscurity by Quentin Tarantino to play Bill that we saw him in a different role, albeit one equally strange.

Perhaps in keeping with his unusual nature, his death comes with it’s own unique trappings. The initial reports out of Thailand were of a death from natural causes, certainly not unusual for a man of 72. But the good folks at BBC had a few details the others left out:

Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and genitals on Thursday morning.

Now, it should be noted that later in the day, the online article was amended to replace “and genitals” with “and other parts of his body,” but I think we can smell what’s cooking, and it smells a lot like sexual hypoxia. Well, not literally, of course, but you know what I mean …

In any case, an unfortunate and tragic end to an heir to the Carradine acting legend.